Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 She knew perfectly well he 'd been trying to hide the fact that he 'd come alive as the streets had filled with people .
2 The auditors find fault with every stage of the ministry 's work and call for a review of site research for road improvements after the cost of improving the A6 at Chapel-en-le-Frith , Derbyshire , had jumped from £17 million to £36 million when an embankment and retaining wall collapsed .
3 Looking on the bright side , Mayor Edgar Nunez said tourism had jumped by 60pc .
4 The price had soared to 250p before crashing last year .
5 Last April , The Scotsman revealed Treasury figures which estimated that the cost of the jetty , originally budgeted at £119 million , had soared by £155 million , to £274 million , and that the project was a year late .
6 The centrepiece of the McCarty-Cooper sale , the estimates had fluctuated between $10 million and $5.5 million since Christie 's announced the sale back in September .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 In 1974-75 , the last Labour Government spent £1,425 million in real terms at 1991-92 prices ; by 1978-79 , that had fallen to £918 million .
10 Customs revenue stood at c. £40,000 per annum in 1509 ; in the last years of Henry VIII 's reign it was still at that figure ; by 1550/51 it had fallen to £26,000 .
11 In 1986 this had fallen to 9% .
12 The orientation and position of the model was refined as a rigid body in X-plor ; after this procedure the R -factor had fallen to 30% .
13 Ronson told bankers that the March 31 accounts would show net assets had fallen to £135 million compared with £585 million previously .
14 By Oct. 24 it had fallen to $29.10 , only to turn upwards again ( following the apparent failure of the Soviet initiative ) and reach $34.95 as of Nov.1 .
15 Over the first period of study ( 1978–83 ) , hospital mortality was 9% , while over the second period ( 1984–8 ) it had fallen to 4% ( Fisher 's exact test : p=0.4 ) .
16 The duties had fallen to 5% .
17 By September 1943 ( when Italy surrendered ) the proportion of people who felt mass unemployment was inevitable had fallen to 19% .
18 Guy Routh calculated that in 1931 34% of higher professionals were self-employed or employers ; by 1971 this had fallen to 16% .
19 Profits of £30 million in 1990 had fallen to £20 million last year .
20 In 1986 these had stood at £99.4 billion ; by the beginning of 1992 they had fallen to £16 billion .
21 By 1989 its share had fallen to 13% , reflecting the diminishing importance of the manufacturing sector to the UK economy .
22 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 .
23 NEWS that inflation had fallen to 3% , its lowest level for six years , injected some much-needed confidence into a wobbly stockmarket .
24 In what was presented as action to protect its foreign exchange reserves ( which had fallen to $5,600 million according to government sources ) the government on July 5 , 1989 , informed the " Paris Club " group of creditors that it was temporarily deferring payment of $812,000,000 in interest which had been due on June 30 and July 3 .
25 The 30% rate stayed the same until 1987 for companies and until 1988 for individuals and trustees although , in the meantime , the basic rate of income tax had fallen to 25% .
26 By 1986 this proportion had fallen to 54% .
27 In 1571 the average had fallen to £487 , only nine out of fifty-eight were rated above £1,000 , and the highest was £2,133 .
28 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 .
29 The company , which has its UK headquarters in Harwich , revealed its net profit figure for 1992 had fallen by £3.5 million to £8.5m .
30 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 .
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