Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 2 | However , many things had happened during the two years since she had been told that her mother had died of the fever and that , prior to this , she had not been allowed to see her in case she should catch it and spread it further . |
| 3 | The pipes had frozen during the severe weather , and the inhabitants of the street had to use a standing tap for their water : as a result , Eliot used to wash and shave at his club . |
| 4 | The authorities had claimed during the previous month that the courts had " basically completed " all trials connected with the 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 5 | It estimated that 100,000-120,000 Iraqi troops had been killed , as well as 5,000-15,000 civilians , and that 2,000-5,000 Kuwaitis had died during the Iraqi occupation and in the war itself . |
| 6 | The women appear rather to get a share of the compensation for the " " il fit " " , the " unpleasant trick " ( 4184 ) that the clerks had suffered during the preceding day . |
| 7 | Its case for wholesale economic , social and political restructuring of the United Kingdom included arguing against the substantial power that the unions had obtained during the corporatist decades of the postwar period , especially within the monopoly nationalized industries . |