Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [noun sg] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sihanouk 's return ended almost 13 years in exile , where he had formed part of the tripartite " Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea " with the Khmers Rouges and the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) led by Son Sann . |
| 2 | These texts were often inscribed on woodwork which had formed part of the old rood screens , reredoses , and triptychs ; this was the case at Binham Priory in Norfolk , where the medieval paintings of saints are now showing through the worn whitewash and black-letter Protestant text . |
| 3 | The bilateral agreement signed by Klaus and Meciar in July had foreseen dissolution of the existing state by Sept. 30 , but left several issues unresolved [ see p. 39015 ] . |
| 4 | Perhaps he had heard mention of the reproductive cycle . |
| 5 | Jordanian sources denied that the talks had included discussion of a possible renegotiation of an economic adjustment programme signed in 1989 [ see p. 36602 ] . |
| 6 | Each time she thought she had caught hold of the essential man he turned out to be as nebulous as the sea mist drifting through her fingers . |
| 7 | There was a third thing : he had caught sight of a superior officer : John Coffin . |
| 8 | He had accepted membership of the royal commission on contagious diseases — the first working man ever to be appointed in this capacity — but this led to fierce opposition from within the union 's executive , and Applegarth resigned in April 1871 . |
| 9 | All had undergone injection of the pancreatic duct , three had repeat injections , and two had overfilling resulting in acinar opacification . |
| 10 | ‘ Open ’ villages where landownership was ‘ much divided ’ were receptive to Dissent and so were large parishes where population growth in the outlying parts had made nonsense of the old ecclesiastical arrangements . |
| 11 | Following reports in the Washington Times Paul Balach , a White House political liaison officer for the Labour Secretary , resigned on June 30 , 1989 , acknowledging that he had made use of a homosexual escort service . |
| 12 | John Wright , counsel for Timex Electronics , told the judge the gatherings had produced disorder of an unacceptable level . |
| 13 | John Wright , counsel for Timex Electronics , told the judge the gatherings had produced disorder of an unacceptable level . |
| 14 | The Taylors had told Fen of a short cut to the canal , via the cemetery and an adjacent meadow . |
| 15 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 16 | Hereward Marr had had charge of the spiritual wellbeing , the cure of souls , of three villages . |
| 17 | The sheriff demanded to know how the solicitor had got hold of a confidential social inquiry report . |
| 18 | Anselm had not yet visited Canterbury , but he had got hold of the one thing necessary for understanding the members of the old monastic community : they wanted recognition of their saints and understanding of their tradition . |
| 19 | De Gaulle had got wind of the Allied invasion plan in August 1942 , but he was probably unaware of its full political implications . |
| 20 | General Roberts stated that on 6 May a unit of the ROK army had advanced north of the 38th parallel to a depth of 2.5 miles ( 4 km ) and had attacked several settlements . |
| 21 | Russian advisers had been involved in border incidents but there was no evidence that they had advanced south of the 38th parallel . |
| 22 | Mortimer had betrayed trust of a different kind , in a very different way … after all , her mother 's death had been a tragic stroke of fate . |
| 23 | Desktop publishing had enabled fulfilment of a primary educational aim of the course to integrate theory and practice but challenges remain before the commercial production of electronic ( non-print ) publications can be undertaken by students with equal facility . |
| 24 | The Mandelbaums , who were not strict Orthodox Jews , had lived in Leeds for twenty or thirty years , and through wealth , charm and kindness had become part of a wider social circle than was usual . |
| 25 | What had followed had become part of a continuing nightmare . |
| 26 | But the Mesopotamian Jews had a firm tradition of loyalty to the Seleucids , whereas the Palestinian Jews had become part of the Syrian state only about 200 B.C. The Seleucids gladly used the Mesopotamian Jews as soldiers , and the contribution of the Babylonian Jews to the defence of their city during an enemy attack was regarded as being so famous by the author of II Maccabees that he did not think it necessary to specify the circumstances ( 8.20 ) . |
| 27 | Thus sole agency contracts had become part of the accepted pattern or structure of trade . |
| 28 | They related to the constitutional arrangements which existed between 1974 and the end of 1986 whereby the General Council of the Bar had become part of the new Senate of the Inns of Court of the Bar and had ceased to exist as a separate entity , although the constitution of the Senate contained provisions designed to ensure that the Bar Council would remain an autonomous body for the purpose of its separate powers and functions . |
| 29 | Local government ceased to be regarded as an indispensable deliverer of services ; it had become part of the intractable problem of the late twentieth-century urban crisis . |
| 30 | The Union had become part of the capitalist system . |