Example sentences of "the russians had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked if the Russians had provided the Afghans with the latest MiG-29s , he said : ‘ Anything we desire will be given to us but we do not want to escalate the war . ’ |
| 2 | Herr Nordern had been about to say ‘ the bunker , ’ the stretch of waste land behind Friedrichstrasse where , in his concrete tomb , as the Russians had battered their way into the city in 1945 , Hitler had lived his final appalling fantasy ; commanding armies which did not exist , so condemning thousands , hundreds of thousands of civilians to death in those final lunatic days . |
| 3 | After the Dubai 1986 Olympics when England were unlucky not to win against a full-strength USSR , it seemed that gold would be there once the Russians had another off day . |
| 4 | By 1945 the Russians had lost more than 20 million people ( British losses were 400,000 ) and 25 million people were homeless . |
| 5 | But there was even greater bitterness among many Lithuanian nationalists , who felt the Russians had never wanted to understand why the Lithuanians felt resentment against years of oppression . |
| 6 | To further these designs ( primarily , to reach a warm-water port ) , the Russians had persuaded the Iranians to over-estimate their strength against Iraq . |
| 7 | January 1945 , by which time the Russians had established , and officially recognised the Union of Polish Patriots , ( later called the Lubin Committee ) and it proclaimed itself as the provisional government of Poland , a procedure which did not please the British , Americans , or the London Poles . |
| 8 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 9 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 10 | The Russians had known all along that the information Blake was officially giving them was fake . |
| 11 | At this point the whole incident could , perhaps , have been kept from public view , but plainly the Russians had no intention of abiding by normal protocol and were determined to alert the British press . |
| 12 | Very belatedly the Foreign Secretary was forced to admit that the frogman seen by the Russians had been Crabb and , as a result , on 1O May the subject was aired in parliament . |
| 13 | But the fear that nagged MI6 's mind was that the Russians had captured Crabb alive and might produce him to tell the full story . |
| 14 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 15 | The Russians had also had some problems in Beirut when four of their diplomats were abducted by the radical Hizbollah movement . |
| 16 | Even if the Russians had wanted to use the pretext to reconquer the Ukraine , however , they could not have done so . |
| 17 | But the Russians had their own grand plan which made even the North American transcontinental schemes and the Cape to Cairo dream pale into insignificance . |
| 18 | The Russians had no word for landscape till the French arrived with ‘ paysage ’ . |
| 19 | By accident or design the Russians had set it afire , smoking out the surviving French . |
| 20 | At first the Russians had been driven back in disorder , but in the months of July and August they had begun to recover and had driven the Poles back on their tracks until finally the Red Army was at the gates of Warsaw itself . |
| 21 | The French , who throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century had used investment in Russian railways as a way of discomforting German industry , now provided the Poles with capital to continue the work the Russians had started . |
| 22 | In June 1942 the Cabinet formally agreed that there would be no attempt to invade Northern Europe until the Russians had broken the back of the Nazi offensive in the East . |
| 23 | The Russians had suggested that muons — particles that arrive in cosmic rays and are in effect heavy versions of electrons — are the seed that catalyses the fusion . |
| 24 | But even the French navy had to divide itself between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coasts and the Russians had to maintain a small separate fleet in the Black Sea . |
| 25 | The Russians had an equivalent , a two-engined high-winged transporter known as the ‘ Curl ’ . |
| 26 | Whereas , in 1964 , the Russians had only about a quarter of America 's total of ICBM 's , six years later they had achieved parity . |
| 27 | It was extended in the 1760s as the Russians had advanced slightly , to become 457 versts long . |
| 28 | In the latter — the steppe and woodlands inhabited by Tatars , Altaians , Kirgiz , Buryats and Mongols — the Russians had to wage war against formidable enemies who were not only capable of putting up resistance to incursions into their territories , but also able to obtain support from the larger communities of Turkic-Mongol peoples to whom they were related . |
| 29 | Whatever stage of development any of the peoples of Siberia had reached , the occupation of their land by the Russians had a profound effect , either setting off entirely new social developments or accelerating trends which were already present . |
| 30 | We asked whether the Russians had requested that these Cossacks should be turned over to them , and Robertson replied in the negative and added " but they probably will soon " . |