Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his acceptance speech , Mr. Mates thanked all the East Hampshire District Council staff who had taken part in the count and to all those who had manned the 51 polling stations . |
| 2 | For while the royal bureaucrats gained the upper hand in fact , the other classes in the community who had upheld the medieval constitutionalism the barons and the free towns , and above all the church — developed secularized versions of natural law . |
| 3 | And now , slumped in the rich-smelling old leather of Stanley 's back seat , he felt like a rabbit who had escaped the human cordon . |
| 4 | In June 1963 , Pope John XXIII , the Pope who had called the second Vatican Council , died . |
| 5 | Still in the realm of half-backs , the original conclusion from the post-match inquest into who had called the back-row move which led indirectly to that heartbreaking injury to Craig Chalmers — that it had come from half-back — was subsequently rescinded . |
| 6 | He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop . |
| 7 | The theology of Paracelsus celebrated the mercy of a God who had granted the human mind sufficient illumination to cultivate nature and to extract those gifts necessary for subsistence . |
| 8 | In June he replaced an enlightened Minister of Education with an admiral who had conducted the Russian mission to Japan during the Crimean War and was identified in the public mind with oriental despotism . |
| 9 | They had been caught up with at Dornock , east of Annan , on the shore of the Solway , by a fast-riding English host under Sir Anthony de Lucy of Cockermouth , who had crossed the shallow firth at lowest tide by the temporarily dried-out Knockeross sands , from Bowness in Cumberland . |
| 10 | Habré stated that five seats in the National Assembly would be allocated to women who had achieved the highest number of votes as runners-up , to join the two women who had succeeded in being elected . |
| 11 | Dorothy had dealt with both of them , aided by Isobel 's giddy young sister-in-law , who had explained the social nuances of it all by saying : ‘ That pair of grasping alley cats would tear the eyes out of anyone who managed to make the social pages of the Tollemarche Advent on a day when they should have been featured . |
| 12 | General Erich von Falkenhayn , who had replaced the discredited Moltke as Chief of Staffon 14 September 1914 , determined as a first measure to reduce the fortress of Antwerp , where King Albert , with the tenacious Belgian Field Army of six divisions , had taken refuge in August . |
| 13 | This was Tafari Makonnen , the future Emperor Haile Selassie , who had replaced the detested Dedjazmatch Balcha as Governor of Harar in 1911 . |
| 14 | There was a request to Council to investigate the position of those who had completed the first module but were not registered and whether they should be allowed to attend the Keele Conference . |
| 15 | For next the stewards decided that only those drivers who had completed the first lap would be allowed to re-start . |
| 16 | The team member on duty who had completed the initial referral form was also responsible for completing the pre-coded questionnaire . |
| 17 | Twelve thousand Spanish families who had served the French kingship followed Joseph across the Pyrenees after the battle of Vitoria . |
| 18 | Most initiatives arose from the ‘ movement left ’ — that amorphous network of local groupings , cultural ventures and autonomous campaigns that was the legacy of the libertarian revolts of the late 1960s and early 1970s — rather than from within the existing labour movement ( apart from the Institute for Workers ' Control , which in the mid-1970s looked as though it might become a major national forum for the newer movements of the 1970s and the earlier generation of intellectuals and trade unionists who had quit the Communist Party after 1956 ) . |
| 19 | Some in Europe who had maintained the Yellow Sword declared it was an extremely difficult fish , only giving birth to about 20 very week fry — which often died in the first few weeks . |
| 20 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 21 | The man who had run the neighbouring Radio Clyde in Glasgow moved south to London 's Capital Radio . |
| 22 | Held , dismissing the action , that a release by accord and satisfaction of one covenantor operated as a release of all other covenantors undertaking the same obligation ; that the landlord 's acceptance of the immediate surrender of the lease and the goods listed in satisfaction for releasing M. from all his liabilities under the lease was clearly a release by accord and satisfaction ; that there were no words of reservation or circumstances rebutting that construction ; and that the landlord had therefore released not merely M. but also the defendant company , as an intermediate assignee who had undertaken the same obligation ( post , pp. 483B–H , 484C ) . |
| 23 | They concluded that , in schools where a high proportion of teachers spent over half their week teaching one specific subject , and in schools where a high proportion of the teaching was undertaken by teachers who had studied the relevant subject as a major element in their initial training — in other words , where there was a strong degree of subject match standards of work were better ( to a statistically significant degree ) . |
| 24 | In the months following the end of the civil war , parliament 's New Model Army , which contained large numbers of soldiers who had rejected the Presbyterian establishment in favour of greater religious toleration , grew steadily more and more disenchanted with its masters . |
| 25 | After two days of debate , an extraordinary session of Congress approved the national budget for 1992 on Jan. 7 , overruling President Alberto Keinya Fujimori , who had rejected the original draft on the grounds of its inflationary implications for the economy . |
| 26 | European philosophers who had rejected the Christian religion had , he believed , rejected a corrupt form . |
| 27 | The point was that the journalist 's investigative purpose was sufficiently served by the declaration , and that he did not need to know ( and had no sufficient interest in knowing ) the identities of the justices who had heard the particular case . |
| 28 | He opposed the Arminians and gave evidence to the Lords as one who had heard the notorious sermon at St Giles by the king 's chaplain , Roger Manwaring [ q.v. ] ( 1628–9 ) . |
| 29 | Immediately my father started matching me with all kinds of licensed murderous thugs , and one in particular who had become the amateur flyweight champion of Scotland . |
| 30 | There I found nurses in tow , and the pilots who had flown the private jet , and a crew of translators , and some inscrutable domestic staff . |