Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instrument zu singen gesetzt ( Königsberg , 1638–50 ) which enjoyed enormous popularity ; by 1652 the first five Teile had reached their third or fourth editions and a number of separate songs had been republished in other people 's miscellanies . |
| 2 | Last night Hampshire police confirmed that two fans had been charged with public order offences . |
| 3 | But Mr Foster said yesterday he knew of situations in other parts of the country where waiting lists had been reduced by unacceptable tactics . |
| 4 | If these ten poorest readers had been selected for remedial teaching during the six-month period a ( probably ) spurious improvement in spelling would be inferred . |
| 5 | I remembered reading about the protests over Club Row just north of Spitalfields ' market , where a street market in animals had been held since Victorian times . |
| 6 | She found that muddy brown eyes had been replaced by alert blue ones . |
| 7 | The eyes had been used to great effect as Queen Gertrude , Imogen , Portia , and Lady Macbeth . |
| 8 | On Sept. 18 it was reported that in the previous week five truck drivers had been killed by armed groups , probably of the Afar clan , on the road from the port of Assab to Addis Ababa . |
| 9 | The United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which drew its support from the Hawiye clan of central Somalia , launched an offensive in late December , while the largest rebel group , the northern-based Somali National Movement ( SNM ) , dismissed as " futile " a government announcement on Dec. 26 that political parties had been legalized with immediate effect . |
| 10 | Now computers had been added to natural incompetence , and Cyril the Systems was on the edge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 11 | Only the Jews were descended from Adam and only the Jews had been contaminated with original sin as a consequence of Eve 's disobedience . |
| 12 | I was no closer to knowing the selection procedure , as my conversations about this with the other recruits had been based on mere speculation and gossip . |
| 13 | Supporters had been split into regional groups throughout the country , and John and Joan Bohanna 's Merseyside Regional Group directly confronted Pilger , telling him that ‘ ultimate NoS editorial control rests not with the editor , or the Board of Directors , but the Founders ’ , and the editor would have to do their bidding at all times . |
| 14 | They alleged widescale vote rigging and claimed that the names of opposition supporters had been excluded from electoral lists . |
| 15 | Last-minute concessions had been made to disaffected groups to win their support . |
| 16 | However , after doubts had been expressed by certain of Nissan 's executives , this proposal was drastically scaled-down . |
| 17 | It was reported on Sept. 6 that three Iranians had been arrested on similar charges in Istanbul . |
| 18 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 19 | He claimed that AFPFL demands had been conceded in full . |
| 20 | It became clear last night that the separation agreement was only reached after her demands had been met in full . |
| 21 | There was anger on the streets among ethnic Albanians : the schools had been divided between Albanian and Serbian children and Albanian politicians had been stripped of power . |
| 22 | If the neutrons had been produced by thermonuclear fusion in a stationary plasma the neutrons ' energy spectra would have been the same in both cases , peaked at 2.45 MeV . |
| 23 | The draft programme was published in the central press for public discussion in October 1985 ; altogether , Gorbachev told the 27th Congress the following February , six million responses had been received from ordinary citizens , raising a whole variety of issues . |
| 24 | The shoes had been painted with bold unmixed colours and the best way of translating the sense of that to the painting was to do the same . |
| 25 | Local authority planning policies might require an applicant to demonstrate first that a proposed development required a coastal location and , if this was the case , to show that recyclable coastal sites had been considered before undeveloped or partly developed coastal sites were targeted . |
| 26 | It was announced in February that since the adoption of the law on joint ventures in January 1989 [ see p. 37012 ] 2,799 permits had been issued for foreign companies , which had contributed US$374,000,000 in initial capital . |
| 27 | One of the birds flapped towards a tall , dead elm , whose limbs had been stripped by fierce winds until only two remained , like gnarled horns , rising from the top of the trunk . |
| 28 | The wine belonged to Herr A. Einhorn and the bottles had been dressed with forged Jockey Club labels . |
| 29 | Additional models had been proposed for Northern Europe where a classic sequence of glaciations and interglacials had been proposed based on the investigation of sequences on the North European Plain and in Scandinavia ; in the British Isles ; and in central North America ( Bowen , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | They were standing expectantly by the main gate of Wandsworth prison , a building which gave the impression of an Italian Renaissance fortress whose square towers and long cell blocks had been reconstructed in grimy industrial brick . |