Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun prp] [noun pl] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tennant explained that this was partly because payments for the LVMH shares had been delayed , but added : ‘ We are not really exposed to UK interest rates . |
| 2 | Although widely described as boat people , a large number of the January arrivals had made most of the journey to Hong Kong aboard Chinese buses , only boarding boats for the last leg of their journey . |
| 3 | Yesterday , while the rest of the England players had a late brunch , Gooch broke the news to Emburey in a deeply private chat . |
| 4 | The by-elections were held in the mainly Maronite Christian area of Kesrouan where a Christian boycott of the August-September elections had been complete . |
| 5 | Nothing would weigh more heavily with many Tories than the thought that what above all had led them to throw away the 1992 election was the way the positive values and achievements of the Thatcher years had been allowed , through loss of nerve , to be obscured . |
| 6 | Most of the Ness men had been here before and , in the relatively calm water under the cliffs inside the bay of Geodha Phiall Bhain , a berthing party was soon away in the dinghy . |
| 7 | Alan Watkins of the Observer had spent August and September as a guest in Great Houses ; Michael Jones of The Sunday Times had spent six weeks in Tuscany avoiding , whenever he could , the Gilmours , Jenkinses and Mortimers ; Peter Riddell of The Times , Hugo Young , Julia Langdon , Simon Heffer , Sir Robin Day-they were all in Brighton on expenses , refreshed and ready for the fray . |
| 8 | Most of the UDC leaders had been unimpressed from the outset . |
| 9 | It was before Spain had joined the Common Market and United Biscuits ' efforts to acquire a suitable company in one of the EEC countries had come to nought . |
| 10 | The greatest period of administrative reform in the history of the Habsburg territories had come in the two decades after 1749 ( see pp. 153–4 ) ; here Joseph achieved much less than his mother . |
| 11 | Only when a Navy vessel had force-landed on one of the Manchu worlds had the deception been uncovered . |
| 12 | Until the opening of the Marlborough galleries had tended to treat artists in a patronising way , as underlings . |
| 13 | With so many moves the education of the Burrows children had been badly disrupted . |
| 14 | All but about 300 of the East Germans had flatly refused an offer of guaranteed permission to go to the West providing they returned to East Germany first . |
| 15 | Five years after being kidnapped in Beirut the last of the US hostages had finally come home . |
| 16 | However , by 1607 , the last of the Ulster chieftains had either been routed or driven into exile and , in six of the nine counties , English and Scottish settlers arrived to consolidate colonial rule and the English monarchy . |
| 17 | Twenty five of the PSC patients had coexistent ulcerative colitis while three had Crohn 's disease . |
| 18 | Twenty five of the PSC patients had coexisting ulcerative colitis , of these , 22 showed the type 1 pattern of staining . |
| 19 | Most of the London councils had paid up by then , though some of the large sums promised by the unions were still churning their way through committees . |
| 20 | Even the modern masks of the Gulf hareems had their indigo linings which left little tell-tale purplish marks on the noses of the women who wore them . |
| 21 | ‘ When the cortege arrived a grave ear-marked , I think , for one of the Kavanagh sisters had been opened two doors down from Patrick 's , which at this stage had a wooden crucifix made and erected by Peter and crazy pavings which I gather were stepping stones from a stream on the homestead and mentioned in one of the poems . |
| 22 | ‘ I was standing by the graveside and one of the Kavanagh sisters had said to Helen Moloney , Katherine 's sister : ‘ It 's perfectly all right to use Patrick 's grave . |
| 23 | The first of the November frosts had settled on the lawn in front of the house , and the Sierra was an age starting . |
| 24 | Diligent searching of the Lubyanka files had unearthed a memo signed by one Dr Smoltsov , chief of medical services at the prison , to General Viktor Abakumov , the Minister of State Security , under whose ‘ special supervision ’ Wallenberg was being held . |
| 25 | But none of the Dukeries villages had a Labour party branch until the 1940s , and the area returned only one Labour County Councillor before then ( in 1937 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ One of the CIA men had to phone a message through to Reagan . |
| 27 | No such meeting of the Jarrad shareholders had ever taken place . |
| 28 | I only heard the start of the prog but it sounded like the Norwich fans had booked tickets at Leeds , went to pick them up and were told to f*** off ! |
| 29 | Further investigation of the complaint was deferred until the criminal proceedings against the Murphy brothers had been concluded . |
| 30 | Prisons had now reached a turning point and the Woolf Report into the Strangeways riots had set the scene for dramatic reform , Mr Clarke said . |