Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his probing to the roots of religion had discovered simply the bankruptcy of those roots , or at least their apparent irrelevance to the job of finding a meaning in modern life . |
| 2 | French President François Mitterrand had put forward the idea of a European confederation in a speech on Dec. 31 , 1989 , shortly after the fall of eastern Europe 's communist regimes ; he reiterated his ideas in Prague in September 1990 [ see p. 37724 ] . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that Jennie Walker had played quite a part in John 's life before they were married . |
| 4 | Bella had stayed there a bit , though , along with her ghastly cronies . |
| 5 | Dr Sasaki , who believed that the enemy had hit only the building he was in , got bandages and began to bind the wounds of those inside the hospital ; while outside , all over Hiroshima , maimed and dying citizens turned their unsteady steps toward the Red Cross Hospital to begin an invasion that was to make Dr Sasaki forget his own private nightmares for a long , long time … . |
| 6 | Edward had gained only the Agenais in 1279 and souther Sain-tongue in 1286 , although these were valuable additions to his lands , partly because of the number of new settlements or bastides previously founded in the Agenais by Alphonse de Poitiers , count of toulouse , between 1259 and his death without heirs in 1271 . |
| 7 | The vote will be seen as a victory for the local authorities , who put so much pressure on the clubs , and many of the delegates were relieved that the vote had taken away the threat of possible punitive action from their local councils . |
| 8 | By mid-1989 , over 90 countries had recognized either the state itself or the declaration . |
| 9 | Thereafter , up to 500 blacks had picketed both the shop in question and another Korean-owned store in the same area . |
| 10 | An action in rem now lay against the trustee , where earlier law had allowed only an action in personam . |
| 11 | In earlier times many miners had worked only a part of their time digging coal ; the rest of their income came from labouring jobs or from a smallholding . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she said , when the shuddering had become only a shiver . |
| 13 | But Anton Rogan scored his first goal for the club with a perfectly-hit volley from the edge of the box in the 31st minute after goalkeeper Digweed had punched away a corner from a jaded-looking Atkinson . |
| 14 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 15 | Chester had put together a deal for the centre which would have cost the Government nothing because it was tied in with private sector development . |
| 16 | In reality it was not part of the city at all ; the builders of Kinsai had carved away the plateau and slotted the massive stones of the defences into place around the old structure so that the marvellous symmetry of the circular layout would not be interrupted . |
| 17 | At the same time , there was no place for the scientists to work because the universities had done virtually no research . |
| 18 | The bell rang before she could open it and Jenna stood just inside the sitting-room in her long housecoat , wondering who on earth it could be ; the post had arrived over an hour ago and she did n't know enough people to be expecting visitors . |
| 19 | The North American economist , John Kenneth Galbraith , took a distinctly positive view , claiming that the crisis had shown both the revival of industrial technology and the reimposition of civic discipline as demonstrated by the pay pause , in the face of difficulties which might have led feebler nations to buckle under , or even lapse into military or other dictatorships . |
| 20 | He knew she had not because the press conference had finished only an hour before and not a drop of alcohol had passed Blanche 's lips . |
| 21 | As a piece , although the overall process had taken almost a century to unfold and the measures were sometimes half-hearted in terms of their practical realisation , these changes signalled the arrival of a distinctively modern penal system which rested on the reformative and deterrent influence of the prison as its major instrument . |
| 22 | This group had met almost every week for nearly two years . |
| 23 | One of her students , for instance , had told her that the class struggle was an obsolete concept , and an eminent academic had put forward the view that relations between capitalist and socialist states were devoid of class content ( he had previously maintained the opposite ) . |
| 24 | There was no light apart from a guttering candle , because the war had ended only a month or so before and the electricity supply had not been restored . |
| 25 | Within 12 minutes , Aled Williams had banged over a second penalty goal as a prelude to a tremendous Swansea surge which brought the second try from Jenkins . |
| 26 | Heffers reported that customers had made absolutely no comment on the matter . |
| 27 | The Docks Board was the biggest company in the ports industry and with its Southampton operations and its Humber and South Wales ports had secured about a quarter of the market . |
| 28 | His wife had died suddenly a couple of years back . |
| 29 | Mr. Barlow and Ena had had quite a giggle about those . |
| 30 | A return to work was negotiated under the conditions prevailing before the strike had begun so the union had prevented a further round of wage reductions ; but this was achieved at such a cost as to convince the leadership of the impossibility of organizing effective strike action in agriculture . |