Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome of the vote had been determined partly by reports that Pakistan had sought ballistic missile technology from China . |
| 2 | Hill had accused Supreme Court aspirant Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment years earlier , and feminists were outraged when the court rebuffed her claims . |
| 3 | President Gorbachev had released Ukrainian Defence Minister , Gen. Konstantin Morozov , from his duties in the Soviet Army on Oct. 1 . |
| 4 | It emerged that Michael Heseltine , Kenneth Clarke , Malcolm Rifkind and Tristan Garel-Jones from the Trade , Home , Defence and Foreign Ministries had signed public interest immunity certificates to keep the Whitehall memos out of court . |
| 5 | Britta had anticipated harsh design criticism but the fashion buyers and the press are pleasantly surprised . |
| 6 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 7 | Fears that the march would heighten communal tension had prompted Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao to summon a special all-party meeting on Dec. 10 in a fruitless effort to persuade the BJP to call it off . |
| 8 | Reports on Aug. 8 said that UN-IAEA inspectors had discovered sophisticated centrifuge technology used to produce enriched uranium at al-Farat , 30 km south-west of Baghdad [ see p. 38211 ; 38307 ; 38360 ] . |
| 9 | The 21-year-old had seized 58-year-old taxi driver Derek round the throat and grabbed his £68 takings . |
| 10 | Incomers had to combine harsh subsistence farming with hunting in forest and stream . |
| 11 | On Jan. 30 Schwarzkopf declared that the allies had achieved complete air supremacy and that the air offensive against enemy ground units was due to be intensified still further . |
| 12 | The official US investigation had blamed poor operator training , lax maintenance procedures and deficiencies in the regulatory system . |
| 13 | I had a distinct impression that many of the organisers had had professional theatre experience and that , naturally , their point of view was coloured by this , while the teachers had arrived at the point of realising the potential of drama as a tool of education . |
| 14 | In December 1989 President George Bush had given final US approval of the 50-year compact whereby the US would provide $1,000 million in aid to the heavily indebted Pacific country . |
| 15 | Three patients had developed anastomotic disease recurrence and had required a further resection and reanastomosis 8–14 years before this study . |
| 16 | Perhaps Britain had to undergo painful shock treatment if she was ever to become as economically dynamic as France or West Germany . |
| 17 | Sir William Harcourt had declared ‘ We are all Socialists now ’ ; and in 1894 , as Chancellor of the Exchequer in a Liberal Government had introduced graduated income tax and death duties , so activating the principle of redistributive taxation . |
| 18 | The Lancashire members were furious when they heard that Gooch and the other England selectors had axed Red Rose favourite Phil DeFreitas , preferring Essex pacemen Neil Foster and Mark Ilott . |
| 19 | I was wondering , would you know if any other subscriber to the hunt had received similar hate mail ? |
| 20 | Although admission was free the public had to purchase Red Cross badge which gave the spectators temporary membership . |
| 21 | The PRD and PAN claimed that the elections had been a " scandalous fraud " , that the PRI had organized widespread ballot rigging , and that it had used violence to guarantee victory . |
| 22 | Newsagents across the country had cleared extra floor space for the 60,000 additional copies of the paper . |
| 23 | Mr Bates stressed that this was the first time his family had used private health care . |
| 24 | Bell had done original design work on a defunct prop-powered XP–59 and that designation was carried over to the new effort in an attempt to mask the true nature of the project . |