Example sentences of "in [noun] [ex0] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 2 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 3 | Earlier in March there had been a number of developments in the on-going extradition dispute . |
| 4 | In addition there had been a positive international response , including a US$400,000,000 World Bank emergency loan , to the June earthquake [ see pp. 37521-22 ] . |
| 5 | In addition there had been a report on June 30 that the Supreme Council had changed the law on the status of deputies , including a provision for annulling a deputy 's mandate if his or her activity tended to hinder the development of an independent democratic state . |
| 6 | In January there had been twenty-six fresh applications ; the marriage rate in Derry was 420 per year and there were at least one thousand applicants on the waiting list . |
| 7 | Even in winter there had been no " feel " to the soft London air and I half closed my eyes as I followed the tingle all the way down to my lungs . |
| 8 | In England there had been talk of reunion since the 1830s and some reunions had taken place . |
| 9 | In that-place there had been intricate gardens , where water wheels turned musically and water lilies bloomed moon-white , and giant goldfish floated under them . |
| 10 | At least in Jaffa there had been doors to knock upon . |
| 11 | At about the time of the settlement of the Visigoths in Aquitaine there had been unrest north of the Loire , which had been suppressed . |
| 12 | There is a theory that they brought with them the ancestors of the naturally polled northern breeds such as the Angus and Galloway , but in fact there had been polled cattle in Britain since the Iron Age and they were not necessarily imported — not even from Scandinavia , where many cattle are polled . |