Example sentences of "there had been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been strong anti-JNA feeling in Slovenia since the notorious 1988 trial of journalists and a warrant officer accused of illegally disclosing secret plans for a military clampdown against Slovene liberals [ see pp. 36374 ; 36663 ] . |
| 2 | There had been occasional brief meetings to discuss some detail of the conversion . |
| 3 | Criticism of it was by no means new : a generation earlier , in the second decade of the century , there had been various anti-enclosure measures , an Act in 1515 to prevent the conversion of land from tillage to pasture , and the establishment of commissions of enquiry by Wolsey in 1517 and 1518 to investigate the extent of enclosures . |
| 4 | If the heaving had continued , if there had been continuous restless movement , existence inside the train would have been impossible . |
| 5 | There had been intermittent heavy firing and tank movements around the presidential palace since the previous night , reportedly by dissident officers seeking to prevent Tesfaye Gebre Kidan from ordering a unilateral ceasefire — which he in fact did that evening . |
| 6 | Prior to Gorbachev 's visit there had been intense diplomatic activity between the two countries . |
| 7 | It now seems clear that there had been intense military activity near Loughgall before last night 's shooting , as one eye witness recounts : |
| 8 | There had been enormous economic advances , which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance . |
| 9 | Although there had been considerable Russian settlement in Asia before the railway age , it was not until the building of the Central Asian and Trans-Siberian lines that settlement , and with it the exploitation of minerals and other natural resources , really took off . |
| 10 | If there had been sufficient other evidence of participation he might have been properly convicted . |
| 11 | In the 1970s the Labour government supported a private member 's Bill which took over an item which would have been included in its own programme if there had been sufficient parliamentary time . |
| 12 | Savimbi , however , claiming that there had been widespread electoral fraud , threatened to resume UNITA 's guerrilla war against the MPLA-PT . |
| 13 | While confirming that there had been widespread Iraqi brutality , Middle East Watch emphasized that no proof had as yet emerged to support allegations that thousands of Kuwaitis had been executed by the Iraqis . |
| 14 | There had been widespread public opposition to the commitment of some 8,000 Pakistani troops to the United States-led coalition [ see pp. 37641 ; 37694 ] . |
| 15 | He said that there had been unprecedented civilian involvement in the coup attempt and that the government did not want its opponents to exploit the situation through the media . |
| 16 | There had been severe westerly gales a few days before , and these skuas had probably been displaced off their normal migration routes by the storm . |
| 17 | Before the decisive revolt , which provoked the full-scale Roman backlash , there had been numerous abortive insurrections extending back to Jesus 's time and , indeed , well before . |