Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 2 | Partnerships had enabled the use of community schools at Liphook and Bordon to be run so as to offer their facilities to the public throughout the year , and the new methods had reduced the inevitable deficit of the sports centre to well below the national average . |
| 3 | She muttered incoherently but the sound was happy , and her eyes had lost the terrible haunted stare of madness . |
| 4 | A thousand eyes had watched the brief altercation , and now the whispers began in earnest . |
| 5 | The judges took only 80 minutes to decide the level of fines after ruling the journalists had breached the strict provisions of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act . |
| 6 | As already stated , the clergy had sustained the catholic — nationalist populace over centuries of oppression . |
| 7 | In October of that year the AR regretted that nearly all competition entries had evaded the key problem and had signally failed ‘ to achieve the genuine pub atmosphere ’ . |
| 8 | No one in the cars had seen the tottering figure further down the road . |
| 9 | Since the UndergrounD Group took over , the Company 's cars had carried the statutory lettering at the bottom of the rocker panel , but had displayed no badge or fleet name . |
| 10 | Faithful readers will recall that , despite being bottom of the Banks Group Northern Youth League , the lads had played the entire season without a booking or sending off until the catastrophic 82nd minute of the final game . |
| 11 | With the words had come the fleeting impression of dark , sinuous creatures who could slither out of the shadows and wind their cold , serpentine fingers about you , so that you were trapped , who could twine about your entire body , so that you were smothered and suffocating from the cold embrace … |
| 12 | What the blustering and bullying of Henry VIII had failed to do in the 1540s , the gentler approach of Henri II had now achieved triumphantly ; the Scots had given the French king what they had refused to the English one , control of their queen and , it seemed , control of their country . |
| 13 | The German grain-growers had felt the transatlantic threat , but also wished to protect themselves against Russian grain , cheaply produced and easily distributed by rail . |
| 14 | RSPCA inspectors had combatted the vicious ‘ sport ’ of dog fighting in the region with 14 convictions compared to five in 1990 . |
| 15 | Commenting upon their total experience of Minor award schools , DCSLs also noted that a few schools had misconstrued the long-term intentions of the project and had cut library capitation in years following external funding . |
| 16 | The Communists had abandoned the Leftwing Movement in 1929 and it had immediately collapsed . |
| 17 | In the spring of 1915 Prime Minister Asquith declared to the House of Commons that the continued enlistment of British sailors , the internment of enemy aliens and the recall of allied seamen to their own countries had reduced the maritime labour force to 85 per cent of its pre-war strength . |
| 18 | carried out an experiment in which four- , eight- , and twelve-year-olds were asked to indicate which member of a pair of blocks had made the other block move . |
| 19 | like vapour trails had scarfed the distant stars |
| 20 | The secretive greed of the bankers had replaced the open belligerence of the aristocrats as the main threat to peace . |
| 21 | An official at Retix said , ‘ if these companies had taken the entire product , the industry would have seen transaction processing interoperability a lot earlier . ’ |
| 22 | Long ago , when men were still fighting with clubs and wicker shields , the High Elves had mastered the proud , powerful horses of Ulthuan and learned how to employ them as steeds . |
| 23 | If permission were given after an application to the planning committee , the monument would be erected east of the Nelson monument above the former Royal High School building , which would have housed a Scottish parliament if the Conservatives had lost the general election last April . |
| 24 | In 1972 , at the time of the Saltley flying pickets mobilized by the young Scargill , the miners had held the upper hand ; not so this time around . |
| 25 | To save on personnel and consequently to minimize undesirable social contact , the original Metropolitan Commissioners had submitted the personal qualities of ‘ forbearance ’ and ‘ calm demeanour ’ as the major responses to the threat , as the inhibiters of opposition , and as a substitute for colleague support . |
| 26 | Their alchemists were experimenting with gunpowder , their engineers had grasped the basic principles of steam propulsion . |
| 27 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 28 | Frogmen had dragged the local river . |
| 29 | The universities had taken the opposite view . |
| 30 | For its part , AGF claims to be content with its 25% stake , though observers had assumed the French insurer would try to consolidate its control of AMB . |