Example sentences of "had [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too much emphasis had been placed upon the strengthening of security by military rather than political means , and this had placed an undue burden on the domestic economy . |
| 2 | In September these two groups had formed an anti-negotiation alliance alongside Hamas and seven other smaller non-PLO groups . |
| 3 | It had already formed local pacts with the SzDSz in five counties , but on March 30 Antall announced that the HDF had formed an electoral pact with the Smallholders and the Christian Democratic People 's Party whereby the three parties would support the best placed candidate in each constituency . |
| 4 | Talks sponsored by Djibouti President Hassan Gouled Aptidon brought together in Djibouti on June 5-15 the leaders of four Somali groups — the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which had formed an interim administration in Mogadishu in January [ see pp. 37946-47 ] ; the Somali Salvation Democratic Front ( SSDF ) ; the Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ) : and the Somali Democratic Movement ( SDM ) . |
| 5 | Associated Press of Pakistan claimed on Aug. 26 that Pakistani troops had repulsed an Indian attack on a post in Mirzapur , and that the Indians had " lost 20 lives including their two officers " while the Pakistanis " suffered two casualties " . |
| 6 | The developers and their henchmen , the Council , had tricked an old lady into parting with her cottage and twelve acres of ‘ agricultural ’ land at a knockdown price . |
| 7 | Gardener John Tobin , of Speke , who had to wait an extra day for his £160-weekly wage , said : ‘ It 's a disgrace . ’ |
| 8 | The party broke up when Father D'Arcy , whose life was organized round the liturgy , rose saying that he had to attend an obligatory office at Campion Hall . |
| 9 | As days turned into weeks , Ned 's owner began thinking that his dog had developed an unhealthy obsession with his lump of rock . |
| 10 | Under the violinists Johann Stamitz and Christian Cannabich , the orchestra had developed an unparalleled reputation for discipline and virtuosity — an ‘ army of generals ’ , as the English historian Dr Burney described it . |
| 11 | In addition , the steering had developed an ominous creak at parking speeds and the rear silencer on the exhaust had again come adrift . |
| 12 | And over the past few days it had developed an infuriating habit of wandering unerringly back to the subject of Adam Burns . |
| 13 | I had developed an extreme closeness with two of the doctors , and I called them , and they both agreed to go in and evaluate Ron 's condition and get back to me , and I said I would abide by their decision . |
| 14 | French publishers found a lively market for the polyphonic chanson and its instrumental arrangements ; composers based Masses on it , even in its most scabrous forms ; and even before the foundation in 1570 of the Académie de Poésie et de Musique on the initiative of Jean-Antoine de Baif , French composers had developed an extreme form of Humanist song in musique mesurée a l'antique . |
| 15 | She had developed an implacable hatred for Adolph 's doctor . |
| 16 | The first hint of such an ability in bees came years ago when von Frisch discovered that bees that had flown an indirect route to a food source were nevertheless able to indicate by their famous communication dances the straight line direction to the food . |
| 17 | People would believe that it was unnecessary to dispute the matter and that they had received an additional benefit for the injury that had been forced upon them . |
| 18 | Since the SSL had received an increasing number of enquiries about standards , and as BSI now places restrictions on the type of standards it is willing to lend , the SSL now has complete sets of the Standards of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers ( IEEE ) and the American Society for Testing of Materials ( ASTM ) , and Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique ( CCITT ) blue books . |
| 19 | British Coal , however , had received an alternative offer from a local Nottinghamshire businessman , Mr C. G. Whitaker , who was proposing a mixture of uses for the house — as a hotel and flats — while retaining the staterooms for public viewing and small-scale corporate meetings . |
| 20 | Moreover , de Craon had received an urgent message from his master . |
| 21 | The former communist party , now the Socialist Democracy of the Republic of Poland ( SDRP ) confirmed on Nov. 7 that it had received an interest-free loan worth more than US$1,200,000 in January 1990 from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) . |
| 22 | In Wakeman v Farrar [ 1974 ] Crim LR 136 ( DC ) , the accused received a warning that he must return a lost cheque after he had received an over-the-counter payment from the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 23 | On the other hand , many heterosexual Christians had become less ignorant about the issues around sexuality , and lesbians and gays in the church had received an unprecedented show of solidarity . |
| 24 | She had talked about thresholds and he had given an authoritative paper on ‘ The Potent Castrato : the phallogocentric structuration of Balzac 's hermaphrodite hero/ines ’ . |
| 25 | The Romans had put an end to the social struggles in the Greek cities and had given an implicit guarantee of survival for the wealthy . |
| 26 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 27 | At the end of the discussion Pat Keegan , a lay auditor , was invited to speak , the first occasion in modern times that a layman had addressed an ordinary session of an Ecumenical Council . |
| 28 | He had written to tell them about Amy since his parents constantly threatened to visit and ‘ unlikely as this was actually to happen , the prospect had added an intolerable anxiety to his already anxiety-ridden life . |
| 29 | Voters went to the polls on Jan. 20 for run-off elections for those National Assembly seats where no candidate had won an overall majority on the first ballot ( held in conjunction with the presidential elections on Dec. 16 ) . |
| 30 | Delegates voted on the nominations in a secret ballot on the morning of July 13 , as a result of which it was announced that every candidate had won an absolute majority of votes . |