Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price had soared to 250p before crashing last year . |
| 2 | In the Romalpa case , not only was the seller entitled , as owner , to the unmixed goods which the buyer had not sold , but the seller was also entitled to the proceeds of the sale which the buyer had received from sub-sales of unmixed goods . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 4 | Iraq 's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait caused a dramatic increase in oil prices ; the " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had fallen to $16.60 per barrel on June 5 , rose to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 and passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 . |
| 5 | Whilst numbers of full-time farmers had fallen by 28% in the past ten years there had only been an 8% reduction in the number of part-time farmers . |
| 6 | Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory . |
| 7 | Pentos shares had dropped to 61p on the Monday before Christmas , having slipped 5.5p to 65.5p the previous week . |
| 8 | John Matthews , chairman of the CIA energy committee , said that a recent CIA investment survey had shown that although investment had dropped from £2000m in 1991 to £1600m–£1800m in 1992 , the amount invested in health , safety and the environment had gone up considerably and the amount invested in energy efficiency had remained level . |
| 9 | For example , in 1936–37 the costs of providing courses in rural Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire had amounted to £330 in excess of grant earned under the Board of Education Regulations . |
| 10 | She said that the complaints had come from people on the same estate who were ‘ really quite close ’ to the former rectory . |
| 11 | In August 1920 , the cost of a house which stood at £250 in 1914 , had risen to £930 on average . |
| 12 | This had risen to 63% of the sample at the age of one year . |
| 13 | By March this year output had risen to 82% of this level . |
| 14 | However , when the successful contenders were revealed in July 1989 the figure had risen to £600m as a result of inflation and more stringent safety requirements . |
| 15 | Income during the year had risen by 8% in real terms to £52.4m , and sales of souvenirs and gifts , which fell by 1% , were the only casualty of the economic climate so far . |
| 16 | Non-performing loans had risen by 75% to $770m . |
| 17 | Eurotunnel , the Anglo-French consortium that will operate the twin-rail tunnel when it is scheduled to enter service in June 1993 , shocked the City by announcing that costs had risen by £2.2bn from an original estimate of £4.8bn , with the 50-kilometre tunnel still only one-quarter built . |
| 18 | Indictable offences known to the police had risen by 69% since 1938 , reaching a total of 478,394 compared with 283,220 in 1938 . |
| 19 | ‘ Non-fuel ’ running costs , for example , had risen from $25 per kilowatt of capacity in 1974 to $94 in 1984 , making nuclear plants about as expensive to run as coal . |
| 20 | He was commenting on the latest income support statistics , which showed that average weekly benefit payments had risen from £38.52 to £51.89 between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 21 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 22 | The cost of thefts from schools had risen from £60,000 to about £70,000 over the same period , representing a drop in real terms because of inflation . |
| 23 | A supply of seat belts which the owner of Transom Trading had bought for £600 in September from a market trader in good faith and which were subsequently found to be defective . |
| 24 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 25 | SCOTVEC 's Validation Committee , with the help of the report of the validation teams , had approved on 30% of these modules . |
| 26 | In a free-spending secret life , Brian Courtenay , former businessman , local councillor , Tory committee chairman and master of his masonic lodge , had got through £200,000 to £300,000 — leaving the woman who wed him as a virgin 38 years earlier , almost penniless and deep in debt . |
| 27 | With cautiously gloved hands , Ace flicked through papers from a locked cabinet , which she had opened by means of a knife she usually concealed in her boot . |
| 28 | Liverpool Crown Court judge David Lynch , sentencing Gavin , said that he had used the fund 's bank account as his own and had stolen between £3,500 to £4,200 . |
| 29 | Mr Haynes explained that the earlier surge in borrowings , which had peaked at £5.2m in December 1990 , had arisen because the company had been publishing too many books on the general publishing side ( as opposed to the car and motor cycle manuals which are Haynes ' core activity ) . |
| 30 | The company 's co-brokers , Hoare Govett , had hoped for £12m before tax ; in the event the figure was £9.54m , still 89 per cent up on the corresponding period 's £5.04m . |