Example sentences of "[num] he [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1881 he had built the first fully automatic milling plant at Chester and from that time , mechanically powered roller-milling rapidly supplanted stone-milling in the mass production of flour . |
| 2 | In 1338 he had issued the so-called ‘ Walton Ordinances ’ to help make the raising of supplies more efficient . |
| 3 | At Bayeux in 1946 he had quoted the ancient Greek lawmaker Solon , who was asked to name the best constitution and replied : " Tell me first for which people and in which era . " |
| 4 | In a well received speech on June 21 he had accused the current CPSU leadership of " ideological confusion " and of allowing radicals to wage " an organized campaign to destroy the party from within " . |
| 5 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 6 | Salisbury did not share half the views held by those who accepted his lead , but he was a focus for the increasing Unionist discontent , a respectable public figure acting from the highest motives ; by 1921 he had made the diehard opposition a formidable force . |
| 7 | Knowing Louis 's concern for the Holy Land in 1147 he had led the French army on the Second Crusade — he put it about that all he really wanted to do was put his own house in order , make proper provision for his children , and then he would be off on crusade in his lord 's company . |
| 8 | On Sept. 16 he had signed the 1975 Helsinki Final Act [ see pp. 27301-09 ] in Helsinki . |
| 9 | At a dinner to celebrate his 25 years , said of that he was an example to everybody in terms of hard work and leadership and recalled how in the snow of 1982 he had walked the five miles from his home and Playford to be at his desk at the normal time . |
| 10 | In 1947 he had formed the English Opera Group , which performed his works . |
| 11 | Although Duke had dismissed his past association with the racist Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups as a " youthful indiscretion " , as recently as 1988 he had contested the presidential elections as the nominee of the Populist Party — a known repository of neo-Nazis and former Klansmen — on an openly racist and anti-Semitic platform . |
| 12 | In July 1944 he had told the American government and in December 1944 the Soviet government that the left bank of the Rhine ought to be detached from the rest of Germany and placed under French authority , while the Ruhr 's industrial resources should be controlled by an international authority . |