Example sentences of "[num] had [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these only 2 had regained a significant amount of their lost weight . |
| 2 | A German Foreign Ministry spokesperson reported that a meeting of EC representatives in Lisbon on April 2 had approved a German proposal for a formal EC protest to the Turkish government over the recent military action against civilians [ see pp. 38833-34 ; for resignation of German Defence Minister over sale of vehicles to Turkey see p. 38822 ] . |
| 3 | Government revenues for the financial year ending in November 1991 had shown a considerable reduction compared with the previous financial year . |
| 4 | The death of their mother , Ann Wordsworth , in 1778 , when William was seven and Dorothy six had cast a long shadow over their early lives , and had left them and their three brothers effectively orphaned . |
| 5 | But in the longer perspective the events of 1963 had demonstrated a profound dialogue of the deaf between the strikers , who had chanted " Charlot , des sous ! " |
| 6 | In 1888 Fellows began buying shares in the old Grand Union and by 1904 had gained a considerable holding . |
| 7 | He took over Denham from Korda in 1938 and by 1941 had acquired a controlling interest in Oscar Deutsch 's Odeon cinema chain and the Gaumont-British set-up — both its cinemas and its filmmaking companies . |
| 8 | Of these , only three had had a continuous hospital admission lasting more than five years . |
| 9 | In Spain the struggle over the succession in 1702–13 had seen a prolonged effort by Catalonia and much of Aragon to throw off Castilian rule , an effort which drove them to support the Habsburg Archduke Charles against the eventually victorious Bourbon claimant to the throne , Philip V , grandson of Louis XIV . |
| 10 | It was reported on Feb. 2 that an emergency session of the Moldavian Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 31 had declared a six-month moratorium on " all political events which are likely to cause interethnic strife " . |
| 11 | In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 . |
| 12 | The new ethos of the '80s had had a positive effect on the character of the people , just as the ethos of the late ‘ 70s had a severely negative effect . |
| 13 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 14 | M-19 had accepted a presidential amnesty and had demobilized in March 1990 [ see p. 37311 ] . |
| 15 | Radio Zambia reported on March 20 that defectors from the MMD had formed a new party , the National Party for Democracy ( NPD ) . |
| 16 | The elections of Oct. 27 had produced a fragmented legislature , and the government of Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki had continued in a caretaker capacity . |
| 17 | Walahfrid 's " other one " who had enjoyed Alemannia before this , must be Louis the German whose marriage to Judith 's sister in 827 had created a strong axis of solidarity between this son and his father . |
| 18 | Barth was deeply suspicious of this entire concern , which he had earlier tried to combat in Gogarten , who through the 1920s had developed a strong interest in the theology of ‘ the orders of creation ’ . |
| 19 | Bush on Nov. 9 had signed a congressional resolution granting Czechoslovakia most-favoured-nation trading status . |
| 20 | In March he was summoned north by the news that the negotiations with Louis VII had reached a crucial stage . |
| 21 | He used to have a go at driving his father 's Austin Seven around the farm at an early age , and later he became seriously interested in motor racing — not least because Mike Hawthorn winning the Leinster Trophy in 1951 had made a deep impression . |
| 22 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 23 | The company was formed by Alistair Ross , who in 1986 had sold a 3i-backed poultry business to Hillsdown Holdings . |
| 24 | Forty three per cent had been investigated , often extensively , before referral , and eight had had a non-curative cholecystectomy . |
| 25 | Investigations included barium meal , barium enema , endoscopy , ultrasound scanning , intravenous urography , spinal radiology , and laparotomy before referral , and eight had had a non-curative cholecystectomy . |
| 26 | Initially the stated aim had been to promote economic and cultural co-operation , but the revolutionary developments in Eastern Europe since 1989 had added a new dimension , the grouping coming to be viewed as a vehicle for bringing emergent east European democracies into the Western fold . |
| 27 | The two had enjoyed a eight-month affair , but McAllister 's tour of duty in Ulster was ending . |
| 28 | The Workers ' Travel Association was set up to give workers the opportunity to travel ; it began in a modest way but by the 1950s had become a worldwide organization . |
| 29 | As regards the Bank 's own activities , however , the financial year July 1989 to June 1990 had seen a positive transfer to the developing countries , amounting to $3,370 million including " soft loans " made by the International Development Association ( IDA ) . |