Example sentences of "a [noun] there had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result there had been very few scientific studies which would make their case harder to win , he said . |
| 2 | For a while there had been a feeling that they were asking the right questions and that at any moment the individual answers would shuffle themselves into a significant total . |
| 3 | For more than a decade there had been detailed debate in the industry on the best form of securing greater coordination of distribution . |
| 4 | For a month there had been a damaging public dispute between Mr Heseltine , who backed a European Consortium bid to link with Westland , the British helicopter company , and Mr Brittan , the Trade and Industry minister , who favoured an American bid . |
| 5 | And the day after Holly had been up to London to apply from the Consulate for a visa there had been the telephone call at Letterworth Engineering . |
| 6 | He had boxed her into a corner there had been no other way out of . |
| 7 | Within a year there had been a shift in the Government 's attitude towards the Corporation . |
| 8 | If a visit there had been less pressing she 'd have been very willing to cuddle down into the comfortable bed and let sleep blank out her problems for a while . |
| 9 | For a time there had been grave apprehensions on that question of inheritance . |