Example sentences of "[adj] had [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one practice had employed a person ( part time ) with the title ‘ financial advisor , ’ and this had caused friction with the existing practice manager . |
| 2 | When asked if this had involved contacts with the Iranian government he replied : " Not by me . " |
| 3 | A separate presidential decree of June 30 had restored citizenship to the exiled writers Vladimir Maximov , Zhores Medvedev and Aleksandr Zinoviev . |
| 4 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
| 5 | The Burmese had appeared content with the constitutional timetable until Mountbatten 's announcement that India and Pakistan would become independent — as Dominions — in mid-August . |
| 6 | Just as the closing of the pleasure houses of the 1870s had thrown prostitutes onto the streets , so the suppression of brothels after 1885 probably increased street prostitution , at the same time pushing prostitutes into massage parlours and flats , and into the arms of ‘ bullies ’ , who became mythical figures of popular fears in the new moral panic over the white slave trade before 1912 . |
| 7 | The Declaration undoubtedly broke new constitutional ground when it stated that " the raising or keeping of a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace unless it be with the consent of Parliament is against the law " ; the Militia Acts of 1661 and 1662 had invested control of the armed forces in the hands of the monarch alone with no suggestion that Parliamentary consent was needed to maintain an army in peace time . |
| 8 | Only around 10 per cent claimed to recall the contents well and even fewer had made use of the response sheets provided on it . |
| 9 | Certainly the Communists ' role since 1941 had expunged memories of the Hitler-Stalin Pact period when they had opposed the French war effort . |
| 10 | But although the educational services were supplied to only a few inmates , several of these were undertaking advanced work : three had completed BAs over the past few years , another an MA , and nine were embarking upon university degrees by correspondence . |
| 11 | During March nearly half the total eastern German shipbuilding workforce of 20,000 had occupied yards in the region in protest at their sale to several different companies . |
| 12 | The army mutiny of 1964 had created fears about the country 's stability and produced a greater intolerance of dissent . |
| 13 | All had undergone injection of the pancreatic duct , three had repeat injections , and two had overfilling resulting in acinar opacification . |
| 14 | Halfway through , Corporal Vigno decided that we were slacking so we all had to do press-ups on the gravel , perched on our clenched fists . |
| 15 | Proprietors the House of Lords reversed a decision made by the Lord Chancellor , Lord Cottenham , when the latter had affirmed decrees by the Vice-Chancellor in relation to a company in which the Lord Chancellor held some shares . |
| 16 | On May 20 the human rights organization Amnesty International had expressed concern at the lack of access of defence counsel and the " selection " process for the 200 detainees waiting to be tried . |
| 17 | A year earlier , on Feb. 28 , 1989 , the international human rights organization Amnesty International had made allegations concerning the imprisonment and torture of children in Iraqi prisons . |
| 18 | The early part of 1992 had seen controversy within the government over policy and the government 's composition . |
| 19 | After Alexander the Great had regained independence for the Ionian cities he initiated the building of a new and large temple , dedicated to Apollo , on the site of the earlier building . |
| 20 | After obliging the last autonomous ruler of the Ukrainian heartland to resign ( in 1764 ) and breaking up the Ukrainian Cossacks ( in 1775 ) , Catherine the Great had subjected Ukrainians to the poll tax and extended to their territory her reform of Russian provincial administration . |
| 21 | Official figures from the Interim National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) , chaired by Mr Justice Ofori-Boateng , showed that Ghana 's electorate totalled an estimated 8,255,056 , of whom 3,090,020 had cast votes in the 200 constituencies of Ghana 's 10 regions . |
| 22 | Handy had left McKinsey over the issue of the status of the executive search function within the organisation . |
| 23 | DRTF1/E2F binding activity was only detected in the anti-Rb immunoprecipitates ( compare tracks 2 to 3 ) ; the JM cell extract depleted with anti-Rb had reduced levels of the Rb complex ( compare tracks 4 to 5 , depleted complex indicated by ‘ a ’ ) . |
| 24 | The ministers had expressed their concern over the conflict at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in late March [ see p. 38841 ] and a meeting of " experts " from the four Foreign Ministries on March 31 to April 1 had prepared proposals for the Foreign Ministers ' meeting . |
| 25 | But also , by the time the programme drive came to an end [ when the Emergency ended and with it the effective coercive powers of than government ] , millions had suffered harassment at the hands of government officials bent on implementing it , many , perhaps hundreds , had died from it ; the political leaders who had willed it were out of power , and in disrepute , and the programme itself was in total disarray . |
| 26 | Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge . |
| 27 | True , the ‘ Beeching era ’ of the 1960s had brought revolution in the form of Freightliner and unit trains , the latter represented above all by the highly successful ‘ merry-goround ’ concept . |
| 28 | Indeed , only 29 per cent of farmers had actually altered field boundaries between 1949 and 1 978 , and only one-third had reclaimed moorland in the last 7 to 1 5 years , and so the picture that emerges is one of a more dynamic profit-motivated minority replacing a more conservation and landscape-orientated majority where still 56 per cent of farmers are over 50 . |
| 29 | Of the nine H pylori positive uraemic patients , two had oesophagitis , two had scattered petechiae in the stomach and duodenum , and one had erosive duodenitis . |
| 30 | The first surveyed 2,500 individuals of whom about one third had received training in the last 3 years . |