Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 2 | While the progress towards the reunion of separated churches has been much slower than many had hoped , the last sixty years have seen dialogue and joint action at many levels , from the local to the international , between Christian communities which had for long centuries been very largely isolated from each other . |
| 3 | Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension . |
| 4 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 5 | The monastic reform movement did not reach north-west Mercia either , yet this area had not been much influenced by Scandinavian settlement , and it did eventually extend into East Anglia , which had to some degree been so affected . |
| 6 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 7 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |
| 8 | We received a call from the hospital , which had by this time received the results of the X-rays . |
| 9 | Initially at least , NHS resources were not being passed across to the local authorities and the voluntary organizations active within the Riverside DHA which had by this stage succeeded Victoria DHA in another reorganization . |
| 10 | Steel-Maitland could at last be moved from the Ministry of Labour , which had in many ways been the key departmental post of the administration , and in which he had throughout been ill-regarded but undisturbed . |
| 11 | On Aug. 14 four armed groups , which had in recent weeks come together under Farah Aydid 's leadership in the south of the country as the Somali Liberation Army , formed a Somali National Alliance ( SNA ) . |
| 12 | Shut up in her garage , his work approved of and praised by her , comforted by Captain Dawson 's and her advice , which had in all respects proved reliable , he had felt a safety and confidence unknown to him before . |
| 13 | This agreement ( which gave formal recognition to what had for several decades been becoming established practice ) brings out well the complexities and ambiguities inherent in much of the administrative structure of old-regime Europe . |