Example sentences of "had [vb pp] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indicative of the degenerate state into which the practice of investing had fallen is the fact that it is considered a reform that it should be inquired of the intending how old he is , under whom he has studied , and what he has studied . |
| 2 | In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom . |
| 3 | That Mar failed where Monck and William of Orange had succeeded is partly related to military factors , but also reflects the fact that neither the domestic political crisis was so severe nor popular disaffection so widespread in 1714 – 15 as it had been in either 1659 – 60 or 1688 – 9 . |
| 4 | Barker was a natural showman , promoting Henry VIII with the declaration that he would burn all the prints of the film within six weeks , and his own sense of the significance of what he had done is echoed in Rachael Low 's description of this as ‘ the first really important feature film . ’ |
| 5 | The difference was that although the three ploughs were alleged to have been laid up , ‘ the houses are up to now standing and occupied ’ ; precisely what Greville had done is obscure , but whatever it was it had undoubtedly achieved a dramatic increase in productivity without uprooting the tenants . |
| 6 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
| 7 | This is the stage when the bereaved person often feels that the person who had died is with them in the house , talks to them , appears during the night , etc . |
| 8 | In other words what had happened is that legal doctrine had drawn upon conflicting conceptions of the company to legitimate limited liability and to endorse the power conferred upon directors to manage the company . |
| 9 | Only after he had left is he free , in the absence of express restraint , to make use of the latter though never the former . |
| 10 | It should be noted that the figure of twenty three thousand eight hundred and six pounds which Mr had had taken is the cost of the carer paid on the basis of quote , proscript charges , unquote , advocated by the defendant 's expert Mrs and not the British Nursing Agency charges , advocated by the plaintiff 's expert Mrs . |
| 11 | The impression persists , that the only life he had lived is , in fact , the literary , and , admitting its necessity to our fathers , especially to him who had such a job of clearing to do , I take it a fault . |