Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We managed to salvage the Spotlight feature but my bloody notes had already been printed . |
| 2 | Doubtless at the time of the wool barons the church had a full congregation , but the economic tide had long ago receded from this part of the world . |
| 3 | Trained in watercolours by his father , the precocious Bonington had already exhibited at the Liverpool Academy before his family left England . |
| 4 | These technical , professional discussions had already shaped the direction of change before the Act was drafted , in and out of war . |
| 5 | The smile on her sweet mouth quickly faded though the moment the door was opened and she at once took in the unusual pallor of Cara 's skin and the fact that , if she was n't mistaken , her dear sister had recently been crying . |
| 6 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 7 | The delays were caused mainly by patients waiting for long term care ( because private provision had n't kept up with demand ) . |
| 8 | Young people were normally allowed many opportunities to meet members of the opposite sex , and though examples can be quoted of disinheritance because parental wishes had not been met , the prime consideration in choosing a wedding partner was undoubtedly mutual love . |
| 9 | In contrast , the DIA 's covert activities had never been compromised and it had never become embroiled in public controversy . |
| 10 | They all knew that The Hooded Owl had just survived a great crisis . |
| 11 | By the late 1950s European states had not only recovered from the war , but had achieved remarkable economic growth . |
| 12 | Although the Liberals improved their position in the 1929 General Election , winning 59 seats compared to the 40 in 1924 , their new-found unity and imaginative economic policies had not worked . |
| 13 | Even before Curtis 's barked order of ‘ Get this fuckin' heap movin' ! ’ the alert driver had already flipped the car into gear and begun to swing into the traffic stream . |
| 14 | In the West Riding woollen manufacture the independent working clothiers had long used the spring shuttle , and as a group who produced much of the food needs of their households were well enough protected from the high food prices of the war years . |
| 15 | His usual enthusiasm had definitely disappeared ; more often than not he was unconscious anyway . |
| 16 | The ANC had maintained its opposition to a resumption of negotiations with the government , protesting that its April 30 deadline for the release of all remaining political prisoners had not been met [ see pp. 38131 ; 38179 ] . |
| 17 | The announcement of the pardons also revealed that 191 political prisoners had already been pardoned by decrees on June 12 and July 31 , 1990 [ for February 1990 estimates of prison population see p. 37746 ] . |
| 18 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 19 | The Spanish authorities had earlier requested the extradition of Arróspide to face charges in connection with the bombing of a shopping centre in Barcelona in 1987 [ see pp. 35851 ; 37588 ] . |
| 20 | But in the other field , the two hundred pregnant sheep had completely disappeared . |
| 21 | Firstly he overlooked the fact that the European parliament had consistently voted for Brussels as a meeting place . |
| 22 | Many women who moved into occasional prostitution through economic necessity had probably already had previous sexual experience , and for many the distinction between occasional sex with a young wooer and clandestine prostitution may have remained fluid . |
| 23 | With the bishops also back in the House of Lords , the political tide had now turned very markedly against the Puritans . |
| 24 | There was nothing wrong with the boat 's lines , which were sleekly functional , but her long powerful hull , her upperworks , and even the interior of her capacious working deck had all been painted with a wartime dazzle paint . |
| 25 | Spegelj had gone into hiding after the military authorities ordered his arrest at the end of January , and the Croatian authorities had repeatedly refused to co-operate with the JNA in detaining him . |
| 26 | Britain also refused to sign a Social Charter in 1989 which guaranteed certain minimum social rights to EC peoples , and it had to be said , thirty years after the Rome treaties , that European unity had not really fulfilled the high hopes of Schuman , de Gasperi or Adenauer . |
| 27 | Many residents with frontages onto unmade roads had already contributed 50 percent of the cost of the work . |
| 28 | For instance , if the working class parties of pre-fascist Germany had really represented the class itself , the latter would have been more easily aroused than it in fact was , and the rise of fascism would at least have been a greater struggle . |
| 29 | Because normal subjects had virtually identical values of active and total caeruloplasmin , we estimate that Wilson 's disease is caused by loss of oxidase activity rather than abnormal synthesis of caeruloplasmin . |
| 30 | The first limited-overs international , between Australia and England , had taken place only two years earlier , and the Prudential Trophy had then been introduced with great success in 1972 . |