Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those companies surveyed , 56 per cent had no formal environmental policy , and only 29 per cent had referred to environmental concerns in their annual reports . |
| 2 | The evening tide had been a modest eighteen footer and had ebbed to low water an hour ago . |
| 3 | The committee calculated , for each university , the unemployment rate expected if the fate of graduates in each subject had conformed to national averages . |
| 4 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 5 | Condemned to death in 1987 , his sentence had commuted to hard labour for life in 1988 [ see p. 36266 ] . |
| 6 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But whatever else was lost , the impetus that Winckelmann had given to Greek scholarship in Germany survived ; and if we wish to understand its subsequent history and the remarkable growth of German classical scholarship as a whole , we should not forget his formative contribution , even though much of the impending development can hardly be traced directly back to him . |
| 9 | Yes , that was the card he had given to old Jackdaw to post but he really did n't want all this aggravation , he was happy the way he was . |
| 10 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 11 | Sir Willie Induppe had travelled to various dealing firms , including : Buckingham Securities , Tudorbury Securities , Fox Milton & Co , Instant Rate , and Equity Share ( now UK & General ) . |
| 12 | There was no indication whether individuals within the subgroups had travelled to either their country of origin , if appropriate , or — if born in one geographical location — had travelled to other areas where the incidence of environmental toxoplasma exposed them to increased risk of this infection . |
| 13 | Many of their employees had travelled to sub-Saharan Africa , south or South East Asia , and Latin America , where HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases are prevalent . |
| 14 | So had several issues from the previous August when Lebanon 's football team under the captaincy of Pierre Gemayel , a Maronite Christian , had travelled to National Socialist Germany to attend the Olympic Games in Berlin . |
| 15 | De Klerk said later that the visit was successful in that it had given the US side " the correct perspective " on developments in South Africa , and that the meeting with Bush had amounted to important progress towards " the final normalization of relations between South Africa and the USA " . |
| 16 | Gen. Kassem asserted that Kuwait had been an integral component of the southern Iraqi province of Basra under Ottoman rule and that Iraq had succeeded to Turkish territorial sovereignty over Basra with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire after the First World War . |
| 17 | Mr Nick Mitchell , the head of personnel for the signals and telecommunications section , said the board had come to certain conclusions about pay and conditions for its 7,000 S&T engineers after a review of manpower and reward systems . |
| 18 | Earlier talks on a Franco — Italian-Benelux customs union had come to little , partly because the economies involved were too competitive . |
| 19 | He had come to national and international notice in June when , in interviews first with the United States and then with the Soviet press , and at a conference of the CPSU 's radical reformist Democratic Platform faction , he had alleged that , in collusion with the CPSU , the KGB was continuing illegal covert operations against Soviet citizens . |
| 20 | The secretary of the new NILP branch was Ivan Cooper , who had come to public attention the previous year when he resigned from the Bond 's Glen and Claudy Young Unionist Association and had stood as an Independent candidate for the Londonderry Rural District Council . |
| 21 | Oleg Kalugin , a former major-general in the KGB who had come to public prominence recently for alleging continuing KGB abuses of power , was elected to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies in a by-election in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar on Sept. 2 . |
| 22 | had carried to farcical , and imaginative , extremes . |
| 23 | If in the 1960s firms had responded to regional policy assistance , for instance , it was necessary to know why at that time they had needed that assistance . |
| 24 | By Sept. 9 the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , had responded to Turkish objections by recommending that some additional Iraqi oil shipments should be permitted in order to allow Iraq to pay Turkey transport royalties ( whether in cash or in kind ) for use of the pipeline . |
| 25 | Rather than only recording those instances of violence that the women had reported to official agencies such as the police , they explored a wide range of violent incidents from the women 's points of view . |
| 26 | Their Housing Finance Act of 1972 set out to adapt the ‘ fair-rent ’ principle , which Labour had applied to private rents in the 1960s , to the local authority sector . |
| 27 | However , critics pointed out that the Soviet Union already had an upgraded fifth model of the SS-18 and was able , therefore , to get by on half its present firepower ; they also claimed that the USA had bowed to Soviet wishes that the START treaty cover all air-launched , nuclear-tipped missiles with a range of more than 375 miles ( 600 km ) . |
| 28 | Hungary 's former communist government had bowed to public pressure and pulled out of the project on environmental grounds in 1989 , halting the construction of a dam and reservoir at Nagymarós [ see pp. 36664 ; 37048 ] . |
| 29 | There was as yet no uniformity of practice among local authorities , who continued to rely on a wide variety of examining methods , though more had turned to external test agencies — organisations or examiners — than in the past . |
| 30 | Jake 's tone was lethal as he looked down at her with eyes that had turned to blue ice . |