Example sentences of "[adj] had [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had necessitated a large number of meetings , particularly for the Socialisation of Industries Committee and the Social Services Committee : ministers had tended to bring too many items to committee ; senior ministers had wanted to keep an eye on their more junior colleagues , and as a result a heavy burden fell on a handful . |
| 2 | Suddenly , this had become a special event and Lewis knew it , for his playing took on a new intensity as he began to alternate between rock ‘ n ’ roll classics from his early career back in the Fifties Sun era to later country material . |
| 3 | This had become a common occurrence . |
| 4 | There was growing public concern at the high toll of deaths and injuries among servicemen in peacetime , and this had become a significant factor in the worsening problem of draft-dodging . |
| 5 | This had become a degenerative condition due to a fall early in his career . |
| 6 | Over the centuries officers had had to nurse their wooden ships for structural reasons and this had provided a certain measure of protection against excessive sail-carrying . |
| 7 | We went along the river bank : two smugglers were being hanged near Billingsgate and this had attracted a large crowd to watch their last dance . |
| 8 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 9 | The British had launched a powerful attack , and first Mersa Matruh ( which Mussolini had planned to enter in triumph ) fell , then Bardia and Tobruk . |
| 10 | Some had travelled a considerable distance for example from Australia , Germany , Belgium and the USA and were not disappointed by either the welcome or the expertise offered them . |
| 11 | Of these only 2 had regained a significant amount of their lost weight . |
| 12 | A German Foreign Ministry spokesperson reported that a meeting of EC representatives in Lisbon on April 2 had approved a German proposal for a formal EC protest to the Turkish government over the recent military action against civilians [ see pp. 38833-34 ; for resignation of German Defence Minister over sale of vehicles to Turkey see p. 38822 ] . |
| 13 | Another had kept a continual eye on the grain trade by serving in a Red Army supply regiment and then managing a state grain-collecting centre . |
| 14 | In the Queens Head one drinker murmured about seeing a man in a green and black tracksuit , another had spied a red car they had never noticed before . |
| 15 | Government revenues for the financial year ending in November 1991 had shown a considerable reduction compared with the previous financial year . |
| 16 | The accused had fixed a new glass fibre wing on his car the day after the accident , and he said he could n't remember what he 'd done with the old one . |
| 17 | The death of their mother , Ann Wordsworth , in 1778 , when William was seven and Dorothy six had cast a long shadow over their early lives , and had left them and their three brothers effectively orphaned . |
| 18 | But in the longer perspective the events of 1963 had demonstrated a profound dialogue of the deaf between the strikers , who had chanted " Charlot , des sous ! " |
| 19 | In 1888 Fellows began buying shares in the old Grand Union and by 1904 had gained a considerable holding . |
| 20 | He took over Denham from Korda in 1938 and by 1941 had acquired a controlling interest in Oscar Deutsch 's Odeon cinema chain and the Gaumont-British set-up — both its cinemas and its filmmaking companies . |
| 21 | Of these , only three had had a continuous hospital admission lasting more than five years . |
| 22 | Once these had made a balanced C-shape , I then filled in any remaining gaps with some hybrid musk roses ‘ Ballerina ’ , which are a lovely shade of pink and are very useful flowers . |
| 23 | Some workers turned to Palestinian unions , although these had had a chequered career . |
| 24 | In Spain the struggle over the succession in 1702–13 had seen a prolonged effort by Catalonia and much of Aragon to throw off Castilian rule , an effort which drove them to support the Habsburg Archduke Charles against the eventually victorious Bourbon claimant to the throne , Philip V , grandson of Louis XIV . |
| 25 | It was reported on Feb. 2 that an emergency session of the Moldavian Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 31 had declared a six-month moratorium on " all political events which are likely to cause interethnic strife " . |
| 26 | In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 . |
| 27 | I knew that we all had sold a fair number of tickets to friends , relatives , colleagues , in fact , anyone who would buy them , but it would n't be enough to fill one tier . |
| 28 | The new ethos of the '80s had had a positive effect on the character of the people , just as the ethos of the late ‘ 70s had a severely negative effect . |
| 29 | Despite his humbling defeat for the governorship of California in 1962 , the latter had made a remarkable comeback . |
| 30 | Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora reported that during his May meeting in Washington with US President George Bush the latter had shown a serious attitude to the drug problem ( the US government having agreed almost to double Bolivia 's anti-drug aid , to $33,000,000 ) . |