Example sentences of "and [noun] [noun pl] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1623 the disafforestment and sale of the woods and wastes of Chippenham and Melksham Forests had been accomplished : Bowood Park alone was reserved to the Crown in that part of Wiltshire . |
| 2 | An army of beastmen and Chaos warriors had descended on Avelorn . |
| 3 | However , London Transport was unwilling to go to the expense of refitting proper external lighting and the headlamp masks were never removed , as they incorporated red slides for display at the rear end of the car and the combined side lamps-tail lamps and route numbers had been removed or rendered ineffective at the beginning of the war . |
| 4 | Reports from hospitals in Kuwait showed that lung and chest complaints had increased dramatically . |
| 5 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
| 6 | Ancillary services such as engineers and field hospitals had become a little more elaborate , but an army was still essentially composed , as was Napoleon 's , of the three great arms : artillery , cavalry and infantry . |
| 7 | It was also reported that considerable quantities of files and computer disks had been seized during the raids . |
| 8 | Patients with severe oesophagitis ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) and adenocarcinoma patients had a similar long history of smoking both of which were greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) . |
| 9 | Severe oesophagitis patients ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) and adenocarcinoma patients had similar long histories of smoking , both of which were greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 10 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 11 | Previously their real and money wages had grown at a rate q , the rate of productivity growth . |
| 12 | The air embargo had been agreed in principle by the five permanent Council members on Sept. 19 , the day after a meeting of the nine-member Western European Union in Paris at which Foreign and Defence Ministers had decided to " take all further measures necessary for the full and effective enforcement of the embargo , with particular attention to air traffic " . |
| 13 | Many of the fruit and vegetable gardens had walls round them , but there were no locked doors . |
| 14 | Reports on Oct. 18 said that the German Defence Minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg had assured ministers that the new corps did not signify a " questioning of NATO 's central role " , but that both UK and Netherlands officials had expressed concern . |
| 15 | SAVERS who spread their funds over a range of accounts to keep interest paid below the level at which banks and building societies had to inform the taxman should be warned that the game is up . |
| 16 | Yet a draft prospectus had been published and research analysts had produced fat tomes . |
| 17 | The various nations and nationalities of the USSR , at the same time , had their specific concerns , and the neglect of these during the Stalin and Brezhnev years had led them to take the form of ‘ public disaffection , which now and then escalated into conflicts ’ . |
| 18 | By about 1880 street photos and action photos had become more common . |
| 19 | Fortunately for the restorers the glory of Fairford was recorded in precise detail by the Reverend Joyce in 1870 … before acid rain and car exhausts had done their worst . |
| 20 | In contrast , shares in British & Commonwealth at one stage dropped 25 per cent to 82p after unfounded rumours that Department of Trade and Industry inspectors had raided the offices . |
| 21 | On Jan. 14 the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported that growing tension between the Parcham and Khalq factions had recently led Najibullah to impose a 14-day emergency in Kabul ; officers and soldiers had been warned to remain in barracks . |
| 22 | Out of this , petrol and subsistence expenses had to be met . |
| 23 | Thus teachers , advisers and college lecturers had the chance to work with personalities as varied as Colette King , Keith Johnstone , Philip Hedley , Peter James and Robert Witkin . |
| 24 | JEWELLER Carol Darby could not suppress a smile when she heard that Princess Anne 's engagement and wedding rings had been made by royal jewellers Garrard . |
| 25 | Following the data which was being projected on to the tiny screen , it was clear that the telemetry and guidance modules had performed according to specification . |
| 26 | Feminists perceived that in a world where men and masculinist attitudes had monopolized notions of physical sexual pleasure , purity stress on chastity and the importance of human love provided a positive alternative . |
| 27 | Presenting on July 26 , 1990 , the budget for the year staring July 1 , Finance Minister Chidzero stated that economic performance and living standards had deteriorated since 1982 . |
| 28 | The good communications between the firm 's Queensferry and Ayr plants had been more important . |
| 29 | Rebel and opposition leaders had demanded that President Alfredo Cristiani and the assembly act on the recommendations of the Truth Commission before passing an amnesty . |
| 30 | On May 9 the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Arthit Urairat , announced that the government and opposition parties had agreed on a number of constitutional revisions , including one which would bar a non-elected person , such as Suchinda , from becoming Prime Minister . |