Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin 's declaration for Protection had the immediate effect of reuniting the two sections of the Liberal Party around the historic cause of Free Trade , and Asquith and Lloyd George came together at public meetings to exchange insincere pleasantries . |
| 2 | Now he acknowledged to himself that his admiration for Sarah had caused him to overlook young Martha 's attractions . |
| 3 | For a recent example , see Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , where a dispute about damages was referred to accountants by an agreement entered into after the parties ' dispute about liability had been settled by some other method ; there had been no prior agreement in the original contract to refer to an expert . |
| 4 | Anglicans and Protestants now not only heard the first systematic teaching on the word of God in the Church ever formulated by a Catholic Council ( for Trent had only dealt with particular points at issue with the Reformers ) , but also admired it . |
| 5 | be it nineteen eighty five or nineteen eighty six , it may not matter , did you know previous to that in February nineteen eighty seven , he as chairman had given instructions that this brochure should be withdrawn , did you know that ? |
| 6 | Arguably , the growth of headhunting in Britain stemmed from the success of the sales and publicity efforts of individual headhunters themselves , operating in newly responsive market conditions where a need for change had already been recognised . |
| 7 | Firstly , the endorsement of penal as distinct from prison reform implied that the target for change had shifted from the prison to the criminal justice process as a whole . |
| 8 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
| 9 | The white official parliamentary opposition Conservative Party leader , Andries Treurnicht , said in a strongly worded statement that de Klerk 's plans for change had plunged whites into " a struggle for our freedom " to defend " our people 's claim to its own country and right to self-government " . |
| 10 | The political groundwork for change had been laid by the " realistic rents " policy applied to the public sector by the Housing Subsidies Act 1956 . |
| 11 | The last proposal for change had come from France on the grounds of weather being better later in the season but it was decided then to leave fixtures in their present slots from January-March . |
| 12 | Also rejecting the contention that no case for change had been made , he declared : ‘ Party politics is not on the agenda of reform . |
| 13 | At the end of World War II , GCHQ , as GCCS had become , moved from its wartime headquarters at Bletchley Park , north of London , to Cheltenham , where it swiftly sprawled over two large sites — Oakley and Benhall . |
| 14 | However , it also meant that the sort of movements which normally flow through Clough had to be accurate to the point of perfection if they were not to be enmeshed in blue shirts . |
| 15 | A roster for crusts had to be started as these contained more bread than the average thin slice . |
| 16 | The term he had spent at school trying to understand the first thing about physics had been wasted . |
| 17 | The Committee agreed to consider a larger amount when all the applications for funding had been presented . |
| 18 | He liked best the stormy winter evenings when , working late , he could see the lights of shipping prinking the horizon as they made their way down the coast to the Yarmouth lanes , and see the flashing lightships and the beam from Happisburgh Lighthouse , which for generations had warned mariners of the treacherous offshore sands . |
| 19 | Even the most powerful of the Duke 's vassals , the Counts of Angoulême , who for generations had been accustomed to act as though they were independent princes , had twice conceded defeat , in 1176 and 1179 . |
| 20 | These for generations had remained distinct in their administration , their laws and their economic institutions . |
| 21 | The result was the abolition in February 1844 of the Secret Office which for generations had been intercepting letters of possible interest to the government . |
| 22 | It would certainly be improper for the governors to go into the medical or educational case history on which the call for provision had been based . |
| 23 | By the end of September stripping to bare metal of the lower nose area for inspection had sadly also removed half of the nose art and the aircraft was completely gutted as the VMMU got to grips with their final overhaul . |
| 24 | Gloria said , ‘ If you want to use the Smiths ' swimming pool , ’ — for Nutty had told her quite plainly that she did — ‘ friday night is your night . |
| 25 | Swod pursed his lips with faint irascibility : his ‘ bon mot ’ about Mills had not been as conclusive as he hoped . |
| 26 | Life for Ginger had become a roller-coaster but she was a survivor . |
| 27 | These Courts held that since the Arab Organization for Industrialisation had its own legal identity separate from the four member States and enjoyed financial , procedural , and administrative autonomy , the latter could not be bound by obligations entered into on behalf of the Organisation . |
| 28 | Alone in the dining room — for Twomey had stopped softly jangling spoons and forks and fitting plates each to each , and gone , quietly as his shadow — Nicandra 's mind became a perfect blank . |
| 29 | The Bill in the course of its transit through Parliament had been radically altered so that the eventual enactment bore little resemblance to the Bill which was originally drafted . |
| 30 | There was no-one in the room at the time for Murray had only newly lit the fire and the table was still unlaid apart from the great branching candelabra like silver trees . |