Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resentment at press-gang methods had caused sporadic revolts in rural Java , though the full extent of this horror was not yet known . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thirteen of the survivors had suffered severe burns . |
| 7 | Until then , drivers had to wear protective capes . |
| 8 | Following France 's defeat by Germany in the war of 1870-1 and her loss of Alsace and Lorraine , her strategists had devised numerous plans in the event of another war . |
| 9 | It emerged that Michael Heseltine , Kenneth Clarke , Malcolm Rifkind and Tristan Garel-Jones from the Trade , Home , Defence and Foreign Ministries had signed public interest immunity certificates to keep the Whitehall memos out of court . |
| 10 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 11 | Other pilotage parties had seen mixed fortunes : Don Amer 's help was spurned by one flotilla officer who managed later to put his cargo personnel ashore 1½ miles ( over 2km ) off their target . |
| 12 | But hardly any kids had taken hard drugs like heroin and cocaine . |
| 13 | And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height . |
| 14 | Britain 's member , Martin Morland , said the commission needed to make clear that Muslims and Croat fighters had committed human rights violations as well as Serbs . |
| 15 | In Vienna , emancipation began with the liberal reforms of 1848 , and by the 1860s Jews had obtained full freedom of migration . |
| 16 | Endeavours to enforce assimilation to Graeco-Roman culture upon the Jews had provoked fierce resistance . |
| 17 | As each new AGR started construction , such serious engineering and design problems were encountered that the designers had to make major alterations to the next in the series . |
| 18 | These seven officers and ten or so ratings had done rudimentary training with gear they bought mostly in the Cairo bazaar , and they were most interested in the COPPist 's equipment , which included some new suits designed by Siebe Gorman but not tested fully by the wearers . |
| 19 | He felt that Lord Atkin had been attempting to explain what was meant by a judicial decision but unfortunately his words had encouraged subsequent courts to concentrate on the form rather than the essence of the decision . |
| 20 | For a week the superpowers had played nuclear poker as President Kennedy warned Soviet leader Krushchev to dismantle Russian missiles based in Cuba . |
| 21 | that was n't terribly elegant but anyway his blue labels had got , these little sticky labels had got blue stripes on them |
| 22 | Specifically , for the verbal task , subjects had to report 3-letter nonsense syllables presented in either the left or right hemifield and , for the spatial task , they had to locate the position of a dot in a rectangle exposed within one or other visual field . |
| 23 | The vote had the effect of removing from the top of the political agenda , if only temporarily , an issue which for many months had caused divisive debate in the country at large , and had threatened to overshadow Pope John Paul II 's visit to his homeland , due in June . |
| 24 | Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones . |
| 25 | The United Nations had ordered new sanctions on Serbia and its little ally Montenegro to be applied if the Bosnian Serbs refused to give their final assent to the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 26 | In the post-war period , these districts had undergone precipitous decline from their pre-war position as thriving communities servicing the world 's largest port . |
| 27 | Reports on Aug. 8 said that UN-IAEA inspectors had discovered sophisticated centrifuge technology used to produce enriched uranium at al-Farat , 30 km south-west of Baghdad [ see p. 38211 ; 38307 ; 38360 ] . |
| 28 | The Catholic and especially Buddhist revivals were partially reactions to earlier activities of Protestant missionaries , who as part of their strategy to gain converts had produced polemical literature and established schools , including those which provided the best available English-language instruction . |
| 29 | The rush in central London reached fever pitch even though shoppers had to endure constant disruption as a consequence of the IRA 's campaign . |
| 30 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |