Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] been [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 2 | Earlier , there had been disturbances in Snowdrop Street in the Kirkdale area of Liverpool where it is understood one of the youths being questioned was arrested . |
| 3 | Then I heard Dan Rather saying there had been explosions in Israel . |
| 4 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 5 | There had been fears in Lithuania that Poland might claim part of its territory , including Vilnius . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | During November there had been difficulties in paying money held in hard currency accounts to foreigners , a sign of the shortage of hard currency in the union account . |
| 8 | He said there had been difficulties in some committee meetings in trying to achieve a quorum and said payments should be made as an award for members who attended . |
| 9 | There had been problems in his relationship with his girlfriend and indeed he 'd come to see my firm about six months ago because of the deterioration in that relationship and had general advice then about his legal position should there be a separation . |
| 10 | There had been reports in the pages of the Cambrian newspaper about Miss Grenfell attending the Race Ball in the Assembly Rooms . |
| 11 | There had been reports in October of intensified repression in Bhutan of ethnic Nepalese activists [ see p. 38534 ] . |
| 12 | Knill said that there had been progress in collaboration with HEIs over responsive mode funding and with NERC 's institutes . |
| 13 | On the supply side , there had been underinvestment in many areas of primary production for some years . |
| 14 | According to unofficial reports based on alleged eye-witness accounts , shortly before the passage of the reforms there had been demonstrations in several Albanian towns and an unprecedented strike [ for reports of protests in December 1989 and early January 1990 see pp. 37195-96 ] . |
| 15 | There had been changes in technology , in the workforce and in the class system . |
| 16 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 17 | In 1279 the purely clerical assemblies of both provinces made a grant to the king towards the cost of the Welsh wars , but again only after there had been discussion in diocesan assemblies . |
| 18 | There had been tears in her eyes as she crossed the road with him to Mario 's and he brought two cups of coffee and two club milk chocolate biscuits to the plastic-topped table where she waited for him . |
| 19 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Or had she bought this , and all the surplus food , when there had been money in the joint account ? |
| 22 | There had been women in Pesth , some of them attractive even by Imperial standards , but they had been the wives or concubines of Burun 's officers , or else they had belonged to the Altun . |
| 23 | Yes , there had been women in my life before I met you =M very few men in their thirties have lived like a monk . |
| 24 | This was very clear in one area where there had been redundancies in coal mining . |
| 25 | There had been suggestions in early 1991 — see p. 37992 — that Gqozo was moving towards relinquishing Ciskei 's claim to sovereignty . |
| 26 | On the previous day there had been rallies in many parts of the Russian Federation in support of Yeltsin ( who was under threat of a no confidence vote in the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies as a result of an attack on Gorbachev in February — see p. 38013 ) , and in opposition to Gorbachev and the Union Treaty . |
| 27 | She remembered there had been fire in starbursts never seen before , and explosions of noise . |
| 28 | He knew there had been alcohol in the fruit cup , and plenty of it . |
| 29 | There had been cows in that yard outside and horses stabled around . |
| 30 | There had been snow in the Store , too , sprayed on merchandise around Christmas Fayre time . |