Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an analysis is compelling if counsel for B had , in what he perceived as the interests of his client , decided not to pursue any grounds beyond the certified question provided that the House would have allowed him to address those grounds had he raised them . |
| 2 | The significance of all this is that Utah had already convinced themselves that test-tube fusion could be an economic bonanza of unimaginable magnitude , and the first shots in the skirmish for priority had already been fired in February with the accusations that Jones had pirated the Utah chemists ' work . |
| 3 | Also rejecting the contention that no case for change had been made , he declared : ‘ Party politics is not on the agenda of reform . |
| 4 | It is likely too that the provision for value had originally been framed in relation to purchase for value , for otherwise there is no good reason why Ulpian should be concerned with fitting other legal relationships into the same pattern as sale . |
| 5 | And without Malcolm , the excuse for conquest had gone . |
| 6 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |
| 7 | A cheque for £400 had been received from the Radcliffe Trustees , Mr Park had collected £389 of the £521 from ratepayers , but on 18 December 1896 , it was reported that a further debit of £21 6s 6d had been received from the Locomotive Department , increasing the total to £2,935 10s 7d , and none of the ratepayers who owed the uncollected £132 were property owners , so there was little or no hope of collecting it ; that was written off . |
| 8 | In thanking Sir Thomas Kennedy for his address , the Chairman of Conference announced that the cheque for £50,000 had been received from the RAF Benevolent Fund . |
| 9 | By the time organisms had become sophisticated enough to have hard parts , evolution had already defined the phyla , and the great natural framework for classification had been almost completely constructed . |
| 10 | The struggle for Cyprus had been eased by British acceptance of the Sovereign Base concept , though the Zurich Agreement between Greece and Turkey , which enabled Britain to grant Cyprus its independence , was not signed until February 1959 . |
| 11 | In negotiations with the Iranians , however , North maintained that his enthusiasm for war had no place . |
| 12 | Sergei Witte , the Tsar 's minister of finance , realised that creating an industrial base for Russia had risks . |
| 13 | The upper level of exposure for workers had reduced to a seventh of its level in the 1930s , for example . |
| 14 | The attempt at honesty about Chernobyl had strict limits , and was neither thorough nor consistent ; but it was a break , never mind an incomplete one , with the Soviet past . |
| 15 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 16 | Opinion poll ratings which had indicated persistently poor support for Labour had most recently shown 63 per cent support for the opposition National Party and only 28 per cent for the government , and widespread dissatisfaction with Palmer 's leadership . |
| 17 | Dostam 's support for Masud had signalled the end of the Najibullah regime , but Hekmatyar accused him of being a communist and a war criminal . |
| 18 | Mr Kinnock said his forecast of a 20-seat majority for Labour had been confirmed ‘ on the doorsteps ’ . |
| 19 | Swindon 's day of destiny was a day of dreams … a day when Wembley was awash with the red and white of Glenn Hoddle 's army of followers … the league play off final had all the spirit … all the fun and fantasy of Cup Final Day … |
| 20 | Now he acknowledged to himself that his admiration for Sarah had caused him to overlook young Martha 's attractions . |
| 21 | In Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 the Court of Appeal decided that when a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence for murder had not been recommended for release by the local review committee or the Parole Board , before his next review he was not entitled to be told the reasons for the board 's decision . |
| 22 | The murder trial jury heard how Carter at the time serving a sentence for robbery had subjected Darren Brook to a ‘ barbaric ’ ordeal , which included forcing him to write a suicide note . |
| 23 | We learned soon that the money for Frank had come from the wife of our new romantic juvenile , Laurence Wheldon , a blonde and willowy man whose good looks far exceeded his acting powers but whose wife 's money was underwriting the company , to say nothing of her husband 's ambitions . |
| 24 | But the decision for closure had in any case already been made by the predecessor AHA . |
| 25 | The principal remaining air link for Baghdad had been Iraqi Airlines flights to Amman , Jordan , and Jordan stated that it would comply with the mandatory resolution ; it remained illegal to open fire on civil aircraft . |
| 26 | ‘ The action is an action for money had and received ; and it is brought upon this ground ; namely , that the money was paid to the defendant without any consideration ; the duty , for which , and in respect of which he received it , not having been imposed by lawful or sufficient authority to warrant the same . |
| 27 | ‘ It is sufficient to say that in Maskell v. Horner Lord Reading C.J. , referring to these authorities , and in particular to the advice given by Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton — where that learned judge said that he had ‘ always understood that when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received ’ — said that ‘ such claims made in this form of action are treated as matters of ordinary practice and beyond discussion . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Now if the defendants were bound to charge the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods a less sum , and they refused to carry them except upon payment of a greater sum , as he was compelled to pay the amount demanded , and could not otherwise have his goods carried , the case falls within the principle of several decided cases , in which it has been held that money which a party has been wrongfully compelled to pay under circumstances in which he was unable to resist the imposition , may be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 29 | The basis of the action for money had and received was that the money was paid to the defendant without any consideration , the duty having been unlawfully imposed . |
| 30 | It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |