Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , therefore , the King had turned to Henderson after MacDonald had proffered his resignation , or had sought the views of Labour Privy Counsellors as suggested by Herbert Morrison , he could have been accused of wasting valuable time . |
| 2 | Although the proceedings reinforced Castro 's dominance of the PCC , some decisions ratified by the congress , in particular accepting direct election of all delegates to the National Assembly of People 's Powers , were interpreted as signs that he had either made tactical concessions or had recognized the need for gradual change . |
| 3 | He emphatically denied that he had acted improperly or had manipulated the system to his advantage . |
| 4 | Once , there must have been a single core-vessel which had lost its way or had lost the use of its warp-vanes so that it could no longer jump back into truespace . |
| 5 | In 1881 , the leader of the Blue Ribbon Mission came to town and it was estimated that a quarter of the 32,000 population were ‘ blue-ribboners ’ , or had taken the pledge . |
| 6 | It appeared from the poor showing of the pro-CPSU communists in the elections that a surprisingly large number of Russians had voted for Sajudis-backed candidates , or had boycotted the voting in overwhelmingly Russian-populated constituencies where only a pro-CPSU communist was standing . |
| 7 | No pupils refused to participate in the study , and as pupils were not warned about the administration of the survey we assumed that those registered pupils who did not complete the survey were either absent or had left the school . |
| 8 | Under the amended election law the president was provided with the power to appoint new deputies to replace those who had died or had left the Assembly since the last elections in 1972 . |
| 9 | As of July 1991 over 80 Assembly members , mostly from the NLD , had died , been imprisoned or had fled the country . |
| 10 | Foreign aid is so important in conservation policy-making in lesser developed countries because , with a few exceptions , most newly independent lesser developed countries had either no official conservation organisation whatsoever ( as in Latin America with the exception of a couple of Southern Brazilian states ) or had experienced the colonial model mentioned above , principally in Africa , South and South-east Asia . |
| 11 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 12 | The long battle that followed matched the political and philosophical situation of the time . |
| 13 | And the , the animal life that was destroyed there , in fact that amazing picture of the oil slick that looked liked the sea , remember it |
| 14 | Sussex University was born , with more glitter and publicity than had attended the more earnest first days of Keele , and with a declared mission to redraw the map of knowledge , to challenge the hegemony of the traditional subject , to celebrate a new scientific culture . |
| 15 | Sixteen teachers commented on this absurd situation , six more than had mentioned the social context of the previous question . |
| 16 | The report referred to " the failure , negligence , complacency and indifference noted on all levels of the services that had planned the visit [ Boudiaf 's visit to Annaba ] , organized its schedule and guaranteed the security of the President " . |
| 17 | Rain and rivers eroded the soft sandstones that had filled the lagoon basin , scouring them away so that today the reefs are exposed once more , high and dry , facing not the sea but desert covered with clumps of spinifex grass and stunted mulga trees . |
| 18 | Alison was up the steps and away , lost in the press of people that had filled the bar since they 'd come in . |
| 19 | By the nineteenth century , however , and especially in the life sciences , the metaphysics that had underpinned the work of Copernicus , Kepler , and Newton had become obstructive . |
| 20 | This showed that he had not only been in the Catalina that had sighted the Bismarck but was actually piloting it and had taken avoiding action when the Bismarck opened fire . |
| 21 | The other officer was Gerhard Junack of the Bismarck 's engineering staff , who helped dispel a myth which had gained some credence in the Royal Navy that it was British torpedoes and shells exclusively that had sent the allegedly unsinkable Bismarck to the bottom . |
| 22 | In 1990 Indiana passed a law that obliged transporters to certify that their rubbish included no medical or hazardous waste , and charged them tipping fees equal to those at the landfill nearest the place that had sent the rubbish . |
| 23 | Yasushi Mieno , the bank 's governor , raised interest rates to stem the wave of speculative spending that had sent the price of shares and property soaring in the late-1980s . |
| 24 | In this ‘ Leninist ’ , as he was dubbed , still shone that naïve peasant trust in the very highest authority that had kept the Romanovs secure for so long . |
| 25 | He pulled up , climbed out , and removed the plastic cone that had kept the space free . |
| 26 | Forces that had kept the size of Fleet Street under continuous pressure for more than 25 years were broken . |
| 27 | Twenty-five minutes later they saw the high blue-concreted wall on the right , the barrier that had kept the secrets of the Red Army from the citizens of Dresden . |
| 28 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 29 | With that instinct for survival that had kept the Member for Arden in Parliament for so long , Grunte had sold him the car at a nil rate of interest . |
| 30 | They sold off the mine 's equipment , including the water pumps that had kept the 1,500 foot shafts dry . |