Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Yenan Koreans had formed a separate party , the New Democratic Party . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Richard and his brothers had attended a great court held by Louis VII at Paris in the spring of 1173 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The brothers had purchased a beautiful metal casket as a sign of their love for their mother . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Fakrid 's eyes had turned a livid yellow . |
| 9 | The eyes had become a jet-black bar that flamed . |
| 10 | His eyes had acquired a thoughtful gleam that made Polly 's heart lurch erratically . |
| 11 | Arenas had remained a hard-line Stalinist who opposed the political reforms under way in the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | There was widespread acknowledgement that the absence of the Unionist parties had created a partial vacuum . |
| 13 | It was held there that the parties had made a binding contract , albeit with the price still outstanding . |
| 14 | They indicated that both of the main political parties had reached a similar conclusion . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Lifestyles remained simple but identification with the masses was impossible if kids had to get a decent education . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For various reasons the specific item search , into which the designers had put a good deal of effort , was less successful . |
| 21 | The pomeshchiks had become a substantial body and provided the military backbone of the State . |
| 22 | Marcel and Patterson ( 1978 ) presented one word , followed by a pattern mask ( see Chapter 4 ) such that the word could not be identified , and the mask was followed by a letter string about which subjects had to make a lexical decision . |
| 23 | Slowly he removed his mouth , closing her fingers over the spot where his lips had left a burning imprint , a brand on her flesh . |
| 24 | Because his lips had opened a brand-new world up to her ? |
| 25 | The 27-year-old surveyor who had befriended Joanna at fitness training sessions had endured a two-day nightmare in which he was the police 's prime suspect in her disappearance . |
| 26 | Already , in expectation , the four archbishops had produced a pastoral letter in which they condemned the legalizing of divorce on the grounds of the preservation of ‘ the common good ’ and because they feared the tendency that people had to accept as right that which was legally permissible ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1985 ) . |
| 27 | Eventually the local authority reversed its decision after two parents had instituted a judicial review in the High Court . |
| 28 | Deborah 's parents had had a tumultuous relationship in which frequent violent arguments would be followed by tender love scenes . |
| 29 | Apart from the fact that the McCarthy purges of alleged Communists had left a bad scar on the film industry , two other developments were eventually to bear much of the blame for the demise of the glitterama of old Hollywood . |
| 30 | In September 1989 the Bahrain-based Gulf International Bank reported that the combined external debt of Arab countries had reached a record high of US$140,000 million ( from US$68,000 million in 1982 ) . |