Example sentences of "[num] had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1991 had benefited from a temporary lag in the fall of product prices compared with feedstock costs , in the period immediately following the Gulf crisis . |
| 2 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
| 3 | The three had travelled to the Russian capital to watch their team play Spartak Moscow in the European Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 4 | Within a few weeks of setting eyes on Judith he had managed to supersede Zacharias in her affections , and the three had dwindled to a blissful two . |
| 5 | This is revealed in the latest figures from Barclays Bank , which said that sterling 's 15 per cent devaluation and the 4 per cent fall in interest rates following the UK 's withdrawal from the exchange rate mechanism in September 1992 had led to a sharp increase in business confidence in manufacturing in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 6 | Of these , 25 chose to take no part in the farm work , 2 were over 70 years of age , 4 had died in the past five years , and 3 farmers were unmarried . |
| 7 | By the time these results had been achieved , World War 11 had passed from the uneasy calm of its first winter into the violence of the European devastation of 1940 . |
| 8 | In two important maize-growing areas , fewer than half of those interviewed had heard of the increased price , and in an area where the Government was keen to encourage a substantial increase in local production , less than one in ten had heard of the new prices . |
| 9 | By 1701 the young Tsar Peter I had added to the resident representative in Warsaw others in The Hague , Copenhagen , Vienna and Constantinople . |
| 10 | The SNS chairman Vitazoslav Moric , who on Oct. 25 had called for a civil disobedience campaign against the language law , was in consequence recalled from the Federal Assembly Presidium by the deputies on Nov. 26 . |
| 11 | The great flood tides of spring 1402 had swept over the low lying marshes of the estuary and forced a passage to join the Broad with the sea . |
| 12 | Most notable among the vanquished is Bath , supposedly a team of all the talents , but clearly relying more than one had supposed upon the inventive wit of Stuart Barnes . |
| 13 | The year 1987 had arrived on a high note , but possibly a dangerous one . |
| 14 | The federal Cabinet announced and sworn in on June 27 contained only 16 members , of whom nine had served in the outgoing government . |
| 15 | 281 had added to the protected class a case in which vulnerable elderly parents had agreed to provide security for the debts of their adult son . |
| 16 | Her tables show that 16 per cent of the households containing a married couple with a partner aged 65–74 in 1971 and 23.5 per cent of married couple households with a partner aged 75 and over in 1971 had dissolved to a lone person household by 1981 . |
| 17 | In January 1990 the Senior Minister of Finance , Carl Greenidge , stated that the loss of earnings resulting from the strikes in the bauxite and sugar industries in April and May 1989 had contributed to an additional $20,000,000 in arrears , as yet not covered by pledges from the support group . |
| 18 | In the late 1520s and 1530s , Henry VIII had embarked on a spectacular , even murderous matrimonial career in an attempt to save his kingdom from the first part of that curse . |
| 19 | Heavy spending by the UNP government prior to the presidential elections in December 1988 had contributed to the unsustainable rise in public spending with an accompanying increase in the budget deficit , in defiance of the agreements reached with the IMF . |
| 20 | Hundreds of thousands had died in the post-war 'flu epidemic , so anyone who caught it — especially children — was bundled off to bed , as Clare was , with a hot water bottle , some aspirin , and a glass of hot milk with an eggspoonful of whisky in it . |
| 21 | This had ominous implications for a party whose political strength in the 1980s had rested to a large extent on its competence in managing economic prosperity . |