Example sentences of "[adj] had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or maybe the French had marched past this crossroads and were already nearing Brussels ? |
| 2 | The point of contact between British and French colonies was still on the seacoast , and here the British regular forces and the colonial militia co-operated effectively and captured the fortress of Louisbourg , which the French had fortified at immense cost to command the entrance to the St. Lawrence and hold back the British in Nova Scotia . |
| 3 | But by the ninth century this had degenerated into gross confusion , under cover of which the worship of Baal-Melqart , the official god of Tyre , had crept in and was widely corrupting faith in God . |
| 4 | The introduction of detailed measurement and the systematic logging of failures has raised everyone 's awareness of our OTIF performance and this had led to increased cooperation and feedback between all departments . |
| 5 | In several instances this had led to joint certification agreements by which SCOTVEC and the body concerned award certificates jointly . |
| 6 | Obviously this had led to considerable controversy between Marxists and non-Marxists as to whether Marx had fully understood capitalism and whether or not subsequent developments have invalidated his account of its structure of power . |
| 7 | In the UK this had led to high unemployment and the overall decline in manufacturing that marked ‘ deindustrialization ’ in the early 1980s . |
| 8 | Some had called for public acceptance that homosexuals and drug users were the only people facing a real risk of getting AIDS . |
| 9 | A strongly worded White House statement on March 7 had appealed for international support in stopping the operation of the Rabta plant . |
| 10 | After a dramatic ‘ slide rule ’ finish , Hampshire 's men edged out Yorkshire by a single rubber after three had tied on two group wins . |
| 11 | Initially these had applied to some building programmes in 1974/75 , but the new controls were extended and grafted on to volume control in 1976 . |
| 12 | Most of the firms affected were open for business on Monday morning ; all had moved into temporary accommodation by mid-week . |
| 13 | How many had come into this squat or that , asking , " Any of your soup left , Alice ? " and then sat breaking bread into it , handing back their plates for more . |
| 14 | The previous month a British television programme had alleged that Goodman International had indulged in widespread abuse of the EC subsidy system for beef exports . |
| 15 | Slightly raised intraocular pressures were controlled with timolol 0.25% twice daily but with no improvement in acuity , which by March 1992 had deteriorated to 6/36 right and 6/60 left . |
| 16 | The danger is if Mr X had entered into that transaction partly with a view to avoiding tax then the entire gross income without any deduction for trustee expenses and indeed ( in strictness ) for the payments of interest under the loan will be taxed upon Mr X. He would have made a transfer of an asset . |
| 17 | Of the 25 hypertensive men , by 1989 five had died at mean age 47.8 ( range 40–54 ) years , four of cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease and one of colorectal cancer . |
| 18 | Only two years earlier the Twelve had battled at epic length over increasing the EC budget for the years to 1992 from 0.7 per cent of each member state 's gross national product to nearly 1.2 per cent , with the ceiling fixed at over £30 billion . |
| 19 | In the same century universal history also flourished , mainly with the object of determining the end of the world , after the year 1000 had passed without any sign of its impending occurrence . |
| 20 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 21 | The house which Kanaan Abu Khadra fled in April 1948 had lain in semi-derelict condition for years , its windows partly boarded up . |
| 22 | Each had appealed against this finding , and each appeal had been turned down . |
| 23 | That had led to after-dark house calls by ‘ unsavoury and heavily-built men who were none too polite ’ . |
| 24 | Everything he had done that had seemed at all kind had been part of a plan to make her face her past for his mother 's sake . |
| 25 | Previously the Central Bank had carried out a series of devaluations of the new cruzado , which on its introduction in January 1989 had exchanged at near equity with the United States dollar . |
| 26 | Interest rates , running at an unexpected eight-year high , had increased the debt service burden , while slower growth had reduced tax revenues ; an effort to reduce domestic interest rates in January 1990 had resulted in heavy selling of the Canadian dollar . |