Example sentences of "had been [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His best friend , Simon , was one of six children and all had been members in their turn . |
| 4 | Before the War , many large consumers had generated their own electricity ( 45 per cent of industrial electricity came from self-generation in 1938 ) , and some of the larger firms , such as ICI and Ford , had been pioneers in generation technology . |
| 5 | Another twenty-seven had been students in the imperial cadet corps , the naval academy , the mathematical-navigation school or the Slav — Greek — Latin academy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So did Kiffin Rockwell , the twenty-one-year-old medical student from North Carolina , both of whose grandfathers had been officers in the Confederate Army . |
| 10 | Or had she bought this , and all the surplus food , when there had been money in the joint account ? |
| 11 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 12 | She had come all the way from Wales , where she had been Second in the Bwbachod Six of her Brownie Guide Pack . |
| 13 | After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 | There had been fears in Lithuania that Poland might claim part of its territory , including Vilnius . |
| 18 | Many of these teachers had been learners in the original literacy campaign . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yes , there had been women in my life before I met you =M very few men in their thirties have lived like a monk . |
| 21 | On the supply side , there had been underinvestment in many areas of primary production for some years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | While in the 1930s the CEB men had been leaders in advocating larger-scale power generation , with the undertakings sometimes dragging their feet , by the time of nationalisation they pinned their faith more on the benefits of standardising on 30MW and 60MW sets as a means of both cutting costs and overcoming the capacity shortage ( see pp. 24–5 , above ) . |
| 25 | The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed . |
| 26 | The windows were barred with white painted shutters covered with curtains of crimson velvet , her feet rested on a Turkey carpet and the walls were as thickly covered with pictures as if they had been pages in a stamp collection . |
| 27 | Then I heard Dan Rather saying there had been explosions in Israel . |
| 28 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 29 | Until this time , the mainstay of treatment for syphilis had been mercury in some form or other , either by internal administration or in the form of unctions . |
| 30 | There had been reports in the pages of the Cambrian newspaper about Miss Grenfell attending the Race Ball in the Assembly Rooms . |