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there had & there be I ever saw a sentence in a piece of newspaper.I'm not sure about whether it is right. Could you help me? "there had no unified logo for family planning before." may I write it in another way? "there was no unified logo for family planning before." what's the difference?

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It seems as if a word is missing: "there had been no unified logo for family planning before". This means before the logo, there was none. The use of "had been" ties both events together, yet the event which happened first was probably mentioned second. You'll see from the other sentences, and the order in which the events are reported, which form to use.
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thanks all!
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"There had BEEN no unified logo for family planning before." "THEY had no unified logo for family planning before."

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