Example sentences of "had [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 2 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 3 | The Yugoslavian authorities announced on Feb. 20 that Army units stationed in the province of Kosovo had for the first time been given specific orders to quell a renewed wave of unrest among ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 4 | However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state . |
| 5 | In its annual report published on Oct. 2 the Fund confirmed that in the 12 months ended April 30 , 1991 , it had for the first time since 1984-85 made more disbursements ( 6,823 million special drawing rights : SDR1=US$1.365 as at Oct. 2 ) than it had received through repurchases or repayments ( SDR5,608 million ) . |
| 6 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 7 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 8 | From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs . |
| 9 | Does he not recall the trouble that Clemens Krauss had with the last act at the at the 1944 dress rehearsal ? |
| 10 | Colonel with a K the this band , they used to , that they had from the tenth replacement depot used to come down and play at the Town Hall , and they they like I said before they were fellas on the way to join Glen the absolute ultimate musicians of America and it was why I 'm still today erm I 've got a big collection of jazz records and have always been interested in the big band sound . |
| 11 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The demands of Cold War politics prompted Aragon to go one step further and fabricate a fictional representation of Nizan 's treachery which had in the first instance itself been fabricated from Nizan " sown fictional productions . |
| 14 | ‘ If we had stuck away some of the chances we had in the first half then we 'd have won it . ’ |
| 15 | Certainly a much better picture than the one we had in the first half of the year . |
| 16 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 17 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 18 | Fear of losing what we never had in the first place . |
| 19 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 20 | The queen 's eldest son by her first husband , Thomas Grey , had in the first reign married the king 's niece Anne Holland , the daughter and heiress of Henry Holland duke of Exeter by Edward 's sister Anne . |
| 21 | The queen 's eldest son by her first husband , Thomas Grey , had in the first reign married the king 's niece Anne Holland , the daughter and heiress of Henry Holland duke of Exeter by Edward 's sister Anne . |
| 22 | But its opposition also had a base in the property-owning , rural peasantry , and middle-classes , who had in the nineteenth century paid a heavy price for their liberation from oppression and whose status became rooted in their property , land , and livestock . |
| 23 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 25 | What both opposed was a vital popular culture , which had in the eighteenth century entered on a vigorous phase . |
| 26 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 27 | " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him . |
| 28 | The first secretary , Miss Coldharbour , Canon Wheeler 's immaculate conception , as Ian called her , had on the first day coolly returned Julia 's first batch of letters with mistakes marked in a soft shorthand pencil which proved difficult to eradicate cleanly with a rubber when the corrections had been made . |
| 29 | ‘ I used mainly my green Ibanez that I had on the last tour , but for a Be-Bop solo on Giant Steps I used an Ibanez George Benson . |
| 30 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |