Example sentences of "there had [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even if there had been tons of it , a fourth or fifth share could n't have amounted to five hundred pounds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many of the accidents were foreseen , there had been warnings about fires in Tubes , how quickly ferries sank , and the hazards at football grounds . |
| 8 | He claims he would not have started if there had been warnings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 11 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 12 | Then I heard Dan Rather saying there had been explosions in Israel . |
| 13 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 14 | From the late seventeenth century there had been complaints of increasing wickedness , crime and disorder . |
| 15 | In many parts of the country there had been complaints that no satisfactory geological maps were available . |
| 16 | Eggs had not been one of the things left by her unknown benefactor and there had been complaints about the absence of toast soldiers . |
| 17 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 18 | There had been times , after all , while he 'd been serving his stretch in prison that he really had wondered whether he had hallucinated it all ; wondered whether he was losing his mind . |
| 19 | There had been times , especially after a long busy night at the club , when she had been severely tempted to just throw in the towel and thumb through the Yellow Pages to find the nearest painter and decorator to hand . |
| 20 | Louis Gerstner clearly decided that discretion was the better part of valour when it came to facing the blue rinse brigade at the annual meeting in Tampa , Florida yesterday , and just before the meeting , IBM Corp announced that its diminished dividend would be unchanged at 54 cents a share for the first quarter ; there had been fears that the company would cut it again . |
| 21 | Indeed , during the 1950s there had been fears that there might be a liquidity shortage unless the USA took steps to increase the supply of dollars . |
| 22 | There had been fears about his position after he met namesake Albert Reynolds , the Eire Premier , a few weeks ago . |
| 23 | The French Foreign Minister , Roland Dumas , said on Aug. 22 that there was " as yet " no evidence of official Iranian involvement ; there had been fears that the incident , coming on top of the recent difficulties in resolving a financial dispute between France and Iran [ see p. 38363 ] , could jeopardize a planned visit to Iran by French President Mitterrand . |
| 24 | There had been fears in Lithuania that Poland might claim part of its territory , including Vilnius . |
| 25 | There had been fears that increasingly vociferous Russian nationalism would cause the conflict to escalate . |
| 26 | There had been fears that construction of the tunnel in the scenic Aspe valley , and the increased traffic it would bring , would threaten wildlife , including the 10 remaining Pyrenean bears [ see ED 62 , passim ] . |
| 27 | There had been fears that the entry of SeaCat into the cross-Channel route would mean more companies competing for business in a static market . |
| 28 | There had been fears for her life but she had recovered . |
| 29 | There had been fears that allegations of British Conservative support for ‘ dirty tricks ’ against Mr Clinton during the American election campaign last year may also cast a cloud over the Prime Minister 's visit . |
| 30 | There had been fears the scheme had collapsed . |