Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 2 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 3 | All rich , strange and remote , as if it had never happened or had happened to another person . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was as if some authoritative being had decided that from that moment the names that had applied to such objects as soap , cheese , tree or book were to be exchanged for others , and all signs of delight registered by temper tantrums . |
| 9 | Jake 's tone was lethal as he looked down at her with eyes that had turned to blue ice . |
| 10 | She winced , smarting beneath memories of Giles 's disbelief and the greedy delight that had turned to frustrated irritation . |
| 11 | Taplin Green and Keeley — or their ghosts since none of those names now survived in the list of partners — had offices on the south side of New Square a corridor with an uneven floor under the carpeting and doorways that had subsided to odd angles . |
| 12 | At 1st April 1991 , the date of the latest actuarial valuation , the market value of the main UK scheme 's assets was £277.4 million , the actuarial value of which represented 141% of the liability for benefits that had accrued to that date making full allowance for future salary and pension increases and after taking into account benefit changes introduced as of 1st April 1991 . |
| 13 | If the galactic potential were oblate and axisymmetric , the relevant closed orbits would be circular orbits in the equatorial plane of the potential , and a disk of gas that had settled to such orbits would conform to the conventional picture of the galactic disk . |
| 14 | We would then spend a few moments sharing any relevant and deep intuition that had come to any of us , and it was remarkable to see what a full and varied message the daily passage gave us . |
| 15 | Johnson remained relatively unimpressed , even by a glimpse of snow that had persisted to this , the first day of September . |
| 16 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 17 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 18 | It had fallen 50 metres by 10 500 years ago , and had risen to 10 m above OD 4000 years later , when much of the well-known Carse clay was deposited . |
| 19 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 20 | The evening tide had been a modest eighteen footer and had ebbed to low water an hour ago . |
| 21 | He drove an Escort XR3i complete with fluffy toys , and had moved to Lilac Gardens in the eye of the housing price slump , aided by the bequest of a dead aunt . |
| 22 | The lugubrious publican had seen it as his job to repel strangers and had employed to that end an impressive armoury of taciturnity , malevolent glances , warm beer and poor service . |
| 23 | In both cases the MMC held that these companies were efficiently run and had contributed to substantial cost savings , the Schumpeterian view of monopoly to which we referred in Chapter 9 and illustrated in Figure 17–2 . |
| 24 | The suffragettes were weak physically and numerically , without franchise , and had resorted to passive resistance as the only weapon at their disposal . |
| 25 | He had pursued the question when he was in Rome ( in 1098 or 1100 ) , and had spoken to Urban II on the subject . |
| 26 | By Sept. 28-29 the Nabiyev government had conceded talks , attended by observers including the leader of the Democratic Party of Russia , Nikolai Travkin , and had agreed to key opposition demands , including suspending the communist party , nationalizing its property , lifting the state of emergency , and holding presidential elections on Oct. 27 . |
| 27 | In the USSR itself , art flourished at first in experiments after the 1917 Revolution , but became confined to social utility after 1922 . |
| 28 | The length of motorway reached 1,000 kilometres only in 1970 , but had grown to 3,110 kilometres by 1988 . |
| 29 | Kathleen 's hysterics were now slightly muted , but had turned to shattering hiccups . |
| 30 | Manufacturing was 30 per cent of the UK 's GDP in 1950 , but had fallen to 25 per cent by 1984 . |