Example sentences of "had [verb] that [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pro-democracy campaigners had claimed that many eligible voters did not bother to register in 1987 prior to the 1988 one-party elections . |
| 2 | To avoid the problems encountered with ICI , NIREX had ensured that all these sites were in sympathetic ownership . |
| 3 | Although the invitation was surprisingly withdrawn the following day , Sweden had ensured that some free trade momentum would be maintained . |
| 4 | In immediate response to Conaie , the Minister Secretary-General of the Administration , José Vicente Maldonado , had said that all illegal strikes would be suppressed . |
| 5 | The government had said that more nuclear power stations should be built for strategic reasons , whatever the economics , Davis argued . |
| 6 | In the tense silence which followed this remark , all eyes now turned upon the couple who had been fetched from their bedroom ; the couple who had decided that any further diet of delightful architecture would have amounted to a sort of cultural force-feeding . |
| 7 | In his famous Zürich speech , for example , he had argued that these two states ‘ must take the lead together ’ . |
| 8 | Penrose 's theorem had shown that any collapsing star must end in a singularity ; the time-reversed argument showed that any Friedmann-like expanding universe must have begun with a singularity . |
| 9 | Through the IMG Ali had noted that many Trotskyist women had gone into the National Joint Action Committee for Women 's Equal Rights ( NJACWER ) . |
| 10 | If you had known that that particular swim faced due west you may well have chosen another . |
| 11 | Of course , she had known that more unofficial arrangements were common enough in England . |
| 12 | The sales force had found that many potential customers were using the sales objection of ‘ Is this the machine that you can not provide parts for ? ’ |
| 13 | Then , fourteen years later , after it had seemed that this strange fish had appeared only to disappear totally , another was caught , not off South Africa but a thousand miles away in Anjouan , one of the tiny Comoro Islands that lie in the Indian Ocean midway between Madagascar and the coast of Tanzania . |
| 14 | After the shooting , the IRA had acknowledged that all three men were members of its mid-Ulster brigade and had been killed on ‘ active service ’ . |
| 15 | On Jan. 19 the government had announced that all legal parties would be submitted to certain restrictions , binding them to give prior notice to the municipal authorities of any meeting , demonstration or public gathering , along with details of the organizers . |
| 16 | On July 31 Aquino had announced that former First Lady Imelda Marcos and her children would be permitted to return to the Philippines in order to stand trial on outstanding corruption charges , but that the corpse of the former President would remain banned . |
| 17 | United States trade associations such as CBEMA ( hardware ) and ADAPSO ( software ) and others had worried that some foreign nations might impose usage-related charges on data transmission ; West Germany was suspect in this regard . |
| 18 | They had hoped that this little habit had died down . |
| 19 | ‘ Not only did we have to show that economically our project needed a reasonable gas price , but we also had to demonstrate that this new policy did not result in huge changes in Pakistan 's domestic consumer price . ’ |
| 20 | Time was , he remembered , when she had attended the Greek Orthodox Church , where he also had gone when small , but its splendour had palled when she had realized that more fashionable people belonged to the United Church . |
| 21 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 22 | He had to admit that this particular client hardly added to the general decorative smartness of the place . |
| 23 | Donegal post office had a ‘ suggestions ’ service , and I had suggested that all Irish pillar boxes be repainted red once more , instead of bureaucratic green . |
| 24 | Councillors had ordered that all coal-laden rail wagons leaving Gladstone Dock in Bootle be fully covered and washed down . |
| 25 | Whereas in the past Catholic teaching had implied that all such matters should be left to God , however large a family one already had , the Council affirmed that ‘ parents themselves should ultimately make the judgement ’ ( Gaudium et Spes 50 ) as to whether or not they should have further children . |
| 26 | But there were also cases which held that the applicant for mandamus had to show that some legal right of his or hers had been infringed by the challenged decision . |