Example sentences of "[verb] had [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 2 | A Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman said that lists of nuclear installations to be protected had yet to be exchanged . |
| 3 | However , the Minority and Majority Reports which resulted had more in common than divided them . |
| 4 | A visitor to Mohenjo Daro , one of the Indus Valley sites , will be left with the impression that this city with all it contained had either in record time surpassed all other human generations in inventiveness , or that like the Aryans they were immigrants bringing with them centuries of cultural inheritance . |
| 5 | Said had earlier in the year been mentioned in a House of Commons select committee as an important contact in securing for British Aerospace the £20,000 million al-Yamamah arms purchase of 1985 , a deal which became a focus of controversy after allegations that large sums were paid to mediators . |
| 6 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 7 | The type and nature of the voting system under which the elections would be held had yet to be agreed by the Assembly . |
| 8 | What political integration still remained had now for the most part little to do with Nazi idealism or belief in the genius of the Führer , but in the common fear of the consequences of defeat and hatred of the enemy coupled with reserves of patriotic defiance . |