Example sentences of "[that] there had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw no trouble at the match , but I heard on TV afterwards that there had been fights in Waverly station before and after the match |
| 2 | Responding to the complaints , Mandela , who had previously acknowledged that there had been abuses , said that all the allegations would be thoroughly investigated . |
| 3 | A US official said troops opened fire several times , but he did not confirm that there had been casualties . |
| 4 | A US official said troops opened fire several times , but he did not confirm that there had been casualties . |
| 5 | The fact that there had been unlawfulness should not mean that a remedy should be denied . |
| 6 | In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 . |
| 7 | There were suggestions that Bond Corporation executives had been under regular surveillance and that there had been interference with telephone communications , Mr Lucas said . |
| 8 | Her new owner suspected that there had been difficulties , so decided to start Jasmine 's training right from the beginning again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A British Rail spokesperson in York confirmed that there had been problems with the Settle and Carlisle . |
| 11 | A South African foreign affairs spokesman said on Jan. 5 that there had been contacts with Soviet representatives on a regular basis , " for example on the Namibian issue " , and " should we wish to pursue talks we would do so directly " , with no need for Hungarian or any other mediation . |
| 12 | A few admitted that there had been excesses . |
| 13 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 14 | It was apparent that there had been money at all periods except the most modem , and taste at some . |
| 15 | There were accusations of plagiarism , of cheating , of fabricating data ; there was name-calling in public as Fleischmann and Pons were called ‘ incompetent ’ and ‘ deluded ’ ; there were deep politics , paranoia and , by the end of the year , threats of writs being issued against the editor of a leading scientific journal and against one scientist whose experiments suggested that there had been errors in Pons ' laboratory . |
| 16 | In some cases she suggested that there had been coalescence of settlements , with the abandonment of the earlier pattern of hamlets and combining of lands and holdings . |
| 17 | The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book , Arbeau , Frescobaldi , Froberger — in those years people suddenly realized that there had been music before 1700 . ’ |
| 18 | I could honestly tell him that there had been improvements . |
| 19 | In my judgment she was entitled to consider the welfare interests of the children after the court had found that there had been acquiescence on the part of the father within the meaning of article 13 ( a ) . |
| 20 | Sheikh Saad , the crown prince and prime minister , admitted that there had been abuse of human rights in the early days of the country 's liberation but implied that , with the regime back in control , all was well . |
| 21 | The story quoted him as saying there was medical evidence which showed that there had been abuse . |
| 22 | Knill said that there had been progress in collaboration with HEIs over responsive mode funding and with NERC 's institutes . |
| 23 | Since each stratum was accompanied by its fossils , it appeared that there had been animals upon the Earth for millions of years . |
| 24 | But he said Yates denied taking steroids and that there had been irregularities in the testing procedures . |
| 25 | Ballot results in 32 out of 120 constituencies were annulled after the first round of voting in legislative elections on Sept. 16 ; the second round , scheduled for Sept. 23 , was suspended after the government acknowledged that there had been irregularities at a number of voting centres . |
| 26 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 27 | While it conceded that there had been arrests , the government rejected the other allegations as " groundless " . |
| 28 | If word reached Meredith Putt that there had been witnesses to his crime Seb would be in great danger . |
| 29 | The rest I left out there with the bones of prehistoric animals , as a sign for future generations that there had been civilisation in the Americas . |
| 30 | This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it . |