Example sentences of "[adj] had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point of contact between British and French colonies was still on the seacoast , and here the British regular forces and the colonial militia co-operated effectively and captured the fortress of Louisbourg , which the French had fortified at immense cost to command the entrance to the St. Lawrence and hold back the British in Nova Scotia . |
| 2 | But by the ninth century this had degenerated into gross confusion , under cover of which the worship of Baal-Melqart , the official god of Tyre , had crept in and was widely corrupting faith in God . |
| 3 | The introduction of detailed measurement and the systematic logging of failures has raised everyone 's awareness of our OTIF performance and this had led to increased cooperation and feedback between all departments . |
| 4 | This had led to uneven and sometimes inappropriate collections of resources . |
| 5 | In several instances this had led to joint certification agreements by which SCOTVEC and the body concerned award certificates jointly . |
| 6 | Obviously this had led to considerable controversy between Marxists and non-Marxists as to whether Marx had fully understood capitalism and whether or not subsequent developments have invalidated his account of its structure of power . |
| 7 | In the UK this had led to high unemployment and the overall decline in manufacturing that marked ‘ deindustrialization ’ in the early 1980s . |
| 8 | This had resulted in auxiliary nurses being left in many cases to carry the workload virtually on their own , with trainee nurses not able or qualified to do the work , due to no fault of their own . |
| 9 | True since the early 1960s the British had gathered in wet fields to hear jazz , and rock and the movie Jazz : On A Summer 's Day with its tantalizing performance by Chuck Berry helped break the hold of cool on popular music . |
| 10 | In three weeks , the British had re-evoked past imperial triumphs over inadequate opposition . |
| 11 | However , a few had met with negative attitudes in the process . |
| 12 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 13 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 14 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 15 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 16 | Some had called for public acceptance that homosexuals and drug users were the only people facing a real risk of getting AIDS . |
| 17 | A report in September 1989 by a parliamentary committee asserted that 5,877 people had disappeared in political circumstances in the past nine years and that another 2,346 had died in unexplained circumstances . |
| 18 | A strongly worded White House statement on March 7 had appealed for international support in stopping the operation of the Rabta plant . |
| 19 | Families cherished their forbears , whether these had lived in humble cottages or in manor houses . |
| 20 | By 5th November , 1856 , 1,050 applications had been received ; g by 5th December , 1,628 sets of conditions had been despatched ; and two months later , four months after the start of the competition , Hall told the House of Commons that 1,791 had been despatched , of which at least 270 had gone to foreign competitors . |
| 21 | Most of the firms affected were open for business on Monday morning ; all had moved into temporary accommodation by mid-week . |
| 22 | Some were girls like Anne , former shop workers or clerks , and many had worked in other factories . |
| 23 | The president went on to ask how many had forgotten about African musical instruments and the kind of excitement which came from performing music and dance that was truly indigenous . |
| 24 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 25 | In an attempt to force the issue the respective republican parliaments on Nov. 17 had passed by large majorities similarly worded resolutions authorizing the split and declaring that they would " assume full responsibility for the continuity of state power " on the territory of their republics after Jan. 1 . |
| 26 | As early as 1909 , British and Colonial had brought over American directors and stars for its films . |
| 27 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 28 | The previous month a British television programme had alleged that Goodman International had indulged in widespread abuse of the EC subsidy system for beef exports . |
| 29 | In addition , about 300,000 eastern German workers were commuting to jobs in western Germany , and 108,000 had emigrated to western Germany in the first five months of 1991 — most of them younger , skilled workers [ see also pp. 37761 ; 38109 ; 38354 ] . |
| 30 | His own break with Rome in the 1530s had led to strenuous efforts to persuade his nephew James V to do likewise , and to desert France for England . |