Example sentences of "[adv] had [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) . |
| 2 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |
| 3 | One US daily had found the previous year that claims about Iran 's original Fao offensive were contradictory and that ‘ neither assertion can be confirmed ’ . |
| 4 | A red lens in ormolu casing was clamped over his left eye , and perhaps had replaced the original jelly organ . |
| 5 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
| 6 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 7 | Instead she had leant even more on him and he just could n't take it , so had chosen the easy way out . |
| 8 | The corridor they had travelled along had turned an abrupt corner and then ended at a blank , curved wall . |
| 9 | To Leonard , who long had felt the masterful power of passion — when the guests become tyrants — Layton 's honesty was as refreshing as his candour was liberating . |
| 10 | Up on the flank of the Down the rabbits ' shadows were lying long across the thymy ground and the beeches on Ridgery Edge high above had caught the flat sun on their lettuce-green leaves . |
| 11 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 12 | Certainly the letters he had written home had made no great fuss about the child 's death . |
| 13 | Results announced on Oct. 6 showed that 35 seats had been taken by outspoken critics of the government , described by the Washington Post as " drawn from a diverse group of Islamists , secular liberals and traditional politicians " , 15 of whom were said to be from districts which traditionally had supported the ruling family . |
| 14 | This marked a significant departure from previous foreign policy priorities which traditionally had made the Soviet Union the first place to be visited by a new Prime Minister . |
| 15 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 16 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
| 17 | if the way this discussion had worked out had got the strategic site policy on the table today as a discussion item , and if we were able to get clear that such a strategic site policy if it existed was in addition to the |
| 18 | They had done nothing to diminish Britain 's isolationist attitude , and simultaneously had confirmed the widespread belief that any British proposal was a wolf in sheep 's clothing . |
| 19 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 20 | Despair : he had , he really had thrown the whole bag in a bin . |
| 21 | To her mind , Travis McKenna was definitely Mr Wrong … and yet today had brought a shivering awareness of him as a man — and herself as a woman . |
| 22 | Growers here had expected a bumper season . |
| 23 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 24 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 25 | With the help of his father , John built the Nautilus , 38ft long and one of the earliest boats to be driven by a screw propeller , and it outpaced all the steamers which followed the University Boat Race between Putney and Mortlake , which by then had become an annual event in the spring of each year . |
| 26 | And then had come the awful perception that Helen too was vulnerable ; he had seen her exposed , humiliated , disappointed . |
| 27 | Then had come the only question Bess Halidon was ever to ask about the incident . |
| 28 | Five floods at least had fertilised the Black Land since her departure in the Boat of the Night . |
| 29 | Indians and seringueiros alike had become the virtual slaves of the rubber barons and their descendants , who suppresed the indigenous people 's culture and kept the imported labourers in debt bondage . |
| 30 | But the pope , who two years earlier had confirmed the forged privilege guaranteeing the existence of the monastic community at Canterbury , warily told him to have the matter of the primacy discussed in a provincial council in the presence of a papal legate . |