Example sentences of "[adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a further element to Mr McLean 's rapidly boiling anger : the sudden arrival of Mr Uppal , who hitherto had taken no interest in the case . |
| 2 | Tutorial Classes were firmly in the university sector and some LEAs were arranging classes which hitherto had been the preserve of the WEA , e.g. civics and esperanto , and even as early as 1936 , the number was relatively substantial ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 3 | There was bluegrass music from the mountains and blues from the deep south and a building of bridges between both cultures which hitherto had very little real experience of each other . |
| 4 | When pressure was eventually put on L.E.A.s in the 1950s to take over employment of the various county organisers whose salaries hitherto had been paid from Carnegie Trust funds , most authorities did so on condition that the organisers ' work should be extended to schools . |
| 5 | Her life hitherto had been a preparation — she recognized that now . |
| 6 | She had hitherto had plenty of flirtations . |
| 7 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
| 8 | Slave owners who became Christians revolutionised their treatment of slaves , giving to them the justice and the fair treatment that hitherto had been unknown in the ancient world . |
| 9 | At the beginning of the final session , 14 September 1965 , Pope Paul entered the basilica with little of the pomp that hitherto had surrounded the papacy . |
| 10 | Egypt was one of several Arab states that had attacked Israel and that hitherto had refused to formally recognize the state 's existence , let alone guarantee its frontiers . |
| 11 | What hitherto had been integrated plants in countries like the UK , carrying out complete manufacturing processes , are closed down and rationalized in order to manufacture products more cheaply from parts manufactured by workers divided between a number of countries . |
| 12 | Broadly speaking , Swann provided a liberal , semi-official legitimation for tackling issues of racism ( or , more accurately , prejudice ) and what it coyly referred to as ‘ cultural pluralism ’ in all schools , including the so-called all-white schools which hitherto had maintained the stance of ‘ No problem ( i.e. blacks ) here ’ . |
| 13 | In the political sphere Soviet military activism had soured the détente relationship with the West by infringing on areas which hitherto had not experienced Soviet military involvement . |
| 14 | In spite of this attitude by some of the die-hards , more and more money was being spent on new craft and equipment and our Technical Branch , which hitherto had concentrated on the maintenance on our fleet of small boarding launches , was being geared up to deal with the new cutter fleet . |
| 15 | With the decline in the herring fishing , followed by a complete ban on all herring catching in an endeavour to build up stocks again , the pelagic catchers turned their attentions to mackerel which hitherto had been despised as food in the North of Scotland . |
| 16 | Her young men hitherto had been in the City , or in advertising , chartered accountancy , or even television . |
| 17 | I hope that that demonstrates that the persistence of my hon. Friend has , if nothing else , at least found the receipt that hitherto had been missing . |
| 18 | Announcing the changes , Ratsiraka also said that he favoured lifting restrictions on political parties , which hitherto had been required to belong to the FNDR . |
| 19 | The principal author of the market reform programme , Abalkin was booed and slow hand-clapped during an impassioned speech in which he declared that the party hitherto had failed socialist ideals in every respect , and would be swept aside if it stood in the way of a market economy . |
| 20 | However , the Colorados ' Batllismo Radical faction , which hitherto had had one representative in the Cabinet pulled out of the coalition . |
| 21 | Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) . |
| 22 | Andrejevs , who hitherto had headed Latvia 's observer delegation to the Council of Europe , spoke of the need to " restore the independence of Latvia and the rights of the indigenous population , while … maintaining the rights of people of other nationalities " . |
| 23 | As the risk and returns of most of the assets can not be observed the tests hitherto had been biased . |
| 24 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 25 | He had bought a copy of The Times before he had come to The Randolph that morning , but hitherto had not even glanced at the headlines . |
| 26 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 27 | This programme promotes creativity and the cross-fertilisation of ideas and initiatives throughout the company , building teams able to create and accept challenges which hitherto had seemed impossible . |
| 28 | If members opposite had their way it would be very difficult to do business here . |
| 29 | The great metal roof-tree which held the house together had bent inwards as though from some giant 's blow , and listening , Rachel could hear tiles still slithering down the slope and crashing into the street forty feet below . |
| 30 | In 1982 they could desert Mr Schmidt for Mr Kohl because they and the Christian Democrats together had a majority in the Bundestag , the lower house . |