Example sentences of "[adj] had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had risen to 63% of the sample at the age of one year . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 3 | All this had passed into history by the close of the 19th Century . |
| 4 | This had arrived by telegram from Lieutenant Colonel Dr J. Gibson Graham , RAMC . |
| 5 | This had opened in Fulham in 1945 , but soon moved into the buildings formerly occupied by St John 's Wood Art Schools where it became a vital centre for those interested in French art . |
| 6 | Until the mid-1960s , studies of this had concentrated on surveys of the home backgrounds of the children . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By the end of the fifteenth century many chantries had served their term : some had dissolved through lack of maintenance on the part of the families concerned , while others disappeared through amalgamation ; so that by the time of the suppression there were not more than 200 spread among the City churches . |
| 9 | Apprenticeship and skilled employment committees of one sort or another had existed in London since the 1860s and 1870s when the Jewish Board of Guardians decided to organize apprenticeship schemes for their own young workers . |
| 10 | Sitting with Alice , drinking coffee , they told her how hundreds had marched in London against the polluting of a certain stretch of shore . |
| 11 | Before 1242–3 Henry III had journeyed to France in order to recover his lands by military force . |
| 12 | Counsel for the defenders submitted essentially that the Lord Ordinary had erred in law in concluding that the declaration in the application form was part of a contract between the pursuers and the Alliance Building Society to which the provisions of the act applied , rather than concluding that the declaration was non-contractual in character and accordingly not caught by the provisions of the act so far as applicable to Scotland . |
| 13 | With less extensive retirement pension or company welfare schemes , those 16 per cent of males who in 1979 had spent in excess of 20 years in one small firm paid a heavy price for their continuity of employment . |
| 14 | The third proposal before the EEC involved the finalisation of the financial regulations concerning the adjustment of the several national agricultures , on which the Six had agreed in principle in 1962 . |
| 15 | Rivalry between the respective leaders , Campeanu and Ratiu , who already in 1984 had competed in exile for the leadership of the World Union of Free Romanians , prevented any agreement over a joint presidential candidate . |
| 16 | By the end of 1986 there had been 84 reported decisions on the 1977 Act in the High Court and 41 of these had gone in favour of the homeless . |
| 17 | These had expanded in intensity after the First World War , with extensive housing development in the areas served . |
| 18 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 19 | Three of these had let off part of their land , and five others had rented some themselves . |
| 20 | But , in March 1120 , the monks of St Augustine 's obtained a papal privilege allowing them to ring their bells to their hearts ' content , however much they annoyed their neighbours over the wall ; more to the point , this privilege quoted four papal privileges of the seventh to tenth centuries , all of them forgeries and one of them a forgery either derived from , or the source of , the very privilege of Pope Boniface IV which Alexander II had quoted to Lanfranc in 1070 . |
| 21 | Chevaline in all had risen in cost from £350 m. in 1974 to over £1 billion by 1982 , on top of the Polaris missile programme-even though by this time US-Soviet arms limitation agreements had made Chevaline redundant . |
| 22 | All had come under pressure from constituents , Tory officials and MPs . |
| 23 | The Emergency Laws passed following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 had allowed for detention without trial of up to 60 days and for the banning of certain public gatherings . |
| 24 | But both kings did benefit from public gatherings of bishops and great men , largely though not exclusively from within the duchy of Francia , on the model of the assembly Philip I had called to Orléans in 1077 . |
| 25 | The former had come to Chant in a derelict house in Clerkenwell ; about that there was no ambiguity . |
| 26 | Although Betsy and her two younger sisters were reared in one of the better-off families of Saltcoats , she had a love of the sea and ships and from the age of 15 had gone on trips on Clytus as often as her parents allowed . |
| 27 | If we go back to the education example , and suppose that the first vote is between L and M , then if the rich vote sincerely L wins , and in the second round H defeats L. On the other hand , if the rich had voted for M in the first round , then M would have gone on to win in the second round . |
| 28 | These tactics were necessary because the major national political issues of 1935 had proved in practice to be disastrous flops for the BUF . |
| 29 | Of the three Mölln victims two had lived in Germany for many years and the youngest had been born in Mölln . |
| 30 | The agreement , reached after a meeting on Oct. 10-11 had ended in deadlock over the issue of Soviet tank quotas , followed a decision by the Soviet Union to cut its allocation of tanks by 150 to 13,150 and its artillery by 500 to 13,200 pieces . |