Example sentences of "[adj] had [vb pp] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transportation of useful plants from one part of the world to another had begun in the eighteenth century , and we saw in the previous chapter how Kew Gardens became the hub of the British empire 's efforts to replace indigenous species with imported ones of greater commercial value . |
| 2 | According to statistics provided by human rights and business organizations , 1,598 Guatemalans had been murdered , 2,517 had suffered bodily harm and 906 had disappeared in the first six months of 1989 . |
| 3 | Of the seven warmest years in the 20th century ( which were , in order , 1990 , 1988 , 1983 , 1987 , 1944 , 1989 and 1981 ) six had occurred in the last decade . |
| 4 | Alexander I had decided in the second half of 1825 that the international problems which derived from the conflict between Greeks and Turks could not be resolved by the Concert of Europe . |
| 5 | Louis XIV had seen in the last days of his reign the growing pointlessness of the traditional Franco-Austrian antagonism , but his efforts to achieve some agreement with the Habsburgs were not followed up by his successors . |