Example sentences of "[noun pl] had in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resolution attracted strong criticism from party chairman Shimon Peres and from Rabin ; the small religious parties had in the past been crucial components of Labour-controlled coalition administrations . |
| 2 | The defendants had in the course of their employment visited Paris to assess the feasibility of opening Bureaux de Change in France . |
| 3 | In 1963 , many producers were having as much difficulty securing screenings for their films as their predecessors had in the early 1920s . |
| 4 | Instead , he promoted a ‘ Disraelian sense of the obligation of local businessmen to exercise leadership in the big cities as their predecessors had in the Victorian heyday ’ ( Parkinson and Duffy , 1984 , p. 81 ) . |
| 5 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 6 | Now this , I think , GPs had in the old days , they had much more exciting lives … . |
| 7 | I will never forget hearing the Leningrad Philharmonic for the first time , the incredible discipline those players had in the combination of strings and brass — it 's impossible to forget it because it 's impossible to repeat it . |
| 8 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 9 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 10 | The illusion that I had and perhaps many others had in the early seventies was that somehow we could reach a blissful state where all tensions and anxieties would not be there and we would be sexually , as well as emotionally , free . |
| 11 | The style of " internal " Frankish politics had involved many confrontations , many feints and pursuits , many rituals of rebellion , but all previous potential conflicts between rival Carolingians had in the end been resolved by talk and compromise , and rituals of conciliation like shared acts of worship . |
| 12 | The Rural Institute for women had in the past joined with the colleges and local Councils in providing short training courses but as yet there was little co-ordinated training for the wives . |
| 13 | PEAS capital gains tax savings were of value only to those whose capital gains had in the given year exceeded the free allowance — not a predicament in which the average punter found himself . |
| 14 | The long red tresses which in Astraea had flowed deranged on her shoulders whilst her paper skirts were slit by Seymour 's scissors had in the hot sun of Provence slowly crimped , frizzled , and broken off lustreless . |