Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adj] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 13 it was reported that a Manila judge had dismissed 11 of the 39 charges against Marcos on the grounds that the government 's de-regulation of foreign exchange dealings had removed the court 's authority to hear charges relating to currency violations arising from the overseas bank accounts held by Marcos . |
| 2 | But what is of greater Baldwin significance is the clear indication that at this stage he had developed little of the pervading antipathy to wards Lloyd George which was to be the making of his own career . |
| 3 | The new Milanese opera , Lucio Silla ( another opera seria ) had been partly written during the summer in Salzburg , but Mozart could not complete it until he had heard each of the principal soloists , and was able to adjust his arias and recitatives to suit individual voices . |
| 4 | It reminded me of the ghost in the horror film I had heard some of the older children talking about . |
| 5 | Bushes of prickly blackberry and wild rose had broken free of the lower level and were now marching towards the house like an insidious green army . |
| 6 | But neither the king nor the bishops of England had recognized either of the rival candidates to the papacy . |
| 7 | Whereas Charles Paris , who knew that he had given one of the best performances of his career in The Hooded Owl , was a name that the punters would n't know from a bar of soap . |
| 8 | A hastily assembled group of the famous 75s had been pushed forward on to Froideterre , and its lethal barrage had given one of the fresh divisions of XX Corps just enough time to move up through the ebbing debris of de Bonneval 's 37th African Division and establish a firm line from Bras to Haudromont . |
| 9 | Flaherty took a drop more of the giants ' mulled wine than was good for him and very nearly disgraced his fellows by reciting an extremely improper poem , describing the exploits of a fair maiden who had fallen foul of a wicked and lustfully intentioned knight , but who had then escaped by invoking a demon who withered the knight 's passion . |
| 10 | Crowe 's long-standing ambition to secure the lease of the royal ironworks in the Forest of Dean was finally rewarded in 1635 when he and his partners obtained the lease after the existing lessees had fallen foul of the royal forest jurisdiction . |
| 11 | Control of the Moscow soviet had been won by the Democratic Russia coalition of radical groups , with 281 of the 468 seats , and in Leningrad a similar grouping known as Democratic Elections " 90 had won 355 of the 400 seats [ see p. 37322 ] . |
| 12 | The main loser in the election was Rengo-no-Kai , a loose political movement backed by Japan 's largest labour organization , which , shortly after its formation in 1989 , had won 11 of the 12 seats which it had contested in the upper house elections . |
| 13 | Laar 's party had won 29 of the 101 parliamentary seats in the September elections and with Moderates and the Estonian National Independence Party constituted the majority in the new parliament . |
| 14 | The Financial Times of Sept. 22 reported that pro-Chinese associations had won 12 of the 16 elective seats . |
| 15 | The UDHK had won 12 of the 18 directly elected seats in the September 1991 elections to the Legislative Council [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 16 | In the first round Aristide 's National Front for Change and Democracy ( NFCD ) had won 25 of the 110 seats in the two legislative chambers , while 13 went to the National Alliance for Democracy and Progress ( ANDP ) led by Marc Bazin and Serge Gilles . |
| 17 | England had failed to qualify for the finals , Scotland had defeated Wales in an emotional match at Liverpool 's Anfield Stadium and Ally McLeod , a supremely patriotic manager given to hyperbole and heart-wrenching nationalism had amassed one of the finest footballing sides for years . |
| 18 | The list had included most of the significant contemporary Danish artists and this behaviour apparently demonstrates , as Kunstavisen remarks , ‘ that artists today are more preoccupied by money than by the art they are making ’ . |
| 19 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 20 | In Robin Hood 's day , Sherwood Forest had occupied one-fifth of the whole area of Nottinghamshire . |
| 21 | Efforts continued to establish a harmonization of European accounting practices , in accordance with the Fourth and Seventh Company Law Directives ( 1978 and 1983 respectively ) , the first of which had created the Contact Committee of officials , the standards body which had originated most of the current proposals ( but which was still not recognized by many EC members ) , while the second had included measures to standardize the presentation of consolidated accounts within the EC ( see p. 36154 for earlier developments ) . |
| 22 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 23 | Fifty-four members had been returned to local councils while in certain local authorities , notably the Rhondda Urban District , the Communist vote had approached that of the Labour Party . |
| 24 | This followed assurances that no authority seeking a redetermination should suffer a reduced spending level , fear of which had prevented any of the selected authorities from appealing in the first year of operation . |
| 25 | On July 5 it was announced that the ruling Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) had secured five of the 10 mayoralities of provincial capitals which had been left undecided in June pending investigations into alleged voting irregularities . |
| 26 | ‘ She knew if she had attended one of the public services she would have been the centre of attention and the last thing she wanted was to be photographed as the woman alone . |
| 27 | They had had faith , they had seen Jesus perform miracles , they had seen him heal the sick , they had seen him give sight to the blind , they had seen some of the tremendous things that Jesus had done . |
| 28 | The 1920s in Europe , at least , had seen some of the same romanticism about leaving technically advanced civilization as occurred again in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 29 | Earlier in the week their Paddling Challenge , the oldest canoe race in the world , had seen several of the overseas competitors joining in without stopping even to unload their vehicles when they arrived and being joined by a number of prominent paddlers from the past . |
| 30 | They had made sure of the few proprietors between there and Dunkeld ; the Duke of Atholl 's authority was weaker here ; tomorrow would be the hard day when they made a drive up to Moulin and Faskally : perhaps they should go and terrify them now while darkness made them lonely ? |