Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [be] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 2 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 3 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 4 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 5 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 6 | If there was some other difficulty in obtaining all the required signatories to the election within the time limit and the Revenue had been notified of this and that each of the signatories had decided to make an election within the time limit , a late election will be accepted . |
| 7 | The three individuals were all ‘ phoned by a sultry female voice informing them that their bid had been matched by another . |
| 8 | If anyone in the club had been left with any doubt that you and I are in love , that touching little display on the dance floor must have convinced them otherwise . ’ |
| 9 | If the human mind had been created in such a way that it was matched to the intelligibility of nature , then the possibility of secure scientific knowledge could be affirmed . |
| 10 | All the same , Cissie was right in one assumption : Beth 's peace of mind had been shattered on that particular day . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , enough weight had been given by several sources to make it worthwhile checking . |
| 12 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 13 | Each practice was given the results of the study for all their participating patients after the study had been completed in that practice . |
| 14 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 15 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 16 | This method of examining the data has not been employed in the previous studies because no attempt had been made in those studies to be representative in the sampling of direction of turn at each junction ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 17 | One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities . |
| 18 | So this two bedroomed apartment in a hotel complex had been borrowed from some golfing friend of Mike 's , and here she was to stay until Mike could get her back home to London . |
| 19 | There was considerable debate as to whether any crime had been committed after all . |
| 20 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 21 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 22 | Along the crest of this ridge the rock had been exposed in several places , and eroded into a line of towers and pinnacles . |
| 23 | There was a hint that the threat of revocation had been used in this and other communications with difficult councils . |
| 24 | By March 1992 , no legal action had been taken against those responsible . |
| 25 | The questions , listed for today in the Commons order paper , ask whether the fraud squad had the copy , if any disciplinary action had been taken against any officer and whether criminal inquiries are being pursued . |
| 26 | A Scotland Yard spokesman said no disciplinary action had been taken against any officers and that nobody had been suspended . |
| 27 | Many parents of potential boy soldiers , sailors and airmen would have been very reluctant to allow their sons to join the armed forces if homosexuality had been allowed among those who were to train them . |
| 28 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 29 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 30 | This was a laborious process and probably the equivalent of a week 's hard work had been expended on this stone before it was abandoned . |