Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [adj] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported on Feb. 6 that a presidential decree of Jan. 29 had set up the Atomic Energy Ministry ( Minatom ) of the Russian Federation . |
| 2 | The general strike of May 1977 had lasted practically a fortnight . |
| 3 | When , in August 1920 , the threat of British military intervention against Soviet troops advancing into Poland , triggered a massive upsurge of anti-war sentiment , it seemed that a new wave of revolutionary pacifism might erupt , taking up where the crisis of January 1918 had left off . |
| 4 | The following table shows where a sample of school-leavers who had either been on a government Youth Opportunities Scheme ( YOPS ) or been unemployed for six weeks by the beginning of October 1978 had ended up by April 1979 . |
| 5 | Health workers , ignoring government threats of dismissal , went on strike for higher pay , thereby complicating the fight against a cholera epidemic which by the end of April 1991 had claimed over 1,200 victims [ see p. 38002 ] . |