Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly " form " even in its most denuded days had a necessary content for design . |
| 2 | The accord 's most controversial element had been its attempt to induce Quebec to sign the 1982 federal Constitution in return for the recognition of the predominantly French-speaking province as a " distinct society " . |
| 3 | The jokes between her father , mother and older brother had been adult , almost risqué ; she had been allowed several glasses of champagne without a reproachful look , and her rather revealing décolletage had passed without comment . |
| 4 | The elections to a new 205-member House of Representatives resulted in a victory for the Nepali Congress , which formed a new government in late May , and marked the final stage of a 15-month democratization process which had resulted in the destruction of the old panchayat system , under which political parties had been banned and most political power had rested in the hands of the monarch , King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva [ see p. 37856 for chronology of events leading to the adoption of a new constitution in November 1990 ] . |
| 5 | What had started as an unimportant if rather shameful seduction had become something altogether more painful . |
| 6 | About 70 million years ago the brain of the most advanced animals had cerebral hemispheres , but they composed a third or less of the whole brain . |
| 7 | Their most striking success had been the gradual acquisition of the Touraine , inch by inch , castle by castle , at the expense of their eastern neighbours , the Counts of Blois . |
| 8 | A most respectable party had taken the dining room but the landlord was either too flustered or too gauche to respect the privacy which , judging from their first expressions on seeing Hope , they felt they had ordered and even paid for . |
| 9 | Nothing went smoothly , even when it appeared that the most minute details had been described with no further room for misunderstanding . |
| 10 | That summer was the most exciting Sally had ever known . |
| 11 | The most popular herbs had many uses : tansy for example , was used in cooking , as a tonic , as a soothing lotion and as an insect repellent . |
| 12 | When Oscar pressed the switch half way a lamp like a huge searchlight came on , so strong Horowitz had to dip his head . |
| 13 | That 's right , that 's what you said in in you saying that populations were going , growing geometrically agricultural production was going arithmetically , as a result a population crash is inevitable , alright , but we know that is n't true right , because what , when Marthus was writing , erm , Marthus was writing just before in the agricultural revolution in the U K so agricultural technology had n't improved very much in sort of five hundred years right , but in the next hundred years agricultural production , erm , or productivity grows far faster than erm , than population . |
| 14 | Mendel 's answer is no , for not only economic resources had to change through modernisation , but also the traditional political regime had to be replaced by urban classes used by commercial and bourgeois interests the main beneficiaries of change . |
| 15 | Suddenly loud music had blared over the Tannoy . |
| 16 | Changes had also been necessary in quality control procedures and audit methods , and less extensive changes had been needed in practice management and staff training . |
| 17 | Venus has no satellite and so this less direct method had to be used . |
| 18 | Between the wars , there was little change but county club finances were often sorely stretched and some of the less popular counties had to rely on local patrons for help . |
| 19 | Maybe the extreme and somewhat specialized experiment had been abandoned ? |
| 20 | Last year , the show , which featured 150 aircraft , was so popular police had to turn people away . |
| 21 | But progress against stubborn German resistance in thickly forested terrain had also been slow ; and when Vlasov arrived to take personal command 2nd Shock Army was itself surrounded by a German counter-attack . |
| 22 | Furthermore social surveys had shown that early marriage , by unskilled workers could lead to poverty and destitution . |
| 23 | Presumably the regret that Flaubert was n't more involved in life is n't just a philanthropic wish for him : if only old Gustave had had a wife and kiddies , he would n't have been so glum about the whole shooting-match ? |
| 24 | By the middle of the 1970s a markedly different , and , according to some observers at least , much improved congress had come into being . |
| 25 | Over 1,300 litres of highly alcoholic brew had been seized from one wing alone , in nine months . |
| 26 | I was shattered , but how could I defend myself by explaining that his hitherto unsuspected mistress had just rung me up to spill the beans ? ’ |
| 27 | So 28-year-old Neil had them removed and now has a false set after losing the rest while playing sport . |
| 28 | A dozen or so extra men had made their appearance in Sir Walter Raleigh Park , with wives and children who now assisted with the preparations . |
| 29 | The move was regarded as significant in Japan because verbal harassment of women was known to be particularly widespread , but previously only actual assaults had been legally construed as comprising acts of harassment . |
| 30 | Thus , the Trinovantes , with their tribal centre at Camulodunon and their neighbours to the west nucleated at Verulamion and Braughing , appear to be recent arrivals to Britain , and more or less contemporary movements had brought others into north and eastern Kent from the Seine Valley . |