Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [num] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Financial Times of Sept. 22 reported that pro-Chinese associations had won 12 of the 16 elective seats . |
| 8 | The UDHK had won 12 of the 18 directly elected seats in the September 1991 elections to the Legislative Council [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In Robin Hood 's day , Sherwood Forest had occupied one-fifth of the whole area of Nottinghamshire . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 16 | Cardiff looked back to see that the other man had opened one of the metallic cases and taken out what seemed to be earphones , which he was now wearing . |
| 17 | At the end of six months they had sold 300 of the 400 beds for £150 each . |
| 18 | As we saw earlier ( Ch.7 ) , wool taxation to raise war funds had provided a protective tariff for the textile industry , and the war had damaged one of the main Continental cloth-manufacturing centres in Flanders . |
| 19 | By the late 1230s he had become one of a small group of professional lawyers practising in the Common Bench in Westminster . |
| 20 | From being the palest child in her school , Martha found that she had become one of the darkest . |
| 21 | By this time it had become one of the principal Manchester manufacturers of engines and boilers , with a considerable export trade to Russia and India ; up to 1866 it had built over 1,800 boilers and about 200 engines since starting in business in 1835 . |
| 22 | By the middle of the thirteenth-century Milan 's ruling commune had lost its power , and the city had become one of the first to fall to the signori , the city lords . |
| 23 | By the early 1950s , the Essex Federation had become one of the strongest in the District , in terms of the enthusiasm and sense of purpose of its Executive Committee , composed of members elected from constituent branches at the annual general meetings . |
| 24 | By 1951 he had become one of the strongest champions of the special relationship in the cabinet — despite continuing differences on many economic issues . |
| 25 | Although he was still sufficiently trusted to be appointed as one of the young Edward 's guardians when the prince was sent abroad to do homage for his father 's French lands in September 1325 , a year later he had become one of the leading backers of Queen Isabella in her invasion of England . |
| 26 | Soon it had become one of the main topics of conversation . |
| 27 | By the fifteenth-century , the ducal patronage that supported the Renaissance had provided one of the finest artistic climates ever to have occurred in world history . |
| 28 | They had found three of the four sacks of potatoes stolen in the gipsies ' camp on Rickling Heath , and one bag of oats , but no trace of the pony . |
| 29 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 30 | In 1820 the firm won a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of Arts for its introduction of a feldspathic glaze to replace the lead glaze which had caused one of the occupational hazards of workers in the china industry , the disease they called ‘ potter 's rot ’ . |