Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 2 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |
| 3 | One afternoon in late October we heard on a local radio station that someone , claiming to speak for Islamic Jihad , had phoned to announce that two Americans would be executed . |
| 4 | Classical elite theorists had sought to show that liberal democracy was a utopian ideal incapable of realization . |
| 5 | Very late in the day they had written to say that some arrangement had fallen through and they would be prepared to play us if they could find sufficient members interested in taking part . |
| 6 | Playing the fringes of the metropolis , Lily had used to hope that one day , looking up on the prompt side , she would see one of George Edwardes 's scouts . |
| 7 | If Parliament had meant to say that any distribution or publication should suffice , it could very easily have said so ; the courts are bound to make sense of the words that Parliament has in fact used . |
| 8 | ‘ A few years ago , many thoughtful men , in no way given to utopian ideas , had begun to hope that Western Europe would never again be the scene of the awful horrors of war . |