Example sentences of "[that] in [adj] [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubts concerning Gates 's role in the affair were sufficiently strong , however , that in 1987 he had withdrawn his name after being nominated as CIA director ( having served as acting director from late 1986 because of William Casey 's incapacitation through illness ) , in view of doubts about his likely confirmation [ see p. 35187 ] . |
| 2 | Although Keating , as Treasurer , was responsible for much of the current economic position — it was widely accepted that in 1987 he had allowed the economy to overheat , and had been forced to use high interest rates to cool it , thereby exacerbating the impact of the world recession — he was also widely perceived as the only Cabinet member with the experience and stature to provide an alternative to the leadership of Hawke . |
| 3 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
| 4 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 5 | The paperwork was so vast that in 1988 I had to add an entire floor in my house in Ireland to accommodate it , and that turned out not to be enough . |
| 6 | The French economy was so weak that in 1953 it had to renege on an OEEC agreement of two years earlier . |
| 7 | She told the court that she had known eighteen-year-old Beno for three years , that in 1941 he had lost his power of speech when his lodgings suffered a direct hit , and that thereafter he had lived with the fantasy of becoming an air force officer . |
| 8 | I only know that in 1990 I had to pay £20,000 or thereabouts in interest repayments alone for a business loan excluding repayment of the mortgage . |