Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee . |
| 2 | While the Bakufu administration had for several decades been subject to criticisms from within its own ranks , a more serious threat to its supremacy emerged from within domains traditionally hostile to it . |
| 3 | But the decision for closure had in any case already been made by the predecessor AHA . |
| 4 | Since then , AT&T has been urging the FCC not to grant BT a licence unless the gesture is reciprocated ; its British rival had until this week been taking a similar line . |
| 5 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 6 | His pleasure at the escape had for some reason given way now to even more sadness in the presence of the eagles that were still caged , as if the escape of one had intensified the sense of imprisonment of the others . |
| 7 | More than half of this came from city organisations , largely due to the good connections which members of the appeal committee had with such institutions . |
| 8 | They had had high priority since the fuel crisis of February 1947 , but boilers and site work had in many cases been delayed ( mainly because of steel shortages ) so that 300–400MW of plant completed by the turbo-alternator manufacturers had had to be put in store for a year or more . |
| 9 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 10 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 11 | Part of his objection may also have been that one 's trade and one 's home had in most cases parted company by that date , a development that William Morris was later to deplore . |
| 12 | By the mid eighteenth century the rise of tin and copper mining had in any event produced a precarious balance between local grain supplies and a growing population . |
| 13 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 14 | Councillor Matheson also asked if any social workers presently in the employ of Orkney Islands Council had at any time in their careers , attended conferences , seminars or other courses organised by the Reachout Trust ? |
| 15 | The Council had by this stage resolved the issue of its degree classification , so that separate degrees with separate admission for honours and ordinary students were no longer to be offered . |
| 16 | Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall . |
| 17 | Owing to the increased employment on war work , trade union membership had in any case been on the increase . |
| 18 | Lukács ' early assault on Marxist economism , subsequently retracted under criticism from the Leninist orthodoxy of the Comintern , became particularly influential in the post-war period among Marxist intellectuals who sought to redefine a new Marxist humanism against the economism of Stalinism with which Lukács ' name had by that time itself become associated . |
| 19 | In Trinidad meanwhile , Eric Williams ' fears about the West Indies succumbing to American imperialism had to some extent been realised . |
| 20 | Goebbels 's propaganda had by this time in any case lost practically all credibility . |
| 21 | Moreover I can reveal that the findings of the Committee were certainly not those indicated in this letter ; we found that Derry Corporation had for many years been carrying out a policy of anti-Rome Catholic discrimination in employment and rigid segregation in housing . |
| 22 | The Principal had by this time become almost as fluorescent as the neon sign outside his academy , and we eyeballed one another in a spirit entirely lacking in camaraderie . |
| 23 | None the less , its economy had in some ways benefited from the diversification and protection from external competition which resulted from international sanctions imposed after the unilateral declaration of independence by the white minority government in 1965 . |
| 24 | Ed missed most of the discussions his father had with these people . |
| 25 | As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation . |
| 26 | Using annual-change figures Champion ( 1983 , 1987 ) showed that the main decentralization process peaked in the early 1970s , and that by the time of the 1981 census the former pattern had to some extent reasserted itself . |
| 27 | Belief or the absence of belief that the owner had with such knowledge consented to the appropriation is relevant to the issue of dishonesty , not to the question whether or not there has been an appropriation . |
| 28 | He said , at p. 632 : ‘ Belief or the absence of belief that the owner had with such knowledge consented to the appropriation is relevant to the issue of dishonesty , not to the question whether or not there has been an appropriation . |
| 29 | Though his career had to this point suffered no check , according to Ata'i , he now fell into disfavour with the Grand Vezir Sokullu Mehmed Pasa ( Grand Vezir 972 87/1565–79 ) , who succeeded in accomplishing his removal , with a pension , in Safar 987/April 1579 . |
| 30 | Late in life he married a member of the Wilkinson family ( whose firm had for many years been solicitors to the College ) . |