Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guy Routh calculated that in 1931 34% of higher professionals were self-employed or employers ; by 1971 this had fallen to 16% . |
| 2 | For example , the British Marxists Westergaard and Resler estimated that in 1913–14 male clerks earned 122% of the average manual wage , but by 1971 this had fallen to just 96% . |
| 3 | By 1891 this had risen to 8430 and in 1901 to 10 092 . |
| 4 | In 1986 this had fallen to 9% . |
| 5 | In 1961 there were 11 crimes recorded per police-officer , but by 1986 this had grown to 32 . |
| 6 | In 1961 recorded fraud cases numbered 39,651 of a total of 806,900 crimes , and by 1986 this had increased by 210 per cent to 122,802 of 3,857,400 by 1986 . |
| 7 | By 1980 this had risen to 330,453 passengers . |
| 8 | This is combined with an enormous rise in education standards — less than 10% of the population of Indonesia could read in 1930 , and by 1980 this had risen to 60% . |
| 9 | In 1980 this had risen to 70 per cent and in 1986 to 75 per cent . |
| 10 | Absolute egalitarianism of nineteen forty six to forty eight had failed due to the limited amount of land available for redistribution . |
| 11 | By 1945 , 63038 of the Gold Coast population were in the armed forces and 30 500 had served in the Burma campaign where two Divisions ( the 81st and 82nd ) came from West Africa . |
| 12 | In 1963 the hundred largest UK enterprises controlled on average only 40 plants each within the UK : by 1972 this had increased to 72 , and it is clear that this period of domestic expansion and takeovers was also the main period of international expansion by TNCs . |
| 13 | In 1940 only 2 per cent of marriages involved a divorced partner ; by 1985 this had risen to 33 per cent . |
| 14 | Mr Blackman hesitated , and by the time he had formed a limited partnership to launch his schismatic fair , the would-be faithful had signed on with CIAE 's crosstown competition , David and Lee Ann Lester 's three-year-old Art Chicago International . |
| 15 | A report in September 1989 by a parliamentary committee asserted that 5,877 people had disappeared in political circumstances in the past nine years and that another 2,346 had died in unexplained circumstances . |
| 16 | In the churchyard in his last parish a family in the English 1870s had tried to name a son Walter Cornelius Brittain and had buried three , aged five , aged two , aged one month , interspersed by variegated dead daughters , a Jennet , a Marian , an Eva . |
| 17 | On Nov. 13 , 1990 , the government announced that 7,000 Romanians whose asylum applications had been turned down and who had neither shelter nor work would be returned to Romania ( while another 3,000 had found work and would be allowed to remain ) . |
| 18 | At least some good had come out of her association with Luke . |
| 19 | Another sixty had gone on clothes and the record player . |
| 20 | The Chernobyl Help organization , chaired by chess master Anatoly Karpov , claimed that around 1,000 of the " liquidators " had died , 70 per cent of them under the age of 40 , and that another 5,000 had contracted illnesses related to the accident . |
| 21 | In the following week over 5,000 were repatriated , and it was also reported that another 1,500 had returned to Albania voluntarily . |
| 22 | Other companies have had similar troubles : Clerical Medical had to rid itself of an agent which was writing unauthorised business ; a Legal & General agent . |
| 23 | By the 1890s neo-Romanesque had arrived from the United States , and its heavy style with round arches appeared at Brantford ( 1895 ) , Kitchener ( 1897 ) , Galt and Brampton . |
| 24 | I do not say this in a malicious way or to score debating points , but I said that the chairman of Scottish Nuclear had argued at the Nuclear Forum that there might be a case , in the strategic interests of the nation , to subsidise nuclear power . |
| 25 | Another 25,000-30,000 had sought refuge in Mali , where the government refused to recognize them as refugees . |
| 26 | Just under one-third of abusers were the natural father , while a further one-third had adopted the role of father , either by law or by common consent . |
| 27 | Some c- had nicked the bit of corrugated plastic off the top of our house when we got home . |
| 28 | In the event this last had to satisfy them , for although they reached Gilsland village unannounced , they found its castle effectively beyond their reach , its gatehouse guarded , its drawbridge up and its portcullis down , Dacre presumably a man of caution . |
| 29 | A third of its men were new recruits who had seen no fighting , almost another third had seen as little as the Colonel , while only the rest , like d'Alembord , had actually faced a French army in open battle . |
| 30 | As honourable members will recall , Sir Thomas was persuaded to this view by in part a conclusion of the treasurer and civil service select committee , that although the existing permissive nature of section forty seven had worked well it seems desirable in his words , to tighten the wording of the act so that there can be no doubt , either from the point of view of the auditor , his client or the regulator , as to the auditor 's duty to report . |