Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] had [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect the European computer industry had already by summer 1984 obtained IBM 's agreement to the OSI requirement and this — not anti-monopoly — was now Europe 's chosen route . |
| 2 | However , ‘ riots ’ before and after the Leeds United match at Bournemouth in May 1990 , which resulted in 120 arrests , suggested that football hooliganism had far from disappeared and that there was still no basis for complacency . |
| 3 | His assassination was predictable , although how the murderer passed by the android security guards had yet to be explained . |
| 4 | It is difficult to contemplate that a mortgage deed would ever be construed as entitling a mortgagee to charge against the mortgaged property , or to require the mortgagor to pay , all costs charges and expenses even if improperly or unreasonably incurred or improper or unreasonable in amount unless the mortgage deed had expressly in terms so provided . |
| 5 | When this unlikely idea was first launched in England and Canada , the exact pattern of the past few million years of pole reversals had yet to be charted . |
| 6 | On warm days the area between the lawn and water surface had constantly to be watched so that , immediately signs of shrinkage appeared , water could be sprayed on to the puddled surface . |
| 7 | So the paths of light rays in the event horizon had always to be moving parallel to , or away from , each other . |
| 8 | However , by August 1991 proposals for general privatization measures had yet to be agreed by parliament . |
| 9 | The second reason for the Labour movement 's hostility was that the trade unions had still to be convinced that their strength had increased sufficiently to risk reconsidering the position as declared at their annual conference in 1930 . |
| 10 | Government forces had constantly to be at hand . |
| 11 | The agreement , which still had to be endorsed by local chiefs , left central Bougainville as the only area where government services had yet to be restored . |
| 12 | Pomerania , the Vistula delta and East Prussia had little in the way of natural resources or industrial centres ; worthwhile manufactured goods and raw materials for export were located some 250–500 kilometres inland in areas that lay south of Poznán , Warsaw and Lublin . |
| 13 | To protect the ‘ genuine ’ third party , the consent of the member States had also to be brought to the notice of the other party to the treaty , a non-member of the organisation . |
| 14 | It was still necessary to organize the signing of a legally binding document by broadcasters and manufacturers ; detailed financing proposals had still to be made by the Commission , which put likely EC expenditure at ECU1,000 million ( US$1,340 million ) over five years . |
| 15 | Government officials said the UK 's exact contribution to the task force had yet to be worked out . |
| 16 | The marginal interest rate had early on Nov. 19 been raised from 11.5 to 20 per cent , in an attempt to defend the krona , but cut again to 12.5 per cent by the end of the day , by which time the krona had lost around 9 per cent of its value against the deutschmark . |