Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Yenan Koreans had formed a separate party , the New Democratic Party .
2 Partnerships had enabled the use of community schools at Liphook and Bordon to be run so as to offer their facilities to the public throughout the year , and the new methods had reduced the inevitable deficit of the sports centre to well below the national average .
3 The inter-war working-class holiday organizations had occupied a significant place , gradually introducing a previously untravelled sector of the population to the educative and recreative value of foreign travel while yet accommodating a more traditional pattern of holiday-making .
4 Meanwhile Richard and his brothers had attended a great court held by Louis VII at Paris in the spring of 1173 .
5 The Yang brothers had taken a prominent part in quelling the " turmoil " in mid-1989 and presided over a massive programme of political education within the army .
6 The brothers had purchased a beautiful metal casket as a sign of their love for their mother .
7 National assertiveness reached the largest and most important of the Soviet Union 's republics , the Russian , in May 1990 , following the elections to the republican Congress of People 's Deputies in which radical candidates had won a substantial proportion of the vote ( see above , p. 59 ) .
8 Legislation covering the conduct of elections , adopted at the same time , included the stipulation that presidential candidates had to pay a non-repayable deposit of CFA1,000,000 ( US$3,700 ) .
9 Fakrid 's eyes had turned a livid yellow .
10 The eyes had become a jet-black bar that flamed .
11 His eyes had acquired a thoughtful gleam that made Polly 's heart lurch erratically .
12 A thousand eyes had watched the brief altercation , and now the whispers began in earnest .
13 Arenas had remained a hard-line Stalinist who opposed the political reforms under way in the Soviet Union .
14 The fact that it was the first time in the 20th century that either of the major parties had selected an all-southern election ticket reflected the widespread belief that only by recapturing support lost to the Republicans in the south could the Democrats hope to win the presidency .
15 There was widespread acknowledgement that the absence of the Unionist parties had created a partial vacuum .
16 It was held there that the parties had made a binding contract , albeit with the price still outstanding .
17 They indicated that both of the main political parties had reached a similar conclusion .
18 In Denmark seven of the eight parliamentary parties had reached a national compromise on Oct. 27 on additions to the Treaty on the basis of which they would support a second referendum in 1993 [ see also p. 39158 ] .
19 Her husband was a wealthy man who belonged to a family that owned a successful printing and publishing business , and the parties had enjoyed a comfortable life-style during the marriage .
20 Preliminary results indicated that right-wing parties had won a clear majority of seats , underlining a shift in power to the right in favour of the government , and marking a heavy defeat for the left , in particular the PT .
21 Lifestyles remained simple but identification with the masses was impossible if kids had to get a decent education .
22 Many of the heads had made an active move towards involving more people ( even all staff in one school ) in an attempt to make more staff aware of the need to plan finance as a ‘ whole-school issue ’ and to prioritise resource needs .
23 As we saw earlier ( Ch.7 ) , wool taxation to raise war funds had provided a protective tariff for the textile industry , and the war had damaged one of the main Continental cloth-manufacturing centres in Flanders .
24 The Britons claimed to discern a ‘ hidden hand ’ in British government which had delayed the victory against Germany in the war , and argued that Jews had organized an international conspiracy designed to promote anarchy and disorder in the world .
25 Culturally , the Palestinian Jews had to face the increasing differentiation of the diaspora , both in Mesopotamia and in Egypt ; they also had to run a state efficiently within a Hellenistic — milieu .
26 The TRACE II designers had to duplicate the entire knowledge network over and over in order to represent the time course of speech processing .
27 For various reasons the specific item search , into which the designers had put a good deal of effort , was less successful .
28 In October of that year the AR regretted that nearly all competition entries had evaded the key problem and had signally failed ‘ to achieve the genuine pub atmosphere ’ .
29 Cars had to use the single line to cross over from one track to the other when reversing .
30 No one in the cars had seen the tottering figure further down the road .
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