Example sentences of "in [art] [noun sg] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police in the capital had been on the alert following the shooting of PC Ray Hall early on Saturday morning after he discovered a lorry bomb in north London . |
| 2 | The seizure of power in the capital had been the rebels ' primary objective since 18 July . |
| 3 | His major work was done in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s , he suffered Stalinist repression , was partly rehabilitated , and died in 1975 , at a time when very few people in the West had heard of him . |
| 4 | At the time it was insisted that virtually all Iraqi and Kuwaiti money in the West had been identified and frozen . |
| 5 | Uncensored in his own country until the 1968 invasion ( when he was put under an outright ban ) , he discovered his first novel to be published in the West had been rewritten from start to finish by the publisher . |
| 6 | Though the campaign scarcely gripped the imagination as the victories in the west had done — some reports hinted that the significance of the campaign had not been properly grasped , and that the victories had been unable to affect the popular mood for more than a very short time — it seemed to provide yet another example of Hitler 's strategic genius . |
| 7 | He doubts ‘ whether the significance which the certainty of the law has for the smooth and efficient working of economic life can be exaggerated ’ and suggests that ‘ there is probably no single factor which has contributed to the greater prosperity of the Western world compared with the Orient than the relative certainty of the law which in the West had early been achieved ’ . |
| 8 | The belief that God spoke directly to individuals gave Protestants a confidence in themselves and a dedication to their cause which ordinary people in the West had probably never known before . |
| 9 | Gundobad and his son Sigismund both wanted the title of magister militum in the sixth century , long after the last emperor in the west had been deposed . |
| 10 | Smelling the fresh dust in the air he realised that the load of grain in the hopper had only recently been discharged into the stall . |
| 11 | It is doubtful whether the unfortunates impounded in the Lazzaretto had time to concern themselves with the aesthetic niceties of the building , and it can only be hoped that the church offered them some spiritual comfort . |
| 12 | In The Emperor 's Clothes ( 1953 ) Kathleen Nott called the Christian revivalism of Eliot , Lewis and others no better than a revived superstition ; and in a scathing attack on contemporary dogmatics and the anti-progressive views of literary Modernism she remarked , in tones of ultimate scorn , that Lewis 's interest in the Devil had plumbed unusual depths . |
| 13 | Mr Arbiter said ‘ the wrong movement ’ of the Prince in the saddle had aggravated the old injury . |
| 14 | There was a sing-song in progress in the dome car and the racegoers in the dayniter had formed about four separate card schools with cash passing briskly . |
| 15 | This provided valuable winter fodder for animals taken indoors or kept in pens or crew yards over the winter , when the grass in the pasture had stopped growing . |
| 16 | Seventy-seven per cent of officers in the sample had ten years or more service to their credit ; some 50 per cent of social work practitioners had less than five years experience . |
| 17 | She sat back , visualising the scene as the mud in the sample had been examined by remote control , and the virus isolated . |
| 18 | Almost all of the science students in the sample had taken A levels in physics , maths and chemistry or physics , maths and further maths ; one had A levels in physics , maths and English , while two had A levels in geography , and some physical science students had biology rather than maths A level : these , however , formed a very small minority of the whole . |
| 19 | Amid the protests to date , perhaps the most telling line has come from Newtownards woman Phyllis Bibby whose petition demanding urgent changes in the system had been meeting with a poor response . |
| 20 | Good humour was needed — but the main message throughout the school 's planning and implementation of change was that every party in the system had to trust everyone else . |
| 21 | Dr Gerard Vaughan , a former health minister , was especially vocal in condemning the action , but others took the view that the ‘ informer ’ in the case had a duty to report an action which possibly constituted a crime against another human being ; |
| 22 | Two government prosecutors in the case had resigned on Jan. 9 , claiming that intimidation of witnesses had made their task impossible . |
| 23 | The judge in the case had ordered an investigation into why social services took two years to call in the police.Kim Barnes reports |
| 24 | Yeast from the beer beer in the brewery had caused a scaly rash to grow on her forearms and across the backs of her hands . |
| 25 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |
| 26 | The plaintiff , acting under section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 ‘ to promote or protect the interests of the inhabitants in its area , ’ brought an action for declarations that the dock company and its sublessees operating in the port had created a public nuisance and it sought injunctions restraining them from permitting heavy goods vehicles coming to and from the port between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m . |
| 27 | Only out on the water with Pedro panting in the prow had she dared to admit that for the first time in her life she had felt herself a prisoner at the Hall . |
| 28 | Mr Nichol demanded : ‘ Who leaked this report before we in the defence had a chance to see it ? ’ |
| 29 | The assistant recorder was right to find , as he did , that the allegations of agency set out in the defence had not been made out . |
| 30 | Schools involved in the scheme had to pay a ‘ management charge ’ to the LEA to cover administration costs . |