Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indigenous organizations had threatened to boycott the presidential and congressional elections unless their demands were met . |
| 2 | The report stated that another 40 results were outstanding and that repeat elections were to be held in 20 constituencies where candidates had failed to receive the minimum number of votes . |
| 3 | Elections were thus scheduled for Nov. 18 in these five constituencies , and in seven others where candidates had failed to get the necessary minimum number of votes in the July 29 elections [ see p. 37656 ] . |
| 4 | Alternatively , from another perspective , the clergy had acted to preserve the old divisions . |
| 5 | Then , drinking champagne with journalists , he flew home to a Teheran in which his supporters had tried to re-erect the toppled statues of his father . |
| 6 | It was far worse for the Arabs whose homes lay in that part of Palestine in which the United Nations had decided to locate the new state of Israel . |
| 7 | Then I would find that the grass had carpeted the rubble and the bushes had begun to climb the torn traffic lights . |
| 8 | On April 17 a Lebanese newspaper reported , citing Sudanese government sources , that the plotters had planned to reinstall the former President Jaafer al-Nemery and that the Cairo-based opposition umbrella group , the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) , had known of the plot and had sought to arrange a meeting between Nemery and Garang . |
| 9 | Leviticus , a person of such weapon-grade stupidity his mental faculties would probably have improved with the onset of senile dementia , left Scotland because the Conservatives had failed to reverse the Socialist reforms of the previous Labour government : railways still nationalised ; working class breeding like flies now the welfare state existed to prevent the natural culling by disease ; state-owned mines = intolerable . |
| 10 | Unlike the other three Cambodian factions , the Khmers Rouges had refused to facilitate the full deployment of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) in the areas under its control . |
| 11 | The rebels had managed to seize the military headquarters and briefly take ‘ Pineapple Face ’ hostage . |
| 12 | All EC governments had undertaken to give the European Commission , by April 1 , detailed plans for achieving the EC 's target date for stabilising carbon dioxide emissions : by the year 2005 for us , and 2000 for the rest of them . |
| 13 | Successive British governments had failed to tackle the economic and social problems which the area suffered from . |
| 14 | We had almost half an hour of this , then brown , wet walls of rock closed us in , the sound of the engine grinding upwards reverberating in a deep cut , the foglights accentuating the macabre theatricality of our struggle up the path through which Pizarro and his four hundred armoured hidalgoes had climbed to destroy the Inca Empire half a millennium ago . |
| 15 | For others , aberrant leaders and the socio-economic conditions of the interwar years had combined to deny the full fruition of democratic government aspired to by so many Japanese . |
| 16 | These subsidies had helped to maintain the political control of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) in the state . |
| 17 | If Poland was backward it was not because the Poles wanted it so , but because Germany and the other partitioning powers had made it that way , and because the Allies had failed to provide the necessary capital to finance Poland to do the job they required . |
| 18 | British merchant banks had failed to see the enormous unfulfilled potential in Habitat and tended to regard it as one of those here-today , gone-tomorrow phenomena . |
| 19 | From the point of view of consumers of produce grown by slave labour the advantage was going to be equally clear ; supplies of cotton from free-labour sources had begun to enter the British market and were substantially effective in reducing prices . |
| 20 | He was there to explain to the court that he and the other officers had tried to control the Nazi leaders ' demands for gross reprisals for the deaths of the Germans in the Via Rassella . |
| 21 | Drab tips of feathers had abraded to expose the bright colours beneath : orange throat , orange chest , jet-black head , white wing bars , bold white rump patch . |
| 22 | In Mexico in the early 1980s these networks had joined to form the National Council of Popular Urban Movements , with their main demand being that every poor family had a right to a piece of land for a dwelling ( Cockroft 1983 ) . |
| 23 | In preparations for post-war construction , Resistance figures had planned to ban the continued publication of all newspapers that had collaborated and to create a press that would be economically viable as well as politically free and pluralist : there should be no repetition of the venality of journalists , the concentration of ownership , the submission to the forces of capital , of the inter-war years . |
| 24 | He and his wife Beryl discovered churchgoers had gathered to see the two plant a beech tree to celebrate the vicar 's anniversary which falls on Easter Sunday . |
| 25 | He added that the Iraqi opposition and the Iraqi Kurds had agreed to maintain the territorial integrity of Iraq . |
| 26 | If the plaintiffs had refused to pay the illegal fees for a permit to run their vehicles they would have been at risk of having their vehicles seized and their business disrupted . |
| 27 | It was only then that evil men had begun to disturb the ancient arrangements which had the stamp of Gregory 's authority . |
| 28 | It noted that the authorities had failed to investigate the six previous attempts on the life of Francisco " Chico " Mendes , the peasant union leader and ecological campaigner who was finally murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 , in the Amazonian town of Xapuri [ see p. 36459 ] . |
| 29 | The ones I spoke with believed that the authorities had failed to address the real issues . |
| 30 | It was held that the refusal was unreasonable because the employers had agreed to pay the extra travelling costs . |