Example sentences of "troops had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is misleading to regard the Soviet withdrawal from the Porkkala base in 1955–6 as the final stage of a phased withdrawal of Soviet troops from Finland when Soviet troops had at no stage occupied Finnish soil . |
| 2 | To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders . |
| 3 | Some French troops had to be withdrawn from Brittany to pursue and harry Gaunt 's forces , but the diversion of the expedition from its original destination served to embitter relations between Duke John and Gaunt , which were in any case strained after a quarrel between them over the wages due to their troops , and the English garrisons at Brest , Bécherel ( a fortress some twenty miles south of St Malo ) , and Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte were still hard pressed by du Guesclin 's forces . |
| 4 | Troops had to be used on a wide scale in the countryside and peasant disturbances continued through 1906 and into 1907 . |
| 5 | The imposition of royal control and of Protestant doctrines in Ireland began a prolonged and heavy drain upon the royal purse , while in 1549 troops had to be found and paid for putting down risings in East Anglia , the South-West , the Midlands , and the South . |
| 6 | There were already fifty-six deaths , the great majority of them Meskhetians ; some 9,000 Interior Ministry troops had to be despatched to the area , and a curfew was imposed . |
| 7 | Before Tet , Vietnam could be a place where an unpleasant war was being fought , some might even know that 525,000 American troops were stationed in the country , that the United States was convulsed by the issue , but as the NLF penetrated the US embassy in Saigon , and as its troops had to be beaten out , one by one , millions of people , and hundreds of thousands of western radicals were taken by the idea that the emperor might be dangerous , was dangerous , but had no clothes . |
| 8 | Although Aquino insisted that the plan had the support of at least 15 members of the 23-strong Senate , the Senate President and key opponent of a continued US presence , Jovito Salonga , remained suspicious of the plan , characterizing it as vague and ill-defined and insisting that all combat troops had to be withdrawn within one year . |
| 9 | Although regular army numbers had been increased from 10,500 to 11,000 in November [ see p. 38588 ] , these 500 additional troops had in fact returned to England before Christmas ; the Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke conceded on Jan. 9 that " you might take the view with hindsight that a different decision could have been taken " . |
| 10 | The force was regarded as a necessary guarantee to deter incursions by the Iraqi army into the zone of northern Iraq where coalition troops had from April until July been providing protection for Iraqi Kurds [ see pp. 38127-28 ; 38211 ; 38308 ] . |