Example sentences of "of [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 2 | By 1341 the Forest of Dean had been diminished by a quarter , and the warden 's farm was reduced from £160 to £120 . |
| 3 | In 1736 the Conservator and Supervisor of the Forest of Dean had reported to the Treasury , ‘ Within the last thirty years those Elections [ of Forest officers ] had been neglected , the Courts discontinued , and offenders left unpunished . ’ |
| 4 | The mile of shining water between him and the Forest of Dean had been devoid of a single ripple . |
| 5 | Les Wheeler , his wife Shirley and twin daughters Ceri and Amey from Pillowell in the Forest of Dean had to endure the full razzmatazz of the pools publicity machine before they found out exactly how much they 'd won . |
| 6 | Where the Colonel Generals , where the Colonels , where the Majors of Headquarters had failed , idiot buggers , there was the opportunity for an ambitious Captain to succeed . |
| 7 | Once the redistribution of moisture had taken place , the hops were swept into ‘ pockets ’ . |
| 8 | In view of the threat of expulsions contained in these circulars , Labour supporters of Unity had to reconsider their position . |
| 9 | Generations of subservience had taught the humble Irish not to answer any question that might get them into trouble . |
| 10 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 11 | All thoughts of tiredness had now gone as I prepared myself for breakfast and quickened my pace towards the barn . |
| 12 | Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers . |
| 13 | It appeared from the poor showing of the pro-CPSU communists in the elections that a surprisingly large number of Russians had voted for Sajudis-backed candidates , or had boycotted the voting in overwhelmingly Russian-populated constituencies where only a pro-CPSU communist was standing . |
| 14 | The Zollverein is historically unique because previous unions of states had been military , not economic . |
| 15 | The UDC s contribution to the politics of progress had more to do with the transmission of old values than with any radical new thinking . |
| 16 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 17 | He did not say whether two sets of values had arisen in the English context . |
| 18 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 19 | In the 36th minute only the alertness of Lukic had prevented McCoist from scoring . |
| 20 | Hitherto , the ecumenical gatherings had chiefly been concerned with theological issues , even if matters of discipline such as the manner of determining the date of Easter had crept in . |
| 21 | Sadly , the bar had closed and the staff had long since departed so the celebration pint of bitter had to be put on ice for another day . |
| 22 | Archbishop William Temple when headmaster of Repton had a complete mental recall of Bradshaw and would set as an imposition for an errant boy the best way of travelling from Great Yarmouth to Exeter or Penrith to Ipswich without touching London , complete with changes and times . |
| 23 | The whole network of support had failed and the Government had to recognize its share of the responsibility , he said . |
| 24 | There had been an inn years ago but lack of support had closed its doors . |
| 25 | A party whose main base of support had been the , the unions and the er union confederations which grew up in industrial cities like Shanghai becomes a party whose main power base is its own Red Army , its own army of peasant guerillas which it itself has created . |
| 26 | Created by the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist movement in 1964 , in recent years Komeito 's level of support had fallen in the aftermath of a series of financial scandals involving the LDP . |
| 27 | One of the chief reasons for its loss of support had been the protracted struggle between Prime Minister David Lange and his Finance Minister , Roger Douglas , the architect of Labour 's laissez faire approach to the economy , colloquially known as " Rogernomics " . |
| 28 | This division of support had potentially serious consequences as it was commonly accepted that all four constituent groups had to be united behind a single candidate if the Democrats were to regain of the White House . |
| 29 | Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt . |
| 30 | Signs of change had been evident within various protest movements , like the Teetotallers , from the 1850s when they realized that without state action they could not achieve their goals . |