Example sentences of "of [noun] had [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men of Ruthyn had abandoned all caution , spurring their horses furiously , lengthening out in their turn into a long frieze parallel with the edge of the forest , every man mad to be the first to lay hand on the arch-enemy . |
| 2 | The study of literature had become little more than a loose aggregate of philosophy , history , psychology , aesthetics , ethnography , sociology , and so on , and the Formalists felt that any specificity it might have had had been swamped by its adjacent disciplines . |
| 3 | Fewer of course had seen all of it : 71 per cent , 49 per cent , 19 per cent and 5 per cent , respectively . |
| 4 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 5 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
| 6 | ‘ But I thought the recent Act of Parliament had stopped all that , ’ Catherine said . |
| 7 | Only a third of LEAs had arranged any training for social services departments about the purpose and procedures of the 1981 Act , and only a few more ( 38 per cent ) had arranged training for health authorities . |
| 8 | Stephen 's quick action in marching to head off David of Scotland had impressed most of the barons and the King looked forward to a well-attended Easter court , which would confer upon his kingship the final confirmation of acknowledgement by his nobles . |
| 9 | Thousands of feet had tramped this route in times past before railways and military invasion . |
| 10 | The agency claimed that , having stated as recently as Sept. 17 that it had no unreleased BNL material , it had since discovered the existence of a series of transmissions from the CIA 's Rome station which indicated that the Rome headquarters of BNL had authorized some of the Iraqi loans . |
| 11 | If this had happened , and if one could state confidently that the Parliament of England had survived these events , albeit in an altered state , whereas the parliaments first , of Scotland , and later , of Ireland , had disappeared from the scene , then there would be some warrant for assuming that the law , customs , conventions and powers of the Parliament of England had survived , whereas those of the others had not . |
| 12 | But neither the king nor the bishops of England had recognized either of the rival candidates to the papacy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Harry slipped the book into his pocket , wondering as he did so which previous patron of the Skein of Geese had handed such a thing on to Heather . |
| 16 | As it has often done in the modern period , the experience of war had given those who had taken part in it and survived it a new and more confident awareness of their own worth and standing . |
| 17 | Twenty-two years of war had honed that skill to near perfection , and as a result a mother in France would soon be weeping . |
| 18 | Age and experience were valued in the belief that length of days had provided some guidance on how to live and what to expect in the life to come . |
| 19 | While an earlier generation of writers had noted this feature of the period , it was not until the recent work of Cairncross that the significance of this outflow was realized . |
| 20 | His pain had receded a little , as though this latest bout of agony had overloaded some circuits of his brain 's pain-response centre . |
| 21 | The hospitality of luxury and the liberality of ostentation had ruined many . |
| 22 | Bernard Ulrich and colleagues at the University of Gottingen had proposed that deposition of sulphur and nitrogen compounds ( originating from industrial activity and power generation ) led to the release of aluminium from minerals in the soil . |
| 23 | Even after the Renaissance and the rebirth of learning had reached these shores ears were still having a rough ride . |
| 24 | The government said that a rebel attack on the town of Tchoukou-Hadje had left several dead . |
| 25 | Here , in the valleys of the Rivers Zamora and Upano , several generations of colonists had cleared much of the forest , replacing it with pasture grazed by cattle . |
| 26 | Their knowledge of society had taught these men that there was a huge audience that wanted to laugh and that comedians had to strain every nerve and to try every joke in order to release that laughter . |
| 27 | The announcement of rationing had done much to depress their spirits , promising years of deprivation and misery . |
| 28 | Lamarck 's theory of the gradual transformation of species had threatened this image , much to Cuvier 's annoyance , and Geoffroy 's very different approach to the significance of structural resemblances reopened the same debate . |
| 29 | No major Western head of government had had such direct contact with an Iraqi leader since the crisis began on Aug. 2 . |
| 30 | The Church had ceased to be monolithic ; the social structure of Europe had become more fluid . |