Example sentences of "such a [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a government had to be able to carry a programme of economies through the House of Commons : this immediately ruled out the possibility of a Labour minority government led by Henderson , as suggested by Moodie in an otherwise illuminating article . |
| 2 | Such a vision had never so much as crossed her mind . |
| 3 | The proposal for such a register had been endorsed at the G-7 summit of leading industrialized countries in London in July [ see p. 38321-22 ] . |
| 4 | He admitted that — from a communist point of view — such a development had great dangers and what was involved was the ‘ competition of economic forms ’ . |
| 5 | Fear of such a development had motivated Communist attacks on Left Socialism . |
| 6 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 7 | Such a plan had allegedly been mooted by Robert Gates , director of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , who visited Jordan in late June . |
| 8 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 9 | It was an enormous tunnelling problem , and detractors called it both dangerous and impractical , because nothing on such a scale had been attempted before . |
| 10 | Nor could it have happened on such a scale had the banks ' powers of credit-creation been constrained by the prudential rules governing national financial structures . |
| 11 | Where such a transaction had taken place there were no problems , but naturally any forced seizures caused bitterness and could well lead to bloodshed . |
| 12 | In a formal statement on Nov. 8 , they condemned attacks by the Yugoslav National Army on Dubrovnik and other Croatian cities , but they added that recognition for seceding republics " can only be envisaged in the framework of an overall settlement " and that such a settlement had to guarantee the rights of " national or ethnic groups within the individual republics . " |
| 13 | This was said without fear but with considerable surprise , as most certainly such a thought had not crossed his mind for months . |
| 14 | Sinclair thus gave an undertaking that his papers would always remain Unionist , but Steel-Maitland doubted if such a promise had any value . |
| 15 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 16 | This year BGS enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site on Triassic sandstones where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 17 | Where there was evidence to show that such a decision had been taken for reasons of national security , this would be accepted to ‘ preclude judicial investigation of [ the ] particular … grievance ’ . |
| 18 | By the time of the Treaty of Vienna and the Concert of Europe , such a system had become formalized , and the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War brought in many more participants ( and took power to create new States , like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia ) . |
| 19 | Nevertheless the third party and his advisers seem to have acted as if such a direction had been given , for a document expressed to be a defence and counterclaim of the third party has been served . |
| 20 | It was the site where such a building had to be , if buildings there were at all . |
| 21 | Even if this appears to have occurred , a deconstructive account will show how such a text had to dissimulate in order to cover over its own openings , or , to put it the other way round , it will show how history must always be organized by an attempted occlusion of its own conditions of historicity . |
| 22 | Such a swing had never happened before and would not happen this time . |
| 23 | UNLU would not have given such a warning had it not feared how the PLO outside might behave . |
| 24 | Such a candidate had , among eight conditions , to be from a political party outside parliament but favourably disposed to the parliament , and to be able to " reassure the popular masses , the international sector , the industrial and commercial sector , the middle classes and the army " . |
| 25 | Such a curriculum had served well , and did so for many years afterwards , that small percentage ( less than 10$ ) who enjoyed grammar school education and were marked out to be the leaders of the nation . |
| 26 | Whilst the peerage was validly conferred , however , the House of Lords itself decided that such a peer had no right to sit , and the object of the exercise was thus frustrated . |
| 27 | Such a move had already affected three of the twenty working-class housewives interviewed . |
| 28 | Such a reality had little sympathy for the training of character and the creation of citizens . |
| 29 | Enormous political and scientific concern was stimulated by the realisation that such a decline had been predicted by Professor Bernard Ulrich of Gottingen University . |
| 30 | Channel Four and Box Productions were found in contempt of court under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , the first time such a charge had been made in an attempt to compel journalists to reveal sources . |