Example sentences of "this [noun sg] had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cinema had also capitalised on the psycho-acoustic phenomenon prevalent in rock music of suggesting heightened intensity with ‘ fuzz ’ : the speaker cone had plainly blown , rendering all dialogue and music as if through comb and paper . |
| 2 | Since most of the prostatic cancers detected in this study had not metastasised to bone and were well or moderately well differentiated these patients might have suffered if detection had been delayed . |
| 3 | Over 30% in this study had never heard of the ATB . |
| 4 | In 1801 students enrolled in schools of all kinds numbered no more than one in a thousand , and by Nicholas 's death this figure had only risen to six . |
| 5 | The rival claimant , an Andreas Ruckers of 1651 , was produced by the piano house of John Broadwood and Sons , who deposed that this instrument had once belonged to Christopher Smith and thus might have been Handel 's . |
| 6 | Unlike many of my black informants , this boy had actually lived in the Caribbean for five years : between the ages of three and six in his mother 's country , Jamaica , and later , when he was of school age , for two years in St Vincent . |
| 7 | This process had already begun with a mass mobilization in a literacy campaign which brought the illiteracy rate down from 50.2 per cent to 12.9 per cent by 1981 ( see page 245 ) . |
| 8 | This post had often served as a launching-pad for a future general-secretary as the careers of both Erich Honecker and Egon Krenz in East Germany show . |
| 9 | This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years . |
| 10 | This evening had n't gone to plan . |
| 11 | This point had already occurred to Loretta , who was doing some rapid calculations . |
| 12 | This conclusion had not occurred to Derek , but it was true nonetheless . |
| 13 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 14 | This effort had obviously failed by early April and the attention of both Labour and Likud switched to the five-member " Liberal " faction which had defected from Likud in late February [ see p. 37303 ] . |
| 15 | This certainty had somehow emerged from her indecision . |
| 16 | She felt sickened and saddened beyond words and , for the first time , she wished that this thing had not happened to her . |
| 17 | This idea had never occurred to us . |
| 18 | But that surely is a very interesting thought about this , and until the , er , Bishop of Bradford preached his famous sermon and all the thing blew up , people in this country had never heard of er , Mrs Simpson . |
| 19 | The mother by this time had not acted upon the terms of the ‘ settlement , ’ as it had been termed , by which she had undertaken to commence divorce proceedings . |
| 20 | Since all the parties to this dispute had already agreed to Article 14 of the Montreal Convention , the Security Council had no lawful authority to adopt any resolution that failed to call for the arbitration of this dispute . |