Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 2 | The Yenan Koreans had formed a separate party , the New Democratic Party . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Richard and his brothers had attended a great court held by Louis VII at Paris in the spring of 1173 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The brothers had purchased a beautiful metal casket as a sign of their love for their mother . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | The judges took only 80 minutes to decide the level of fines after ruling the journalists had breached the strict provisions of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act . |
| 14 | Arenas had remained a hard-line Stalinist who opposed the political reforms under way in the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was widespread acknowledgement that the absence of the Unionist parties had created a partial vacuum . |
| 17 | It was held there that the parties had made a binding contract , albeit with the price still outstanding . |
| 18 | They indicated that both of the main political parties had reached a similar conclusion . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | For various reasons the specific item search , into which the designers had put a good deal of effort , was less successful . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | No one in the cars had seen the tottering figure further down the road . |
| 28 | Since the UndergrounD Group took over , the Company 's cars had carried the statutory lettering at the bottom of the rocker panel , but had displayed no badge or fleet name . |
| 29 | Faithful readers will recall that , despite being bottom of the Banks Group Northern Youth League , the lads had played the entire season without a booking or sending off until the catastrophic 82nd minute of the final game . |
| 30 | Eleanor 's eyes had gone completely empty , as if Julius 's blunt words had knocked every little bit of life out of her . |