Example sentences of "[adj] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After disaster at Dongkhe , and the horrors of the Cocxa gorge , the French fortresses at Caobang , Langson and Laokay were abandoned but , in their retreat , the French had lost 6,000 men in what has been called their greatest colonial defeat since Montcalm had died at Quebec . |
| 2 | No deals for hostages I could understand , yet the French had made future business and full diplomatic relations conditional on their hostages being freed and no more being taken . |
| 3 | Yet three years earlier , at the important siege of nearby Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte , the French had used thirty-two cannons , gunstones for them having been conveyed there in carts and by packhorse . |
| 4 | Japan 's Constitution , drawn up under United States auspices after the Second World War , had limited the country 's military activities to self-defence , in recognition of the Japanese aggression in the region during the 1930s and 1940s , and the possibility of changing this had caused considerable consternation among various South and East Asian countries . |
| 5 | To coincide with the launch of the Constitution , the government lifted the state of siege , imposed in 1984 in response to the violent activity of drug traffickers , right-wing paramilitary groups and left-wing guerrillas ; this had curtailed civil liberties and had given extraordinary power to the President to re-establish public order . |
| 6 | This had aroused international interest from such countries as Argentina , Zimbabwe and Australia . |
| 7 | This had aroused considerable interest . |
| 8 | This had asserted American interest in the Middle East and had given pledges of support to those states which felt threatened by communism . |
| 9 | None of this had escaped French notice , and some of the heaviest mortars they could muster had been brought up ; resulting in the burying alive of many of the Bavarians underneath their Stollen . |
| 10 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 11 | This had provoked Democratic infighting in the Senate . |
| 12 | If this had given eighteen times it then you would have started off with one eighteenth . |
| 13 | This had led some observers , notably Robertson , Briggs and Goodchild ( 1982 ) , to cast doubt upon the idea of a simple linear progression through the sectors . |
| 14 | This had continued all night . |
| 15 | This had allowed one end of the pin to disengage from the buckle backplate , thus allowing the clamping lever to displace , effectively unfastening the belt . |
| 16 | This had started this morning before erm Rosie and Jim . |
| 17 | This had happened thirty years previously . |
| 18 | Supposing all this had happened three months from now . " |
| 19 | of USA stated that he was licensed in embalming in Ohio , and this had required two years in an academic college and one year 's mortuary service . |
| 20 | Indeed British reservations began to surface only after the Soviet nuclear test in the late summer of 1949 ( this had occurred some years earlier than expected ) , and when the scale of the American build-up in Britain became apparent . |
| 21 | Oh ye er this had got educational video on the thing |
| 22 | This had forced general managers of the second wave into the reactive mould characteristic of their predecessors in the first wave . |
| 23 | This had found partial expression as early as 1589 when the government had persuaded Constantinople to raise the Metropolitan of Moscow to patriarchal status in order to strengthen Orthodoxy 's defences . |
| 24 | As far as their training and qualifications were concerned , one-third had no qualifications at all and less than half had obtained basic school qualifications . |
| 25 | In the case-studies of 15 boards it was clear that half had made significant progress . |
| 26 | Almost half had used some training units , but from our observations it was clear that the guidelines for use were rarely followed closely . |
| 27 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 28 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 29 | During the first summer and autumn on the island , the English had built another sloop — thirty tons , clinker-hulled , two masted — from felled mahogany trees they dragged down from the forest ; they then fitted her with four barbaresque guns forged in the Italian style , transported from Europe by the Hopewell . |
| 30 | Moreover , the British had lost 6,097 sailors to Germany 's 2,545 . |