Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the Illustrated London News shows that Guest & Merriman 's experiment had included several microphones and a selector system , but the surviving disc shows no sign of active ‘ mixing ’ . |
| 2 | The young concert pianist had spent fewer hours reaching concert standard than he had spent achieving a mediocre amateur level . |
| 3 | Moreover , GCE had received many reviews , which detailed both its strengths and its weaknesses . |
| 4 | Sidacai and the remaining Altun who were to ride with the command had arrived several days earlier , but since his return he had spoken to none of them . |
| 5 | Chiodini took the diary from the pile of documents on his desk and showed him that the lawyer had marked several pages during the previous three months with a red asterisk , the last being two days earlier . |
| 6 | The severe reduction in Soviet aid had led many commentators to predict that 1991 would be an extremely bad year for Vietnam . |
| 7 | Pound had noticed those qualities when , in 1915 , he had written to Henry Ware Eliot in order to explain why his son should remain in London and not return to America — his course , he said , would be smoother than Pound 's own . |
| 8 | If Labour had eliminated these plans from its programme and continued to emphasise John Smith 's prudence ( as opposed to his curious ideas about minimum wages and confiscatory ‘ social justice ’ ) , then they would have swung more London and Midlands marginals their way . |
| 9 | In 1990 Jesse Helms defeated a black opponent in a Senate race in North Carolina after running television commercials showing imaginary whites being rejected for jobs because affirmative action had given those jobs to blacks . |
| 10 | The committee had investigated all aspects of the capital 's administration and its relationship with the central government . |
| 11 | They did not allege that the Brigham Young University work had pirated any ideas from their own work . ’ |
| 12 | No one in the village had contracted any symptoms . |
| 13 | The position was illogical , both because classical law had allowed many wordings which were far from precatory , and because the simplest way of distinguishing civil-law institutions was to see whether they used the proper wording . |
| 14 | The government , however , attempted to avert a threatened national teachers ' strike , by claiming that the emergency tax plan had raised enough revenues to increase their wages . |
| 15 | Humanity had brought many things along , inadvertently , when it came out to populate the stars-unseen stowaways like bacteria , flies , fleas . |
| 16 | Elected only ten months ago , the current council had made several changes . |
| 17 | By March 1962 , however , the Soviet military had taken several steps — nuclear weapons ' tests , the development of the ‘ global rocket ’ , the redeploying of launch sites — to bolster the credibility of the Soviet deterrent , and commentators once again ‘ buried the myth of the invulnerability of the United States of America ’ ( Pravda , 31 March 1962 , in Zimmerman : 1969 , pp. 189–90 ) . |
| 18 | Membership had brought several years of sustained economic growth , with a high level of foreign investment . |
| 19 | Mr. Ault frankly admitted to me that the plaintiff had brought these proceedings instead , in order to avoid paying compensation under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 if it altered or withdrew the consent . |
| 20 | The earlier period had aroused many expectations that America was on the verge of a social cinema , but , as the social-problem films of the post-1933 period came along , critics were to be uneasy about many of their characteristics . |
| 21 | Long years of poverty had filled those words with a special resonance ; to use them now brought out again the risk-all abandon of those times , before responsibility had taught her caution . |
| 22 | By last year the crisis had reached such proportions that Southern California introduced radical new regulations to control air pollution . |
| 23 | Within moments of climbing on board , Kelly could see why Billy Liar had won few friends at the yard . |
| 24 | The publican had heard both sides of the many arguments between the two , and for far too long . |
| 25 | Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind , and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst day of all . |
| 26 | The war had made many businessmen conscious of the need and opportunities for private banks in both London and the provinces . |
| 27 | I was accepted as part of the family , which consisted of two daughters and a grandfather , ; the husband had died many years before . |
| 28 | Her second husband had died Some years before , and now she lived with her son , George Grimsdale and his two young children in a large house at Windsor — 37 Victoria Cottages . |
| 29 | As the old pensioner listened to the song , which was now accompanied by the ringing of bells , Fleury saw an expression of tender devotion come over his lined face , and he , too , thought , as the Collector had thought some weeks earlier in the tiger house , what a lot of Indian life was unavailable to the Englishman who came equipped with his own religion and habits . |
| 30 | Then after Farish had displaced these shots and Baxter had moved the jack for Cumbria to hold three , Harlow trailed it again to leave Cumbria still holding one . |