Example sentences of "[adv] there [vb past] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack speculated that perhaps there had been some interference by a superior , or that vandals may have seen the lonely outpost as a target for action . |
| 2 | Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about . |
| 3 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 4 | The report was published in July 1986 and concluded that apparently there had been little work done on the effects of skill mix on patient services and that " a higher priority should be given by management to achieving the best value for money by the adoption of methods of allocating staffing resources more closely related to the needs of patients and ward objectives . |
| 5 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 6 | Public sector housing development had followed the guidelines more closely than the private sector , but even so there had been substantial investment in some non-key villages . |
| 7 | Half a universe away there had been another tunic cuff , the gold braid scorched and burned so that its imprint was fused on to the skin of his arm . |
| 8 | The LAS admitted yesterday there had been one case of a 25-minute delay in sending an ambulance . |
| 9 | NICHOLAS Baring ( above ) , chairman of Commercial Union , told the annual meeting yesterday there had been minimal disturbance to the insurer 's services following the IRA bomb last Friday . |
| 10 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 11 | As recent as a year ago there had been little confidence about the future for sheep with lambs selling poorly , farmers wondering whether it was worth spending money on good rams or even worth tupping their ewes . |
| 12 | I 'd sort of missed the music of the band I once knew , so maybe there had been one hippy in attendance , after all … |
| 13 | Until then there had been widespread sympathy for Polish aspirations for greater autonomy ‘ and the government had moved cautiously in that direction . |
| 14 | Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts . |
| 15 | Since then there had been several extensions built , a new accident and emergency unit , and a radiotherapy centre . |
| 16 | Suffolk was the only link and he could remember quite distinctly , on first going to Nunes , how there had been some dispute as to whether it was in Suffolk or Essex . |
| 17 | It had been a wet , raw winter , with the ground waterlogged and streams running high ; but at least there had been little snow and the hill passes were open , which was just as well for a journey to mid-Annandale . |
| 18 | Yet there had been those kisses pressed upon her own lips — and what about the embraces that had held her so closely against him ? |
| 19 | This had the advantage that ‘ lower ’ races could be dismissed as earlier steps in the advance that had survived into the present in parts of the world where there had been less stimulus for mental development . |
| 20 | From September 1992 onwards there had been increasing criticism of the government not only from the BSP but from the MRF and also from President Zhelyu Zhelev [ see p. 39105 ] . |