Example sentences of "[adj] had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No deals for hostages I could understand , yet the French had made future business and full diplomatic relations conditional on their hostages being freed and no more being taken . |
| 2 | Japan 's Constitution , drawn up under United States auspices after the Second World War , had limited the country 's military activities to self-defence , in recognition of the Japanese aggression in the region during the 1930s and 1940s , and the possibility of changing this had caused considerable consternation among various South and East Asian countries . |
| 3 | Though the whole line from London to Langley Mill never finally came under one ownership , by 1897 this had become possible by the negotiation of options to purchase the remaining sections north of Leicester . |
| 4 | This had become operational in 1978 , although full earnings-related pensions were not due to come into effect until 1998 . |
| 5 | To coincide with the launch of the Constitution , the government lifted the state of siege , imposed in 1984 in response to the violent activity of drug traffickers , right-wing paramilitary groups and left-wing guerrillas ; this had curtailed civil liberties and had given extraordinary power to the President to re-establish public order . |
| 6 | This had aroused international interest from such countries as Argentina , Zimbabwe and Australia . |
| 7 | This had aroused considerable interest . |
| 8 | This had asserted American interest in the Middle East and had given pledges of support to those states which felt threatened by communism . |
| 9 | None of this had escaped French notice , and some of the heaviest mortars they could muster had been brought up ; resulting in the burying alive of many of the Bavarians underneath their Stollen . |
| 10 | This had provoked Democratic infighting in the Senate . |
| 11 | This had to sound right . |
| 12 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 13 | At the time this had seemed appropriate , but now she was regretting the formal atmosphere . |
| 14 | A couple of years ago this had looked impossible . |
| 15 | This had occurred due to these latter two persons deciding to marry one another and leave the profession . |
| 16 | Oh ye er this had got educational video on the thing |
| 17 | This had forced general managers of the second wave into the reactive mould characteristic of their predecessors in the first wave . |
| 18 | This had found partial expression as early as 1589 when the government had persuaded Constantinople to raise the Metropolitan of Moscow to patriarchal status in order to strengthen Orthodoxy 's defences . |
| 19 | The Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 had prescribed regular provincial assemblies for the clergy . |
| 20 | As far as their training and qualifications were concerned , one-third had no qualifications at all and less than half had obtained basic school qualifications . |
| 21 | In the case-studies of 15 boards it was clear that half had made significant progress . |
| 22 | The word was out , for until then the British had kept secret their special raiding forces . |
| 23 | For too long the British had sought incompatible economic objectives : full employment , price stability , economic growth , long-term foreign investment , and the preservation of sterling as a reserve currency . |
| 24 | Everything that could go wrong had gone wrong . |
| 25 | All Girls under twenty-one had to get written permission from their parents and although fathers still tended to be against the idea , no one appeared to have committed forgery . |
| 26 | Although a few had had quick and relatively painless births , many had found it a very painful experience . |
| 27 | A large English naval campaign in 1372 had proved abortive , an expedition to relieve Brest in 1373 ineffective , a progress led by Gaunt from Calais to Bordeaux that same year a ‘ grandiose failure ’ , and a costly expedition to Brittany in 1375 too late to achieve its aim of influencing peace negotiations at Bruges . |
| 28 | But , some had become sociable and talkative , probably because their parents had helped them . |
| 29 | These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members . |
| 30 | Of the 14 surviving patients in this report , all had required support with intravenous infusions of cardiac drugs before transplantation , and , in addition , some had developed secondary renal and hepatic dysfunction ; clearly this does not seem to mitigate against a successful outcome to transplantation . |