Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June 1940 the land of Louis XIV and Napoleon had experienced swift defeat at the hands of Germany . |
| 2 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
| 3 | It should also be remembered that , until legislation was introduced which prohibited the use of most lead fishing weights , the number of swans dying from lead poisoning had reached critical proportions . |
| 4 | In the face of such concerted action it was clear that the Library Association had to take strong action on behalf of its members who , individually , could have little chance of opposing the ban . |
| 5 | In each case , the association had commissioned structural surveys , followed by feasibility and market studies . |
| 6 | In such cases they implied that every Ujdaid or every Amiri had had combatant status . |
| 7 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 8 | Arens said that the US side had indicated continuing support for the joint US-Israeli development of the Arrow surface-to-air missile programme , which involved the US company Lockheed , and on which the USA was underwriting 80 per cent of the costs . |
| 9 | Preliminary assessments suggested that Kuwait had suffered catastrophic damage to its infrastructure during the Gulf conflict . |
| 10 | Since the outbreak of the Gulf war in 1980 , he stated , Kuwait had stolen vast amounts of oil from the southern section of the Rumalla oilfield . |
| 11 | Resentment at press-gang methods had caused sporadic revolts in rural Java , though the full extent of this horror was not yet known . |
| 12 | At the same time the duchy administration had provided new recruits for Edward 's service . |
| 13 | At the same time the duchy administration had provided new recruits for Edward 's service . |
| 14 | Investigator Ken Randall found Gooda Walker had made unorthodox use of ‘ time and distance ’ insurance policies , which led to a possible £10 million overstatement of profits for 1988 on one syndicate , 290 . |
| 15 | Three farms in Powys had bought extra acres to accommodate sons now on the farm . |
| 16 | In the 1980s many Latin American NICs had to reschedule external debts and implement austerity budgets ( cuts in public services ) to improve their economic situations . |
| 17 | The news is embarrassing for Mr Lang , who ten days ago told an Edinburgh audience that inward investment had provided huge opportunities for local sub-contractors . |
| 18 | The violence had placed severe strains on the ANC 's relationship with the government over the issue of perceived police partiality towards Inkatha supporters , and had delayed the holding of negotiations on a post-apartheid constitution . |
| 19 | However , whilst there is no need to take account of the attributes of a particular contracting partner , if a business contracts with people of a particular class , the steps must be reasonably sufficient to bring the terms to the notice of a member of that class — in Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 , terms on a steamer ticket for carriage in steerage class were not incorporated into a contract because the defendant had taken insufficient steps to bring them to the notice of steerage class passengers . |
| 20 | The outcome of the vote had been determined partly by reports that Pakistan had sought ballistic missile technology from China . |
| 21 | By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture . |
| 22 | Women 's organizations , although disappointed at the outcome , took heart that the episode had placed sexual harassment in the workplace firmly on the political agenda and had increased prospects for legislation to attack this . |
| 23 | Demonstrators reacted violently to the news that two NDP candidates had won local seats , and attempted to burn down a police station ; four supporters of independent candidates were killed , and some 60 civilians and seven policemen injured . |
| 24 | The selective use of vous and tu forms in dialogues involving different characters suggests that the French translator had to make conscious decisions about the nature of the relationships among different characters in the story and about the social standing of these characters as reflected in their adoption of certain conventions to do with approved/non-approved expression of familiarity and/or deference . |
| 25 | Flaherty and MacKnobb had produced thin gold and silver and emerald paint with which they had coloured the fine charcoal designs and the end result was really rather good . |
| 26 | She was taking a gamble , already Hari had spent precious time and materials making footwear that might never be bought and paid for . |
| 27 | Where previous designs had riveted aluminium-alloy plates for the structure and gas turbine engines , the AP1-88 employs marine construction methods and diesel power . |
| 28 | Hill had accused Supreme Court aspirant Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment years earlier , and feminists were outraged when the court rebuffed her claims . |
| 29 | The armed forces joint command announced on Dec. 12 that army units had inflicted heavy casualties on guerrilla forces in the previous 48 hours in the Huallaga valley , about 500 km north of the capital , Lima , and that about 100 Sendero activists had surrendered . |
| 30 | The government-controlled Working People 's Daily reported on Jan. 29 , 1990 , that police and Army units had seized illegal drugs worth US$14,000,000 in 1989 . |