Example sentences of "there had been " in BNC.

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1 In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated .
2 There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work .
3 There had been no mention of the individual 's property rights in the 1922 constitution .
4 Already in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , there had been a powerful alignment between rural cultural ethics and church teaching .
5 If an effective will to de-alienate Northern protestants in their attitudes to the republic existed , and if there had been a real change in the Irish catholic hierarchy 's position on such matters , then they would indeed have taken positive steps to support FitzGerald 's attempt to introduce such constitutional changes .
6 There had been a rash of petty thefts in the hotel and we were all warned to be vigilant .
7 She came up to me with , I noticed , slightly less bounce in her step than there had been the previous day .
8 There had been less between her and Lucy after the ‘ act ’ than ever before .
9 ( There had been no plan to illustrate the book , but Leonard talked his friend and fellow-student Freda Guttman into it , and so the book appeared with five designs from her hand ) .
10 The DTI statement was made after the brewers had agreed to arbitration for their tenants — see page 11 — and some commentators claimed that there had been a trade-off .
11 If there had been a bolt on my belay at Swanage it would not have been an environmental disaster .
12 Zobel said that there had been no approaches from Japanese companies wanting to work in the OMI .
13 The professionalized academic critic wanted to forget that there had been a time when criticism was part of literature ; and the belief that criticism or theory could be literature in themselves was perhaps part of the process of exorcizing other values and attitudes .
14 The man in charge of the fund , Brigadier Jimmy Chater , admitted that there had been problems with finding and helping Royal Warwickshire POWs , and agreed that the income from the fund exceeded the benefits paid out .
15 However , it emerged last night that a reporter from London Weekend Television unwittingly tipped off residents about the raid when he phoned contacts on the estate to ask if there had been a raid — before it had actually happened .
16 Mr Sawyer , chairman of the party 's home policy committee which co-ordinated the work of the seven policy review groups , insisted there had been no sacrifice of principles .
17 There had been changes in technology , in the workforce and in the class system .
18 A West German government spokesman said there had been technical hold-ups , but he was confident the refugees would leave soon .
19 There had been suggestions that directors had jumped the gun by putting a figure to the fraud before Coopers had completed its report .
20 Mr Meacher said provided there had been a majority ballot decision trade unions must have the full protection of the law to pursue a lawful trade dispute .
21 Asked whether he had screened the Yugoslavs before they were sent back , he said there had been no requirement under the order .
22 The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner .
23 This would stop the slaughter of the flock until there had been a full hearing in the High Court , according to Mr Richard North , an environmental health officer and technical adviser to the United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association , which is backing the nuns .
24 IF THERE had been unity , it would have been simple enough : in purely rugby terms the All Blacks are unbeatable , by Wales at any rate , so only a surge of hwyl , a tide of emotion , could hope to stop them .
25 There had been widespread fears of police violence , and water cannon had already been used against demonstrators on Saturday .
26 One senior source said : ‘ Clearly if there had been a fundamental disagreement ( between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor ) then the Government would n't have raised interest rates . ’
27 There had been no suggestion from the company 's bankers or major institutional shareholders to date that he should do so .
28 There had been considerable speculation and concern that it was about to do so .
29 Chief Supt Ian Herd , head of territorial operations within the Metropolitan Police , said that , given changes in technology and equipment , there had been a clear need to review policies which involve local emergency services responding to an incident and police co-ordinating operations .
30 The nature of the court 's work There had been a tendency largely to disregard applications as being incidental to the main task of deciding appeals and as not significant in themselves .
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