Example sentences of "[det] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , one week later , this had fallen to 49 per cent in favour ( see Irish Times , 5 May 1986 and Sunday Press , 11 May 1986 ) . |
| 2 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 3 | This had them all looking at each other . |
| 4 | Detective Inspector Milsom said with deep feeling that this had not helped in the investigation so far . |
| 5 | Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack . |
| 6 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 7 | As Smith ( ibid. ) indicates , the cost of one scholarship ( when he was writing in 1978 ) was about £30,000 and by the late 1980s this had risen to well over £100,000 . |
| 8 | I just knew this had to be coming . |
| 9 | I would have rung if this had n't happened . |
| 10 | All this had a dramatic effect on station catering 's turnover , up from £33.1 million in 1978 to £62.8million seven years later . |
| 11 | This had not happened on such a scale before and encouraged MacMillan to stage another biographical work , Isadora , which followed the pattern of his earlier Anastasia . |
| 12 | By 1988 this had dropped to about 15 per cent of spruce , and other species such as pine and fir showed similar improvements . |
| 13 | By the Seventies this had been cut down , thanks to the pressure cooker , hotter ovens and the first electric gadgets , to an hour . |
| 14 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 15 | Loyalists said this had reduced the flow of photographs to them . |
| 16 | This had survived the worst the Luftwaffe could do , but was no match for ‘ comprehensive redevelopment ’ . |
| 17 | Michael Jordan of Cork Gully and Timothy Beer of Peat Marwick McLintock said they had recovered £13.2m of the missing deposits but £5.5m of this had already gone to liquidation costs and legal fees . |
| 18 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 19 | This had been the routine during the landing at La Breche and the advance to the Orne bridges . |
| 20 | This had a crippling effect on the worse off at a crucial stage of recovery from the Famine . |
| 21 | This had been accomplished in the main by 1921 , thanks to the combined application of brute force in the Civil War and the persuasive methods of the press and other media . |
| 22 | Military victory in the Falklands gave Britain a new stature for a time , but by 1987 the impact of this had disappeared . |
| 23 | In the case of Sgt Soles , the Department said that Mrs Marsden 's inquiry had resulted in the discovery that his widow , who had remarried by was now very ill , was entitled to have her widow 's pension reinstated under new legislation and this had now been done . |
| 24 | This had a record of superb parish priests and a full congregation . |
| 25 | This had become operational in 1978 , although full earnings-related pensions were not due to come into effect until 1998 . |
| 26 | But it could not have happened to anyone else , she was almost forgetting that this had not been exactly a freak accident in the way that everyone thought . |
| 27 | Mona was quiet , hardworking and extremely stubborn , anxious to be agreeable ; but once she took up a position — or got caught in one — she was obstinately immovable and this had often brought her into conflict with Moran . |
| 28 | But all this had been wasted by some heavy handed crimping . |
| 29 | After this had been analysed , they then , and only then , went on to consider how this basic process was linked with ideas and values , such as justice and law , and with institutions , such as property and the State . |
| 30 | Once this had been established , the aim of Marx 's work was to break through this veil of ideology . |