Example sentences of "there had been " in BNC.
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| 31 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 32 | But he said Yates denied taking steroids and that there had been irregularities in the testing procedures . |
| 33 | As a result there had been very few scientific studies which would make their case harder to win , he said . |
| 34 | There had been few expectations that the Chancellor would announce a significant change of course , but disappointment that Mr Lawson said nothing new on monetary policy sent sterling 0.50 pfennigs lower to close at DM2.9562 . |
| 35 | But there had been no sign since Tiananmen Square that the Chinese had been in the least influenced by the disapproval of the West . |
| 36 | There had been several German counter attacks on the Commando positions around the village during the past three days . |
| 37 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 38 | Jock laughingly informed me that when he had arrived in the area there had been a short quiet spell . |
| 39 | There had been a lot of activity in and around Brigade H.Q It appears that the enemy in front of the Commando positions has started to pull out , possibly due to the Allied advance in the Caen area about ten miles from here . |
| 40 | There was no volte-face here as there had been on religion . |
| 41 | The deputy commander of the first artillery battalion reported that all its cell members had been so busily engaged on operations amongst the civilian population that there had been no meeting for over a month ( they were probably occupied in some of the unsavoury tasks noted earlier by our peasant soldier and his mother ) . |
| 42 | Prior to 1917 there had been two annual fairs ( iarmarki ) in the area , but only one of them had been revived in 1921 , with a quarter of its previous turnover . |
| 43 | In this rural area there had been no fewer than nineteen peasant uprisings in 1919 . |
| 44 | Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out . |
| 45 | In 1913 there had been 59,400 km. of navigable internal waterways , but this was reduced to 53,900 by 1922 , a relatively small decline compared with the railways . |
| 46 | Explosives were found in nearly all of the latter and there had been twenty fires in them between 1 November and 26 December 1921 . |
| 47 | Whereas there had been 12.8 workers for every verst of line in 1913 there were 10.4 in 1922 . |
| 48 | There had been some redistribution of income . |
| 49 | There had been steady , if slow , economic growth down to the 1970s . |
| 50 | There had been weakened competitiveness , endemic balance-of-payments problems , cyclical stop — go movements in the economy , and a falling off of the rate of capital accumulation . |
| 51 | On all sides , both in the government service directly and in its associated echelons of closed institutions , corporations , committees , and ‘ quangos ’ , there had been evidence of a loss of national confidence . |
| 52 | Merseyside or Tyneside there had been almost a general deindustrialization . |
| 53 | There had been only piecemeal policies of denationalization in 1979–83 , and indeed the Conservatives had been reluctant to replace state monopolies with privately-owned ones . |
| 54 | Since 1945 there had been repeated inquiries into the structure and finance of British local government , but until the 1970s no reform at all . |
| 55 | Even in this area , notably over the Americans ‘ Star Wars ’ defence system , there had been rifts as well as accord in the transatlantic relationship . |
| 56 | There had been several local , peripheral wars in which Britain had been engaged , notably that in Korea in 1950–3 , and a long series of conflicts to resolve colonial problems — Malaya in the late 1940s , Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s , Suez ( most traumatically ) in 1956 , Aden and Southern Arabia in the sixties . |
| 57 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | By 1979 , however , the survey found that there had been a major shift in support for privatization and public opinion remained in favour of further privatization in 1983 , and probably reflected a positive response to the Thatcher policies . |
| 60 | Although there had been a 6 per cent swing from ‘ right ’ to ‘ left ’ between the two elections the former were still in a clear majority . |