Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather signs in the sky of the previous evening had foretold correctly but the Ben had been kind to me on my first ascent . |
| 2 | Later when we were enjoying a beer with the station commander were we nearly disposed of when it was announced that the Stirling had clobbered a Coles crane , an ambulance , several minor vehicles and the CO 's Humber . |
| 3 | The Carters had laid on a jazz evening , featuring Sarah Vaughan and Dizzy Gillespie . |
| 4 | If the Tellenoreans had got into Pike 's body , was n't this a slightly odd thing to make him do ? |
| 5 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 6 | This has become something of a cause célèbre in rock press folklore , but in truth the NME had been in worse scrapes before and no doubt has many more ahead . |
| 7 | But as the shooting and the mopping-up continued yesterday , the prospect of a protracted guerrilla operation began to loom over what the Pentagon had hoped would be a splendid Christmas victory . |
| 8 | US intelligence reports of ‘ northern redoubts ’ where Cuban advisers have been training the militia and storing arms and ammunition could also mean a far longer military operation than the Pentagon had originally envisaged . |
| 9 | The previous day the Pentagon had issued a statement claiming that the photograph had passed through the hands of a " ring of Cambodia opportunists led by a well-known and admitted fabricator " of information about MIAs . |
| 10 | Announcing the agreement a US Defence Department spokesman said that the Pentagon had so far committed US$191,000,000 of the US$400,000,000 allocated by Congress to help Russia transport , dismantle and store nuclear and other dangerous weapons . |
| 11 | In the first place , the Pentagon had partial control over how the funds granted under the terms of the Pacts of Madrid were to be spent . |
| 12 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 13 | The Lord of the Manor had apparently lied to us . |
| 14 | The Lord of the Manor had sent word that he wished to see the players . |
| 15 | The Knelles had raised their children to feel proud of Ireland . |
| 16 | Although the CGT had broadly endorsed a package of protectionist economic measures announced on Oct. 28 [ see below ] , there had been an angry reaction in early November when Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo announced that senior government officials were to receive 200 per cent salary increases . |
| 17 | The Treaty of Rome had been signed without her in March 1957 ; the EEC had come into being in January 1958 ; and de Gaulle had been recalled to power in France to solve the Algerian crisis in June that year . |
| 18 | Euratom would probably have run into similar difficulties even if the EEC had not been in place . |
| 19 | Trade within the EEC had expanded at a rate double that of trade with non-members , and the EEC had also become the world 's largest trading power . |
| 20 | Trade within the EEC had expanded at a rate double that of trade with non-members , and the EEC had also become the world 's largest trading power . |
| 21 | Again in 1960 , the EEC had begun to look at the problem of discrimination in transport , and in 1961 a Monetary Committee was established , as well as one charged with examining trade cycle policy . |
| 22 | The advance towards the EEC had , of course , taken place without British participation , since Britain could not accept the fundamental supranational principle . |
| 23 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 24 | Economic progress within the EEC had been satisfactory . |
| 25 | In addition , under strong pressure from France , the EEC had also taken the basic decisions on a common agricultural policy , to which it was committed by the Treaty of Rome . |
| 26 | Benelux in particular objected to the vigour with which de Gaulle and France were pushing the Fouchet Plan , and argued that fundamental decisions such as those raised by the plan should be deferred until at least the question of British membership of the EEC had been resolved . |
| 27 | While it is an oversimplification to view the first decade of operation as some kind of golden age , it is fair to say that until this point the EEC had worked fairly smoothly . |
| 28 | Like the ECSC , the EEC had a Council of Ministers as its main decision-making body . |
| 29 | The EEC had survived the ‘ empty chair ’ crisis intact and the Rome Treaty remained fundamentally unchanged . |
| 30 | Soon after the EEC had adopted the plan a Soviet statement anticipated that this ‘ patently unrealistic ‘ initiative ’ ' would be used ‘ to launch another round of propaganda attacks on the USSR ’ by Westerners who simultaneously strike ‘ a pose of peacemaker and champion of a settlement ’ . |