Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all the show of outward appearances of being a couple however , perhaps there was no deep abiding love and the one left behind hangs onto a myth of a union that had ceased to exist many years ago . |
| 2 | A recent World Bank study of six East Asian countries concluded that Thailand was the only one that had failed to make significant inroads into poverty during the 1980s ( see table ) . |
| 3 | They had both undone their seatbelts and had turned to face each other , the dim streetlighting giving their faces a ghostly orange pallor . |
| 4 | He had led the team that developed the Soviet Union 's atomic bomb and had begun seeking peaceful applications of nuclear power . |
| 5 | Maclean also had been two games down , and had had to play two match points , before surviving on Tuesday against England 's promising 17-year-old , Simon Parke . |
| 6 | His insurers denied the twist of fate was a collision and had refused to pay medical costs . |
| 7 | They were healthy , content , and had failed to develop any taste for internecine warfare . |
| 8 | In that year , the LEA had established an Adult Education Sub-Committee and had agreed to provide financial support for WEA courses in Bedford , Luton and Biggleswade where active branches existed . |
| 9 | A Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman described the Washington Post interview as " distorted " and added , as reported on Radio Pakistan on Feb. 9 , that Pakistan had " considerable capability in the nuclear field " but had decided to use that capability only for peaceful purposes and not to produce nuclear weapons . |
| 10 | Among the outgoing ministers were Miriam Santiago Defensor , the Agrarian Reform Secretary , and Reinerio Reyes , the Transport and Communications Secretary , who had tackled corruption at the ports but had failed to alleviate worsening traffic problems . |
| 11 | An assessment by energy analysts published in the International Atomic Energy Agency 's Bulletin Vol. 32 , No. 1 ( 1990 ) calculated that OPEC oil had not only lost a portion of its share of existing markets , but had failed to make any penetration into new energy markets created by economic growth . |