Example sentences of "[num] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other 140 had to rely in varying degrees on transferred votes to provide them with a quota or something approaching it . |
| 2 | The delegate meeting of the STA at Dumfries in 1895 had called upon those branches affected by women 's employment to " exercise their influence in every way to secure the standard wages and fair conditions of employment for female compositors " . |
| 3 | The broadcasting ‘ liberalization ’ phase under ‘ Chaban ’ had ended : the broadcasting law of July 1972 had distinguished between the state monopoly of radio and television broadcasting and the public organization ( ORTF ( entrusted with the monopoly ; the same law increased — on paper — the autonomy of ORTF and the powers of the ‘ MD ’ who became in addition chairman of the board of directors ( 'PDG' ) ; but conflicts arose between the first ‘ PDG ’ , Arthur Conte , and the Information Minister , Philippe Malaud . |
| 4 | Some earlier research in 1972 had led him to believe that very high pressures could be attained , and also that the hydrogen ions behaved as free in the palladium crystal lattice , moving around and probably bumping into one another . |
| 5 | Brinson , before taking over the Gulbenkian Foundation in London in 1972 had chaired an arts committee of the Foundation , set up to discuss and provide financial help to the performing arts , and particularly to dance , which had had , in his words ‘ a raw deal ’ . |
| 6 | The Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 had prescribed regular provincial assemblies for the clergy . |
| 7 | Proceeding up the Madison River , the fugitives entered what in 1872 had become Yellowstone National Park , and were guided east by a captured prospector , John Shively . |
| 8 | The Pawnbrokers Act of 1872 had raised the annual interest chargeable to 25 per cent — a halfpenny a month for every 2s. lent on loans under £2 . |
| 9 | A membership of 700 had evolved in Ohio requiring an embalmer 's licence . |
| 10 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 11 | When the door of room 572 had closed on the two Romanians , they both stood there slightly embarrassed . |
| 12 | US arms negotiators were reported on Jan. 23 as having assured NATO that talks with Russian defence officials in Moscow on Jan. 14-22 had ended in agreement over the safe disposal of nuclear weapons located in the republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 13 | The great office blocks of the 1890s had taken over that role , and the office-block stations had made some attempt to match them . |
| 14 | Then , after his commission to complete Salvin 's Harlaxton in 1834 had introduced him to a far richer vocabulary , came the wonderful sequence of great Jacobean palaces of the 1840s — Falkland ( 1839–41 ) , Whitehill ( 1839–43 ) , Muckross and Stoke Rochford ( both 1841 ) , Dartrey ( 1843 ) , Revesby ( 1844 ) , and Poltalloch ( 1849 ) . |
| 15 | Of these forty-five had received some sort of special training for a diplomatic career , and a good many had studied outside Russia . |
| 16 | A Le Monde report of Feb. 12 had cited refugee sources in Kenya to the effect that ex-President Barre had handed over arms to the SPM in the south . |
| 17 | The Supreme Council on May 12 had defeated Vagnorius 's attempt to pass motions of no confidence in Asmantas and in the chair of the Bank of Lithuania , Vilius Baldisis . |
| 18 | The 80s had arrived , and with it a new form of ‘ exercise ’ which caught on fast . |
| 19 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 20 | All Girls under twenty-one had to get written permission from their parents and although fathers still tended to be against the idea , no one appeared to have committed forgery . |
| 21 | For studying the economy it matters little whether the population of England in the 1520s had recovered to the level it had reached before the Black Death . |
| 22 | These conditions are rendered more precise in a memorandum written by Sir Herbert Samuel at the Conference , after George V had withdrawn . |
| 23 | Political faction had become far more pervasive because the Reformation raised the temperature of Scottish politics , which now took on a focused European dimension , and because once the strong rule of James V had gone , men without the aura of royalty had to struggle with religious and political problems that they had never experienced before . |
| 24 | Henry V had given the war with France a new twist . |
| 25 | Sister Murphy had been the last nurse to be with Sister Edith Cavell , and King George V had honoured her by making her the first to receive a medal for bravery at one of his levees . |
| 26 | It looked as though the repressive policy of James V had died with him , and that Scotland , presided over by Arran and the powerful Hamilton faction , was now moving with almost unbelievable ease towards alliance with England and some measure of Protestant reform . |
| 27 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 28 | Even though James V had brought artillery with him to pound the walls , it made little impression , and in the end the besiegers ran out of gunpowder . |
| 29 | Fortunately , George V had worked well with his father and knew the nature of the current political trends , but he did not wield the same influence internationally as his esteemed father . |
| 30 | James V had failed to subdue the Armstrongs and their kind . |