Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice had seen a number of films where that had succeeded , and more importantly thought it likely that everybody had seen at least one film where that less than daring idea had been tried . |
| 2 | One consequence of this was that only two Western publishers exhibited at the 1992 Belgrade Book Fair , where 90 had shown their books in 1990 . |
| 3 | They had been found in the royal palace , where most had served as altar furnishings . |
| 4 | The furniture , the pictures , the loved knick-knacks , all told their story of a lifetime spent together in this small community where both had played useful parts . |
| 5 | More than 35,000 had fled Haiti since the coup but only 9,000 had been admitted to the USA to have their cases further examined . |
| 6 | The article went on to announce that although 35,000 had passed through the Tiller schools , not one Girl had been involved in a divorce , they had nearly all got married and to keep the record straight she hastily added , ‘ Those that had n't , all hoped to do so ’ . |
| 7 | Fewer than fifty had survived to ask for quarter , and fewer still had received it . |
| 8 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 9 | Although this had begun as a joint Anglo-French operation , Britain had withdrawn her forces , leaving the French either to carry on alone or to withdraw . |
| 10 | The higher income of married couples and men living alone was the combined result of the continued involvement of men in the labour market after the statutory retirement age , although this had decreased sharply over the previous few years , and of the receipt of occupational pensions . |
| 11 | Another regulation stipulated that government and party officials were to resign from commercial posts by the end of March 1989 , although this remained hedged about with exceptions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the briefing it was not actually uttered , but there was a rumour that there was a woman and child on the Argosy , so this had made it even more important that we keep a good look out and try to find City of Glasgow . |
| 14 | Once this had happened , however , the soil was subject to compaction and crusting as well as erosion by sheetwash . |
| 15 | Once this had happened , attitudes toward , and images of , youth were profoundly altered ( though , of course , the alteration was a process over time , not a dramatic moment ) and a new pattern of age relations began to develop . |
| 16 | Once this had yielded a conclusion , there was no room for further debate . |
| 17 | Although these had seen their origin in the reign of Henry IV , it was to be in his son 's brief reign that something of a revolution ( whose effects , however , were not to last ) took place . |
| 18 | Some workers turned to Palestinian unions , although these had had a chequered career . |
| 19 | Before 1977 there had been no formal ranking of the local authorities , and more than seventy had gained something from Urban Programme expenditure . |
| 20 | While the progress towards the reunion of separated churches has been much slower than many had hoped , the last sixty years have seen dialogue and joint action at many levels , from the local to the international , between Christian communities which had for long centuries been very largely isolated from each other . |
| 21 | According to the study , the means-tested benefit is reaching its targets more often and more effectively than many had feared . |
| 22 | According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted . |
| 23 | He announced that growth in GDP during 1989 had totalled 4.6 per cent , a figure higher than many had predicted . |
| 24 | The interest charge , at £35m against £24m , was lower than many had expected . |
| 25 | Without him , Arthur Porritt later recalled , ‘ the momentum of the movement swiftly spent itself ’ and although many had criticized him greatly for his involvement in Liberal party manoeuvrings ( which will be discussed in Chapter 9 ) , all recognized his gift of organization , something which ‘ amounted to genius ’ . |
| 26 | Thus , for example , when asked whether they had ever thought seriously about early retirement before the prospect of redundancy was raised , less than one-quarter had done so . |
| 27 | By Tuesday , January 22nd , more than 2,500 had offered their epistolary services . |
| 28 | The Confederation of Independent Bulgarian Trade Unions ( CITUB ) , which called the strike , claimed that 770,000 workers had taken part , but the government said that a maximum of 330,000 were involved and the rival labour federation Podkrepa ( " Support " ) claimed that no more than 10,000 had stopped work . |
| 29 | Fewer than one-fifth of respondents had experienced upward mobility and slightly fewer than one-tenth had experienced downward mobility . |
| 30 | Mr. Walker : Although 1 had intended to publish my detailed answer in the official Report , in view of the Hon. Lady 's long supplementary question , I shall place my answer on the record now . |