Example sentences of "[that] had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chosen organisation was a local authority that had participated in earlier developments , but this time the study examined the problems that had arisen in the Highways and the planning departments following the establishment of a common unit providing both with financial , administrative , personnel and computer support . |
| 2 | The financial mismanagement that had reigned before 1911 was ended with the employment of professional accountants . |
| 3 | She was feeling perfectly relaxed , almost carefree , she reflected , a mood that had unfolded in the course of their journey . |
| 4 | The pavement beside Alen Glen 's was smashed and a Corporation junction box that had stood outside Jackson 's Dog House in Dundas Street lay up a close . |
| 5 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 6 | It took the 45 ton bulldozer just 8 minutes to flatten 4 homes that had stood for 52 years . |
| 7 | If so , what was this creature , that had stood before him naked and singular , but concealed multitudes ? ; this power Chant had said possessed no friends ( it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERS , he 'd written ) and had been done as much harm in these dealings ( again , Chant 's words ) as Estabrook , to whom Chant had offered his contrition and his prayers ? |
| 8 | The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland . |
| 9 | The thread of the sea that had kept with me all day had not been literal . |
| 10 | In the case of the famine of 1921–2 , a sudden alteration in the agricultural setting deeply affected , not just the local peasantry , but all the other provinces of European Russia and the very basis of the economic and political calculations that had led to the introduction of the NEP in the first place . |
| 11 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 12 | But several of his supporters agreed with Mr John Patten , the former Home Affairs Minister , who spoke of the ‘ wicked , old-fashioned racism ’ that had led to the overturning of the 4,896 Tory majority and brought shame to the spa town . |
| 13 | If we did n't know that terrible things like war had happened , or why they had happened , it would be so easy for us as a country to continue with the same policies that had led to these mistakes in the past . |
| 14 | Goleniewski had been in touch with the CIA since 1958 during which time he had passed on to them a considerable amount of information that had led to the arrest of several important spies . |
| 15 | Most heads could identify changes that had led to a more balanced or improved curriculum , either as a result of the purchase of additional facilities or due to a change in curriculum planning . |
| 16 | The terrible bitterness against his parents that had led to his writing a book meant to shock them had faded into indifference ; yet there lingered in him an understandable vindictiveness . |
| 17 | The political and ideological factors that had led to popular support for and involvement in the inter-imperialist war of 1914–18 and the anti-fascist war of 1939–45 could no longer be used to justify the use of means of warfare which , it became clear , not only involved disproportionate suffering but endangered the future of humanity . |
| 18 | With horror in her eyes , the nurse stated that the young girl had tearfully told the physician the events that had led to her tragic situation . |
| 19 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 20 | Bridges that had led to nothing , led to villas , gardens , churches , healthy public walks . |
| 21 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 22 | The reports of the amnestic effects of protein synthesis inhibitors were first ignored , often on the same sorts of a priori grounds that had led to my initial scepticism , and only after some struggle accepted by these definers of the field . |
| 23 | He was behaving in a secretive , high-handed way — the way that had led to their disastrous partnership with Beador . |
| 24 | Erm Mao was worried that as , i in the course of the , the latter stages of directive and the there had been abuses of the system by Party members and that had led to the Party getting a bad name with the peasants and the way to rectify that was to publish the Communist Party membership so everybody in the village would know who was a Communist Party member and they would be able to see , Mao believed , that on the whole Party members had behaved properly , they had n't exploited the situation for their own advantage and where they have they would be , there would be a with them to correct . |
| 25 | It had been too far in the future for either of them to contemplate during the whirlwind few hours that had led to their arrival . |
| 26 | She had n't been a patient for over twenty years , since she 'd had the barrage of undignified tests and minor operations that had led to nothing but disappointment . |
| 27 | He played down the adverse conditions that had led to low lambing rates by pointing to the limit of 205,000 tonnes that could be sent to Europe under the voluntary restraint agreement . |
| 28 | Upstairs , Big Momma began to dream of the sun and the warmth of the breezes that had played around her since she was young . |
| 29 | Soon after its talks with Wells Fargo fell through , Security Pacific announced that it was cutting back its international operations , once a big growth area , because of bad loans in Britain and Australia that had contributed to a $230m fourth-quarter loss . |
| 30 | The surprise announcement of British entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism appeared to have solved , at least in the short term , the long-standing divisions in the party and government over the correct approach to Europe — divisions that had contributed to Lawson 's resignation a year earlier . |