Example sentences of "had [vb pp] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its formal reading of the judgment on March 27 , the Court of Appeal vindicated the three appeal judges , led by Lord Lane , who in 1987 had dismissed the mens ' appeals , saying that the scientific issues were not the same . |
| 2 | He had been landlord of the village inn for a number of years and had developed the publicans ' inborn instinct for recognising potential trouble . |
| 3 | ‘ You have n't exactly had a peaceful birthday ! ’ she 'd reminded Laura , who 'd smiled as she had recalled the twins ' boundless energy , which had left the two adults feeling quite exhausted at the end of the day . |
| 4 | Presently , perhaps tardily , foam engulfed the platforms to douse the clingfire — blinding this particular spy-fly , though by now Jaq had registered the loyalists ' hard-won gain … |
| 5 | What Peter did not realise was that he had aroused the directors ' suspicion . |
| 6 | However , it was reported the following day that talks had broken down and the employers had stopped the strikers ' wages . |
| 7 | Mansell spent some time on stage with his former boss Frank Williams , whose Canon-Williams team had won the Constructors ' Championship . |
| 8 | Equally , the management of British Coal once again have not honoured their undertakings , they promised me that once they had considered the Consultants ' Report into the reorganization , they would consult with us . |
| 9 | In the later case a three-member panel had considered the applicants ' appeal and had adjourned to hear the remaining appeals . |
| 10 | The MNR responded with a statement issued in Nairobi saying that it had accepted the mediators ' invitation to direct talks but that Chissano was delaying " to extend his time in power " . |
| 11 | At an earlier stage the council had accepted the architects ' proposal to replace the chainlink fencing around the adjacent churchyard with cast-iron railings of period appearance . |
| 12 | He agreed the team had infringed the defendants ' rights when they wrote a book on the case . |
| 13 | The 15-12 quarter-final passage was attributed to a Jim Renwick drop goal after tries by Douglas Wyllie and Jim Hay — the latter 's converted by Simon Scott — had ensured the Survivors ' fightback from 0-12 adrift . |
| 14 | They had attended the agents ' dinner at Blackpool , and Sarah , sitting way below the salt , had noticed with alarm that Heath was silent . |
| 15 | It seemed several days since he had seen the girls ' bodies in their mockery of repose at the embalmer 's shed that morning . |
| 16 | ‘ Fake ’ Intermediates were students who had done the Beginners ' course but learned nothing from it . |
| 17 | W. C. Anderson — who had moved the Workers ' and Soldiers ' Council resolution at Leeds the previous June — pressed the point , warning : |
| 18 | A father risked his life to save his twin babies from a fire which had engulfed the childrens ' bedroom . |
| 19 | Each of the three most recent treaties between the Russian and Ottoman Empires ( Kuchuk Kainardji in 1774 , Jassy in 1791 , Bucharest in 1812 ) had shifted the tsars ' frontier to a new river on the north-western edge of the Black Sea ( the Bug , the Dniester and the Pruth ) . |
| 20 | On a turgid turner that had thwarted the seamers ' efforts until the 199th over of the match , Essex required a further 29 to avoid the follow-on on the final morning with four wickets intact , only to be denied by a spell of 3 for 1 in 14 deliveries that ultimately allowed Nick Cook to give the hosts ( and Britannic Assurance Championship leaders ) a right old grilling in the second dig ; but for Ambrose he might never have had the chance . |
| 21 | Undefined neurological diseases , which in retrospect might have been Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease , had affected the patients ' fathers , who had died at age 68 and 71 respectively . |
| 22 | The students had called the authorities ' bluff with their protests and shown solidarity across the country . |
| 23 | The 54-member Territorial Congress , an aggregate of the three regional assemblies , had become the islands ' autonomous legislative body following the ending of French direct rule on July 14 , 1989 , under the terms of the 1988 Matignon Accord [ see pp. 36348-49 ; for elections to the regional assemblies in June 1989 see p. 367 ] . |
| 24 | When the congress opened on Feb. 19 Harilaos Florakis , appointed president of the central committee on his resignation as general secretary in July 1989 and the party 's leader since 1973 , had raised the reformists ' hopes with his unexpected announcement that he now wanted " to be a simple foot-soldier in the party " . |
| 25 | There were those like Hugh Price Hughes who joined in the reaction against individualism because they felt it had narrowed the churches ' work among working people : |
| 26 | With Sanjurjo dead , General Mola was the Carlists ' immediate interlocutor , for it was with him that the Carlist leadership had negotiated the Traditionalists ' active support for the rising . |
| 27 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of April 2 the establishment of Poll Watch had driven the parties ' extensive vote-buying network underground and sometimes out of business . |
| 28 | The commission had found the islands ' council 's management of the Caithness-South Ronaldsay short-sea ferry project to be deficient and its decision-making inadequate . |
| 29 | He had overcome the islanders ' deep dislike of the sea by night , when shadows welled in the phosphorescence and the pale monster Manjiku reared his snout from the waves . |
| 30 | Although an official inquiry had found in October 1988 that there were no grounds to conclude that the DTI 's handling of the affair had caused the investors ' losses , in his report the Ombudsman had identified five areas in which there had been significant maladministration by the DTI of the Barlow Clowes affair . |