Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] had [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 2 | The paper quotes documents which suggest the pilot learnt that the French authorities had received several bomb threats against UTA 's African flights which were not passed on to him . |
| 3 | Perhaps no pictorial revolution of the magnitude and depth of Cubism had been effected with such extreme rapidity , and during the years between 1907 and 1910 every few months had witnessed some radical change in the appearance of Cubist painting . |
| 4 | Few heads had allocated any of their extra capitation to the development of productive links with parents and the community , while nearly all of them considered that such PNP resources as the Authority 's advisory and support staff , the INSET programme and even the refurbishment of their own schools had made little or no impact on home-school links , however effective they may have been in furthering the programme 's other objectives . |
| 5 | Our telephone was jammed with calls of approval and thanks , For some listeners had Feared that the new C.B.C . |
| 6 | Earlier some engineers had derided this side of the business as mere ‘ ironmongery ’ , and there had also been political constraints on development . |
| 7 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |
| 8 | The inside was completely hollow , and broken limbs had left several holes that mink could enter through . |
| 9 | He concluded by saying that , as far as he was aware , none of the council 's social workers had attended any courses of instruction organised by the Reachout Trust . |
| 10 | Few officers had had any training in management , politics or diplomacy . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , Piper , if those German bastards had overrun this position , you would be a dead bloody duck by now ! ’ |
| 12 | On landing I sought for the cottage occupied by the Duke of Hamilton 's piper , in which some friends had found most comfortable quarters the season before . |
| 13 | Now the soaring trunks had raised this source of food high in the sky , creating a dense canopy that cut out much of the light . |
| 14 | The terms of the Soviet plan , now made public , were that ( i ) Iraq would make a full and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait ; ( ii ) the withdrawal would start on the second day after hostilities ceased ; ( iii ) Iraqi forces would depart according to a fixed timetable ; ( iv ) after two-thirds of Iraqi forces had withdrawn economic sanctions against Iraq would be lifted ; ( v ) after all Iraqi forces had left all UN Security Council resolutions against Iraq would lapse ; ( vi ) all prisoners of war would be released when the ceasefire became effective ; ( vii ) the troop withdrawal would be monitored by forces from countries not involved in the conflict , under direction of the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) work on details and specifics would continue and would be presented on Feb. 22 to Security Council members . |
| 15 | Bach also found that certain homoeopathic remedies could change the bacterial flora of patients although no conventional drugs or dietary regimes had produced any significant change . |
| 16 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 17 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 18 | " Every state " , wrote a historian at the end of the eighteenth century when such questions had lost much of their earlier emotional charge , " while contending for this high and delicate point , has brought forward every sort of argument , however weighty , or however trivial , which could apply exclusively to itself " . |
| 19 | Meanwhile the Japanese forces had swept all before them in a huge arc some 4000 kilometres from Tokyo : Malaya , Thailand , Hong Kong , Singapore , much of Burma , and the Dutch East Indies fell by March 942 . |
| 20 | On Nov. 27 , 1989 , mujaheddin representatives handed over two Soviet prisoners of war to the Soviet ambassador to Pakistan in Peshawar ; this was the first occasion on which the rebel forces had released any Soviet prisoners . |
| 21 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
| 22 | Only 10 batsmen had scored more Test runs in a day ( Bradman and Hammond four times each ) , which places Sohail in rare company . |
| 23 | If the abolition of the B Specials and the other limited interventions had brought such plaudits on the mainland and from Irish republicans , how much more would result from the abolition of the government and parliament of Northern Ireland ! |
| 24 | His doubts about the relentlessness of Singapore 's Westernization and his relative sensitivity towards the concerns of the city state 's ethnic components had attracted some support . |
| 25 | Those gold mines had stolen much more than gold from Africa . |
| 26 | combined their data for left and mixed handers , since their previous analyses had shown little or no difference between the two groups of patients . |
| 27 | In 1912 he believed that the ‘ principles of self-government ’ had already ‘ been applied in their most extreme form ’ in Canada and South Africa — a date at which neither of these countries had acquired any formal control over their external relations . |
| 28 | ‘ Nevertheless , in our view by then , these weaknesses had done much to undermine the credibility of the system in the eyes of TECs . ’ |
| 29 | Living with Horatia , Lord Cronmore 's daughter , for three years had brought that about . |
| 30 | Previous studies had done little to look at differences between children of different abilities . |