Example sentences of "[Wh det] [art] [noun sg] had " in BNC.

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1 Lio ! rt gasped at the sudden turn of speed with which the wizard had dodged his killing stroke and , with that desperation only available to the really terrified , Rincewind uncoiled like a snake and launched himself across the space between them .
2 This was set against the teaching and learning which the Inspectorate had observed in their school sample .
3 If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt .
4 The ratio of labelled ( S phase ) to total cells ( labelling index ) for the entire crypt , as well as ratios for each of the five equal compartments into which the crypt had been divided longitudinally , was calculated for each patient .
5 Dark brown hair , dark brown eyes , and slightly sallow skin which the photographer had not bothered to disguise or retouch , having understood that this was part of her charm .
6 While there was nothing extraordinary about the goal itself , Chapman turning the ball in at the near post after Clough had driven an indirect free-kick low through a crowd of players , the circumstances in which the kick had been given were a little odd and left Everton looking apoplectic .
7 It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households .
8 Moreover , the population tended to rise fastest where the shortage of land was already acute , notably in the black-earth provinces in which the peasantry had acquired least land at Emancipation .
9 It became entwined with the separate dispute with ASLEF over flexible rostering , which the board had announced would be introduced from July with or without agreement .
10 The National Union of Public Employees said the way in which the board had acted was disgraceful and called for the resignation of all the members .
11 A woman came from the villa to which the girl had delivered the flowers .
12 Out of the disarray into which the ECSC had fallen , the High Authority attempted to move forward to a general agreement on energy , but it was not until April 1964 that the Council of Ministers eventually agreed to a document .
13 He came , looking as he always did , huge , a little untidy but with a smile of great sweetness on his lean face , from which the tan had almost completely faded .
14 That would be the case if the settlor , for instance , set up a trust under which the settlor had only a life interest in possession : monies spent on trustee expenses may be assessed on the settlor under Part XV of TA 1988 .
15 This is because as and when the trust repayed the loan which the settlor had guaranteed the settlor would benefit from being released from his guarantee obligations which he gave bounteously in the first place .
16 In Mansfield , for example , there were cases in which the clerk had put the conditions on the bail form even before the defendant 's solicitor had concluded his application for unconditional bail .
17 An officer from the PRS had visited the hotel and heard a copyright-protected piece of music being played on the TV for which the hotel had no PRS licence .
18 The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million .
19 The public , of course , had only the word of the press to guide them , and although there was more than a germ of truth in what the tabloids reported , this was by no means the first autumn in which the Prince had spent weeks without his wife and children .
20 As a mark of the recession , about which the Chancellor had said only that morning ‘ in conference ’ that ‘ we could glimpse a bright light at the end of a long tunnel ’ , the quality of the champagne had dropped a notch , while the white wine had every appearance of being a Muscadet .
21 the so-called ‘ defense line ’ to which the Ambassador had referred was in actuality merely an enumeration of those sectors in the western Pacific in which the United States held firm military commitments : i.e. our responsibilities as an occupying Power in Japan , our special interest in the Philippines as a former part of United States territory etc .
22 Nevertheless it had broken the thread by which the country had been tied to France and although it might be claimed that , as in Burma during the war or in Indonesia at the end of the war , it was a spurious independence and part of Japanese mischief making , nevertheless Vietnam was now in a formal sense independent if not exactly free .
23 Town and country planning , published in 1933 ( significantly , in view of the new interest taken in planning in the wartime years , with a second edition in 1943 and three further reprints by 1945 ) , declared that : Historic examples showed what had been achieved in the past , but Abercrombie stressed the degradation of industrialization which the country had experienced in the nineteenth century .
24 It was the first occasion on which the country had voted since Gen. Manuel Noriega was removed from power by US forces in December 1989 and replaced by President Guillermo Endara Gallimany [ see pp. 37112-13 ] .
25 After six months as Premier , however , Baldwin told the Conservative Party Conference that unemployment was the gravest domestic issue which the country had to face , and that ‘ if we go pottering along as we are we shall have grave unemployment with us to the end of time ’ .
26 Nevertheless , it was the nearest approach to a foreign ministry which the country had as yet possessed .
27 His humiliation was smaller than that to which the country had been subjected on being invaded by Napoleon in 1812 , but so was the likelihood that Russia would be able to reverse her defeat in the near future .
28 The replacement water tank and copper piping ( which the council had brought ) stolen along with more of our stuff .
29 The underlying message of the weapons , that the Woodvilles , by planning a resort to force , threatened the political stability which the council had been struggling to maintain , may , however , have been more persuasive .
30 If this process was properly carried out as a matter of public law , then the consequential private law right of the plaintiff was simply a right to the accommodation which the council had decided to be suitable .
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