Example sentences of "there had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there had been Paul 's breakdown , and Nathan Holland had been invaluable there also ; she would have run mad without him . |
| 2 | There had been love . |
| 3 | On June 11 it was announced that nine death sentences had been decreed in the southern town of Shiraz , where there had been disturbances after security forces acted against disabled war veterans holding a rally on April 15 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There had been speculation over his future after he was dropped by the South-West . |
| 6 | There had been speculation Allied-Lyons would clinch the purchase of the Whitbread operation by teaming with its existing partners Suntory of Japan — whose liqueurs and spirits Allied already markets in the US . |
| 7 | While Chaovalit 's own position had remained unresolved , however , there had been speculation that Chatichai ( who then held the Defence portfolio himself ) would block Suchinda 's candidature with a nomination of his own . |
| 8 | Regarding Afghanistan ( on which there had been speculation that an agreement on a ceasefire was imminent , in view of recent political developments in the country and an unexpected visit by President Najibullah to Moscow in the week preceding the Irkutsk talks ) , both sides agreed on the need for elections , but remained at odds over the transition process . |
| 9 | There had been speculation that soldiers alleged to have been involved in the Tchin-Tabaradene massacre of perhaps hundreds of Tuareg dissidents in May 1990 [ see pp. 37703 ; 37811-12 ] , now fearing justice , might launch a pre-emptive mutiny . |
| 10 | There had been speculation over the candidacy since the SPD 's defeat in the 1990 general election and Engholm 's election as party chair the following May [ see pp. 37904-05 ; 38199 ] . |
| 11 | There had been speculation that the group might be following a secret agenda to regain total power , the agency noted . |
| 12 | Oh , there had been speculation that Scawsby was wrong and the Scotsman had died because of some strange seizure . |
| 13 | There had been speculation that |
| 14 | There had been speculation that Mr Patten would miss a self-imposed deadline and postpone publication of the legislation to allow negotiations with Beijing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Shildon said mail order lingerie was an area the business section had too long ignored , Rain insisted that knickers were gossip column fodder and Harbury remarked that it could probably be shown there had been offences under the Post Office Act . |
| 17 | There had been upsets , rows , false starts ; but if the progress had been sometimes dialectical , zig-zagging through arguments , rather than straightforward , it had undoubtedly happened . |
| 18 | Telling Luke had given her no satisfaction ; there was no feeling of well-being or sweet revenge , just a cold , forlorn emptiness , where once there had been hope . |
| 19 | There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal has taken the matter a step further in Shomer v B&R Residential Lettings Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 2 , by holding that in making the comparison with a hypothetical sick man , all relevant circumstances must be taken into account so that where , as in this case , there had been misconduct by the pregnant woman , the correct comparison was with a sick man who had also been guilty of misconduct . |
| 21 | Even if there had been tons of it , a fourth or fifth share could n't have amounted to five hundred pounds . |
| 22 | In their personal lives there had been parallels that had drawn them close and formed a bond between them ; not least the loss of both their wives some ten years back . |
| 23 | Many of the accidents were foreseen , there had been warnings about fires in Tubes , how quickly ferries sank , and the hazards at football grounds . |
| 24 | He claims he would not have started if there had been warnings . |
| 25 | There had been plans to introduce a separate currency , in the form of Soviet roubles stamped with a letter " U " ( Ukraine ) for purchasing basic goods , but it was claimed that the Soviet authorities had thwarted the plans at the last minute , forcing the reintroduction of coupons instead . |
| 26 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 27 | There had been concern about his progress at the same stage as there now was for Balbinder 's . |
| 28 | There had been concern that ETA might seek to strike at the Expo 92 Universal Exhibition in Seville , held from April 20 to Oct. 12 , or at the Olympic Games in Barcelona ( July 25-Aug. 9 ) . |
| 29 | There had been concern that while negotiations ground on the playing side of the club was suffering . |
| 30 | Although he did n't actually say there had been competition , the implication was very strong . ’ |