Example sentences of "[ex0] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated . |
| 2 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 3 | There had been no mention of the individual 's property rights in the 1922 constitution . |
| 4 | Already in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , there had been a powerful alignment between rural cultural ethics and church teaching . |
| 5 | If an effective will to de-alienate Northern protestants in their attitudes to the republic existed , and if there had been a real change in the Irish catholic hierarchy 's position on such matters , then they would indeed have taken positive steps to support FitzGerald 's attempt to introduce such constitutional changes . |
| 6 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 7 | Into the Finn 's head there had strayed , not to be expelled , the words of an English nursery rhyme that a child had once recited to him . |
| 8 | There had been a rash of petty thefts in the hotel and we were all warned to be vigilant . |
| 9 | She came up to me with , I noticed , slightly less bounce in her step than there had been the previous day . |
| 10 | A deliciously dotty old lady afternoon : the three other researchers there had at least two hundred and fifty years of living between them . |
| 11 | There had been less between her and Lucy after the ‘ act ’ than ever before . |
| 12 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 13 | ( There had been no plan to illustrate the book , but Leonard talked his friend and fellow-student Freda Guttman into it , and so the book appeared with five designs from her hand ) . |
| 14 | They were building new railways across the world , but there had to be an extraordinary reason to do that in Britain . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , however , it had become clear that there had to be a replacement DMU which was placed midway in size and cost between the railbuses and the 210 units . |
| 16 | ‘ Because of contracts and forward planning , there had to be an orderly change from government monopoly to co-op . ’ |
| 17 | The DTI statement was made after the brewers had agreed to arbitration for their tenants — see page 11 — and some commentators claimed that there had been a trade-off . |
| 18 | If there had been a bolt on my belay at Swanage it would not have been an environmental disaster . |
| 19 | Zobel said that there had been no approaches from Japanese companies wanting to work in the OMI . |
| 20 | The professionalized academic critic wanted to forget that there had been a time when criticism was part of literature ; and the belief that criticism or theory could be literature in themselves was perhaps part of the process of exorcizing other values and attitudes . |
| 21 | The man in charge of the fund , Brigadier Jimmy Chater , admitted that there had been problems with finding and helping Royal Warwickshire POWs , and agreed that the income from the fund exceeded the benefits paid out . |
| 22 | However , it emerged last night that a reporter from London Weekend Television unwittingly tipped off residents about the raid when he phoned contacts on the estate to ask if there had been a raid — before it had actually happened . |
| 23 | Mr Sawyer , chairman of the party 's home policy committee which co-ordinated the work of the seven policy review groups , insisted there had been no sacrifice of principles . |
| 24 | There had been changes in technology , in the workforce and in the class system . |
| 25 | There had to be some missing piece to Jane 's story . |
| 26 | A West German government spokesman said there had been technical hold-ups , but he was confident the refugees would leave soon . |
| 27 | There had been suggestions that directors had jumped the gun by putting a figure to the fraud before Coopers had completed its report . |
| 28 | Mr Meacher said provided there had been a majority ballot decision trade unions must have the full protection of the law to pursue a lawful trade dispute . |
| 29 | Asked whether he had screened the Yugoslavs before they were sent back , he said there had been no requirement under the order . |
| 30 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |