Example sentences of "had [vb pp] in [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 2 | Fry noted that night visits had trebled in the seven years from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 3 | Kissinger even hoped to make 1973 the ‘ Year of Europe ’ in which the Atlantic alliance could be restored to full health , ending the distrust between America and Europe which had developed in the 1960s . |
| 4 | Stenhouse 's proposal was in marked contrast , not only to Hoyle 's , but , for different reasons , to the tradition of curriculum development that had developed in the 1960s , both in the UK and the USA . |
| 5 | Sheila Cunningham , of Norfolk North , said the present system was unfair and perpetuated the elective dictatorship which had developed in the 1980s . |
| 6 | Members of the National Front , the opposition the Shah had crushed in the fifties and ignored ever since , leftists , rightists , monarchists , republicans , dentists , doctors , lawyers — almost anyone it seems could finally get into see His Imperial Majesty . |
| 7 | A few weeks before he left Iran , the Shah had asked one of the most respected members of the opposition that he had crushed in the fifties to try to form a government . |
| 8 | Sex equality slipped far down the political agenda and women had to fight hard to retain the rights they had won in the 1960s and 1970s on abortion , welfare benefits , maternity and employment rights . |
| 9 | As we reported in The Art Newspaper for December 1991 ( No.13 , pp.6–7 ) the boom in museum building that Germany had enjoyed in the Eighties is drawing to a close under the financial pressure of reunification . |
| 10 | My plaster of paris plaque of Robes-pierre had smashed in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake , thrown from the wall of my sitting room in the Adobe motel . |
| 11 | The greatest period of administrative reform in the history of the Habsburg territories had come in the two decades after 1749 ( see pp. 153–4 ) ; here Joseph achieved much less than his mother . |
| 12 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 13 | He retired to the striking hill-top house ( in Monkton Deverill , Wiltshire ) he had designed in the 1930s , its style reminiscent of seventeenth-century France . |
| 14 | Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately . |
| 15 | Both the Board of Education and Ministry of Health were acutely sensitive on this issue , given the controversy that had raged in the 1930s over the issue of child malnutrition and ill health . |
| 16 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 17 | The PPP called for an independent inquiry to clear the damage to its reputation caused by assertions that the hijackers were members of Al Zulfiqar , an armed resistance group with PPP connections which had operated in the 1980s and was involved in a hijacking in 1981 [ see pp. 31071-72 ] . |
| 18 | A special commission of the Bulgarian government uncovered the existence of concentration camps which had operated in the 1950s and 1960s in which some prisoners were tortured and killed . |
| 19 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she … well … vanished , and so far had come up with nothing . |
| 20 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |
| 21 | However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s . |
| 22 | By the early 1980s ‘ PLO nationalism ’ was declining in credibility as Arab nationalism had done in the 1970s . |
| 23 | Spreading themselves out , they began to hitchhike , just as English students had done in the sixties . |
| 24 | The pressure of higher salaries , labour shortages and office rents was by 1989 causing more government departments to think of moving sections of work to the North , as some had done in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 25 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | He urged the unemployed of the north to ‘ get on your bike ’ and look for work , as his window-cleaner father had done in the thirties . |
| 27 | There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best . |
| 28 | As they had done in the 1930s , Soviet organisations approached state-owned Latin American oil companies . |
| 29 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 30 | He realized the boy had grown in the two months since he had last seen him and looked at him carefully , noticing the way his wrists poked out of the shirt and the slight roughness of the clear skin . |