Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the owner of the cottage had never been burgled and did n't really believe that it might happen ; there was a new-looking bolt at the bottom of the kitchen door that had n't been shot . |
| 2 | The sharpness of the contrast had not struck Breeze before , but as she walked down to Overclyst village she pondered over it . |
| 3 | The man at the base of the tree had begun to operate the electric felling-saw even before the other one began to descend . |
| 4 | It had not been her head which Ghost of the Tree had worked on to his skull-staff the night before . |
| 5 | The material of the bags had been destroyed in the fire and most of the burned contents of the hold had been dispersed over a wide area . |
| 6 | Even though its vote was slightly up on that of October 1974 , Labour 's share of the poll had fallen to 36.9 per cent , the worst since 1931 , while the Tories had risen to 43.9 per cent . |
| 7 | Reviewing the situation at the end of the year , Lindsay Cooke , one of the Greens ' 1989 spokespeople , thought despondently that the movement 's share of the poll had shrunk because of a lack of publicity . |
| 8 | She sat , still staring at the newspaper and slowly a look of understanding came across her face as if the final piece of the jigsaw had just been put into place . |
| 9 | The government was well aware that the very survival of the church had been in no small degree due to the coherence and discipline imparted by the episcopate . |
| 10 | It shows that the older , ‘ high ’ view of the Church had survived and that not all Nonconformist chapels could be lambasted as mere preaching barns in which the faithful could hear the minister dilate on the role religion could play in politics . |
| 11 | The traditional teaching of the Church had been to condemn war wherever possible . |
| 12 | The central window sills at the rear of the church had arrangements linked to signify our unity and involvement with our friends in other Runcorn Churches , through Interchurch , our home-grown unity movement . |
| 13 | The rest of the church had ceased to exist for him . |
| 14 | The interior of the church had been dark . |
| 15 | Even when the happy couple had left for their honeymoon , and the floor of the marquee had been cleared for the dance due to follow the reception , she still felt as though she was wound up as tightly as a spring . |
| 16 | Which meant , she reasoned thoughtfully , that there was a castle or town near by where one of the vanished occupants of the hut had probably been employed . |
| 17 | Six members of the PP had been arrested on April 6 on the orders of a magistrate in Valencia and questioned for a week about their involvement in irregular financial dealings to obtain political donations for the party worth 2,000 million pesetas ( about US$19,000,000 ) . |
| 18 | Rounding off the debate , Mr Key explained that the installation of the computer had been the reason for the reduction in the funding available . |
| 19 | Cabbages ( part of the Wilderness had been a vegetable patch ) armed themselves with woody bark ; rhubarb threw off weak elastic branches ; roses shed superfluous petals and muscled into the potato patch ; vegetables , weeds and shrubs increased their ranks or sizes while snowdrifts or perennial flowers transformed the land . |
| 20 | Somehow the doctrine of the Fall had been stood on its head . |
| 21 | Another area of the operation had involved laundering profits through the illegal currency market in Russia , as well as trade in east European arms . |
| 22 | Inspired by Talleyrand , the founder of the Dynasty had set up a number of high sounding offices such as Vice Grand Elector and Vice Constable , and to these gothic absurdities were added the ceremonies of the lever and coucher , echoes of the ancien régime . |
| 23 | Four generations of Glynns , and the fourth of the dynasty had got himself murdered in his own office ; no heat-of-the-moment crime either , but a carefully planned murder executed in cold blood out of hatred , or fear , or obsessive greed . |
| 24 | He quickly knew that the rest of the order had been ‘ tie him ’ . |
| 25 | It was against that background that the judges and staff of the court had throughout the year been examining what measures were feasible which tip the balance in the direction of reducing delays , either by an improved system for screening appeals or by an improved system for handling them or both . |
| 26 | Lord Lane said another division of the court had then felt powerless to intervene and hear new grounds of appeal because the Lords restored Berry 's conviction after an earlier successful appeal . |
| 27 | Lord Lane said another division of the court had then felt powerless to intervene and hear new grounds of appeal because the House of Lords had restored Berry 's conviction after an earlier successful appeal . |
| 28 | On this ground the proceedings of the licensing court were either reduced , or the pursuer 's averments were held relevant , in the following circumstances : when two of the members of the court had been employed by the applicant as part-time barmen for a number of years , without remuneration apart from money gifts at holiday periods : McDonald v. Fin lay ( supra ) ; when three of the members of the court were shareholders , and one was a director , of the company owning the property for which the certificate was sought , and when that company was closely allied with another company , the officials and directors of both being the same persons , on whose behalf the certificate was applied for : Blaik v. Anderson ( 1899 ) 7 S.L.T. 299 ; when a member of the court had recently been a shareholder of the company on whose behalf the certificate was applied for , and he had on previous occasions himself been the applicant on the company 's behalf , he being an avowed and pledged advocate of the company : Ower v. Crichton ( 1902 ) 10 S.L.T. 271 ; when members of a court had , in their capacity as members of a local authority , and with a view to street improvement , taken an active part in negotiating the purchase of licensed premises from brewers , who agreed to pay a sum of money to the local authority if a new licence were obtained for other premises , such as the subject of the application : R. v. Sunderland JJ. [ 1901 ] 2 K.B . |
| 29 | On this ground the proceedings of the licensing court were either reduced , or the pursuer 's averments were held relevant , in the following circumstances : when two of the members of the court had been employed by the applicant as part-time barmen for a number of years , without remuneration apart from money gifts at holiday periods : McDonald v. Fin lay ( supra ) ; when three of the members of the court were shareholders , and one was a director , of the company owning the property for which the certificate was sought , and when that company was closely allied with another company , the officials and directors of both being the same persons , on whose behalf the certificate was applied for : Blaik v. Anderson ( 1899 ) 7 S.L.T. 299 ; when a member of the court had recently been a shareholder of the company on whose behalf the certificate was applied for , and he had on previous occasions himself been the applicant on the company 's behalf , he being an avowed and pledged advocate of the company : Ower v. Crichton ( 1902 ) 10 S.L.T. 271 ; when members of a court had , in their capacity as members of a local authority , and with a view to street improvement , taken an active part in negotiating the purchase of licensed premises from brewers , who agreed to pay a sum of money to the local authority if a new licence were obtained for other premises , such as the subject of the application : R. v. Sunderland JJ. [ 1901 ] 2 K.B . |
| 30 | Many facets of the problem had to be addressed . |