Example sentences of "[Wh det] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was accused of involvement in one of two failed military coups in Morocco which had attempted to overthrow King Hassan II . |
| 2 | Bernini is evidently attempting to render something quite transcendental and something which had never been attempted by a sculptor before that date . |
| 3 | He belonged to a family of immigrant Jews which had fled to a Glasgow tenement and a community of Yiddish-speakers within the city . |
| 4 | This is a male view of the matter , in which women are attacked , and which had me admiring these ugly sisters . |
| 5 | In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic . |
| 6 | Ackroyd 's Wilde complains of the ‘ sordid ’ interpretations of his conduct which had influenced the outcome of his trial , while himself , on other occasions , interpreting his conduct as sordid . |
| 7 | Soon after Hamilton 's battle-scarred book came out , moreover , in the spring of 1988 , there appeared in Britain a kind of memoir entitled The Facts-A Novelist 's Autobiography in which the issue was addressed in some passages of exceptional interest — the gaze and forehead of Olympian Zeus after the outcries and the special and professional pleading which had surrounded all but one of these other events . |
| 8 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 9 | Provincial cities which had ten to twelve theatres now have one or two and probably there were double the number of actors at that time . |
| 10 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 11 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 12 | This has a clear relationship with Pius XI 's teaching , eight years earlier on the same subject : ‘ the very fountainhead from which the State draws its life , namely , wedlock and the family ’ ( 1929 : 14 ) , and with the dispositions of the then current Code of Canon Law which had come into effect in 1917 : ‘ The marriage of baptized persons is governed not only by divine law but also by church law . |
| 13 | Again , it was clear that the ministers and their parliamentary colleagues , many of whom in any case disliked the scheme , would not pass into legislation any bill which had been declared contrary to church teaching by the bishops . |
| 14 | Having acquired a sufficient number of signatures , the Campaign submitted their referendum proposal , which the government of the day , the Fine Gael — Labour coalition under Garret FitzGerald which had come into power that year , decided to submit to the populace . |
| 15 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 16 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 17 | Something which had not been there three years ago now existed . |
| 18 | These establishments were divided into inns , alehouses and taverns which had separate and distinct functions . |
| 19 | The 19th century witnessed the evolution of public and saloon bars ; the introduction of bar , or counter , rather than waiter , service ; and the legal licensing of premises , all of which had profound effects on pub design . |
| 20 | French-style café-bars have been a runaway success over here because they address a market which had previously been actively excluded by the ‘ pub tradition ’ — namely women . |
| 21 | As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve . |
| 22 | But by the time he had gathered up her handbag and Lord Woodleigh 's camera , which had come to rest nearby , she was able slowly to make her way with them to the nearest point where the accident could be reported . |
| 23 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 24 | One was kept in Kathleen 's office and the other one , which had my regular clothes in it , I kept with me in my broom cupboard . |
| 25 | I had n't given up , but that was an ever-present temptation which had to be fought . |
| 26 | Furthermore , a fear of revolution on the lines of that which had occurred in France still loomed large in the minds of the new English bourgeoisie , underpinning the demand for an organized police system geared to the protection of the life and property of the ruling classes ( Reiner 1985 ) . |
| 27 | S.U. was to be encouraged , eliminating chains of assessment and decision making which had lain within the purview of the superintendent . |
| 28 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 29 | It all becomes uncomfortably apparent and that which had been lived and accepted is opened up in a revelatory manner , so that the vice of being caught up within the hegemonies of such a system designed to control a powerless underclass can become overbearing . |
| 30 | That which had been so familiar to me and accepted almost without thinking now took on a new and almost bizzare aspect . |