Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lofty idea that India could endure as a secular democracy of diverse peoples had come under open attack from the Hindu chauvinists of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) . |
| 2 | Redondo , for the union , and González , for the party , hoped to reproduce in Spain the same kind of social welfare capitalism that similar union-party combinations had introduced in northern Europe between 1945 and 1975 . |
| 3 | International relief organizations had warned in early October that large areas of Sudan , Ethiopia and northern Somalia faced severe food shortages . |
| 4 | Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction . |
| 5 | His eyes had gone to positive slits by now . |
| 6 | Ruth swung to see his eyes had changed to cold hostility and the set of his jaw was so damned determined it chilled her to the very marrow of her bones . |
| 7 | Instead of looking angry , she realised , the dark eyes had kindled with fresh amusement . |
| 8 | The other parties had met with mixed success and it was obvious that the enemy were mounting far stronger guards on their airfields . |
| 9 | The three parties had disagreed on major issues and the coalition had been undermined by national discontent over recent austerity measures . |
| 10 | Abbott C.J. , with whom Bayley J. agreed on this point , said the payment might have been voluntary if the parties had stood on equal terms , and continued , at p. 735 : |
| 11 | In early 1939 , Lord Hailey had voiced fears that ‘ the problem would frankly become unmanageable ’ , but his appeals to the government to support the refugee cause with public funds had met with blank refusal . |
| 12 | In May 1856 , two months after his speech in Moscow , the tsar met Nazimov at Brest and discovered that , in the north-west , his words had fallen on fruitful soil . |
| 13 | Reporting on his efforts to get the three opposition parties to agree on a common agenda , Mr Christie said he feared the argument that 75 per cent of Scots had voted for constitutional change at the last election lost validity without some unifying factor , enhancing the Tories ' claims of legitimacy . |
| 14 | Ferenczi had reported on little Arpad , who had a great interest and identification with chickens . |
| 15 | Comprehensivization , he muttered to himself , seemed to have had much the same effect on the middle-middle class in England as racial integration in schools had had on similar people in the States . |
| 16 | Both vessels had withdrawn from Colombian territorial waters by Jan. 9 and the incident did not prevent a meeting taking place between representatives from Colombia , Peru and Bolivia on Jan. 10 in Santa Cruz , Bolivia , for the purpose of preparing the ground for the international drug summit ( which Bush was expected to attend ) scheduled to begin in the Colombian city of Cartagena on Feb 15 . |
| 17 | Martial law , expected by many to continue at least until the Asian Games in September , has been formally ended both in Beijing and Lhasa , though the troops remain ( mid-May ) , the first anniversaries had passed without significant incident . |
| 18 | Blood-beads had seeped from tiny capillaries in the butterfly 's wings . |
| 19 | It looks , then , as if the reformers had laboured in vain . |
| 20 | In many cases these responses had developed without clear policy decisions having been taken . |
| 21 | A defence lawyer said both defendants had come from broken homes and had been brought up by their mothers . |
| 22 | The Communist Party wrote to the National Executive of the Labour Party on 25 November applying for affiliation ; they based their claim on the federal nature of the labour movement and the help which Communists had given to Labour candidates . |
| 23 | The mistakes occurred over a ‘ considerable period ’ when responsibility for individual loans was transferred between benefit offices because recipients had moved to new addresses . |
| 24 | Consumers throughout the EC and in other wealthy countries had responded by increased purchases , making it the fastest- growing sector of the meat industry |
| 25 | There would have been the ill-lit halls , impractical sanitary arrangements , filthy rush-laid floors and sparsely furnished rooms ; and if period duplicates had existed of Elizabethan interiors or classical Queen Anne houses that showed the inadequate lighting , heating and plumbing of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , how much easier , the guests agreed , it would be to appreciate the modern refinements which their own contemporaries took so much for granted . |
| 26 | Thus even if separate communities had begun with similar ways , it is likely that the processes of structuration would lead to divergence over time . |
| 27 | He made the point that , whilst the mail order companies had lived with bad debt for years , for such as the building societies it was a new phenomenon . |
| 28 | In waves they attacked , driving them back to stop the raising of the Stones which eagles had seen in other places . |
| 29 | In early September the Khmers Rouges had called on Akashi to resign as UNTAC chief , accusing him of wanting to " sacrifice the Cambodian people to the economic interests of Japan , which wants to have the markets of the Vietnamese expansionists " . |
| 30 | The commission found that Galileo 's judges had acted in good faith but had been " incapable of dissociating faith from an age-old cosmology " . |