Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [noun] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier a smaller number of Cardiff supporters had run on to the pitch in celebration of their side 's equaliser in a game which the Welsh club eventually won 4–2 . |
| 2 | The population of Dronfield township had grown steadily from 1,182 in 1801 to 2,998 in 1861 . |
| 3 | SWIMMERS were turned away from Colchester Leisure World because a film crew under the direction of Alan Bleasdale had taken over the fitness pool . |
| 4 | The memory of Candace Rainford had helped there , and she had to admit it . |
| 5 | Last winter , in Minsk , the voice of Alexander Blok had come through — so people told him afterwards ; he had no recollection . |
| 6 | In the work of Cadaquès Picasso had moved ahead of Braque with characteristic impetuosity , and then late in 1911 , when Picasso 's painting is once again comparatively legible , Braque had in turn produced a series of unusually elaborate and highly personal paintings ( of which the Man with Violin ( discussed above ) and the still life Soda in the Museum of Modern Art in New York are good examples ) which represent the most hermetic stage of his Cubism and which have no counterpart in the work of Picasso . |
| 7 | Trent Polytechnic and the Polytechnic of North London had come forward with proposals for full-time BEd courses . |
| 8 | Ivory reached the west partly from Egypt but also , after the Arab conquerors of North Africa had opened up the trans-Saharan route from Tunisia by way of Chad to the Niger , directly from equatorial Africa . |
| 9 | If the proposed buy-out of RJR Nabisco had gone ahead , the seven top executives would have stood to make up to $3 billion . |
| 10 | While the papacy of Pope Paul had remained uncomfortably unidentified with either ‘ progressive ’ or ‘ conservative ’ , that of John Paul became increasingly closely tied to the latter , and at times in a state of not much less than guerrilla war with the ‘ magisterium ’ of the Church 's principal theologians : a truly strange position for a pope to be in . |
| 11 | Indeed , even if supervision of Barlow Clowes had passed seamlessly from the DTI to the Financial Intermediaries , Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association ( FIMBRA ) there can be no guarantee the warning signs at Barlow Clowes , from intermingled funds to accounting inconsistencies , would have been unearthed . |
| 12 | He argued that the success of US multinationals had become much less dependent upon US hegemony and challenged Gilpin 's earlier claims ( 1971 : p. 54 ) that ‘ a diminution of the pax Americana and the rise of powers hostile to the global activities of multinational corporations would bring their reign over international economic relations to an end ’ . |
| 13 | Two of the first three games of the 1976 tour were easily won , so that any English optimist who thought that their Australian experiences might have knocked the stuffing out of West Indies had to ponder anew . |
| 14 | Town planning especially in the Hellenistic cities of Asia Minor had become more important . |
| 15 | Before spawning in this artfully arranged cave , this pair of C. labiatum had cleared right down to the undergravel plate . |
| 16 | A character and an era of Saltash history had passed away . |
| 17 | In the years after the partition of Poland Pomerania had become increasingly divorced from the bulk of the Polish population ; the policies of Germanisation and of steady cultural absorption had done their work . |
| 18 | But in the wake of the personal file of Mikhail Holovich had come further instructions and briefings over the teleprinter in his office . |
| 19 | Tourism authorities responded quickly to reports of the attack by issuing assurances that policing of Dublin streets had increased significantly during the past year and that crime against tourists had dropped by a third . |