Example sentences of "there had [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris explained with rapidly diminishing patience that some of the Argentinian officers had received their training at Sandhurst ; his brother had served in the Scots Guards on Mount Tumbledown and had said that the Argentinians they had confronted there had been good , professional soldiers . |
| 2 | Only last Friday there had been great excitement over Janice 's eighth birthday party . |
| 3 | That may be so , but when I first knew them there had been radical changes . |
| 4 | During the wars themselves there had been considerable disruption , but by 1785 trade had fully recovered . |
| 5 | In days gone by there had been little differences between the members of the party on the war policy , but the war was now over and they wanted to unite all their forces … |
| 6 | For reasons which are none to clear there had been little , if any , pressure on Aldus from the existing users to form such a group and it was felt that a need was emerging for a secondary level of support for the program . |
| 7 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 8 | The Zoo lay under a bitter stormy sky , the bars of the cages seeming even more black against it than they were and the leafless trees more bleak There had been thick snow the previous week , the final throes of winter , and then it had thawed leaving dampness and mud everywhere . |