Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
| 2 | The barometer had fallen a further ten points to 28.5 . |
| 3 | Soon the seven-year-old girl had killed an older pupil who mocked her . |
| 4 | An army spokesman announced on Jan. 3 that the military had foiled a further coup plot , supposedly hatched jointly by the rightist Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) and the leftist New People 's Army ( NPA ) , which was to have opened with the bombing of the Basa air base in Pampanga . |
| 5 | Despite the fanfare which greeted the launch of the Air 180 last year , the subsequent arrival of the Air Huarache had made a greater impression on our testers , who have found it to be both innovative and effective . |
| 6 | Branson 's absence had made office life more predictable , less exciting , but Virgin had become a better record company . |
| 7 | Clearly Auld was of the opinion that the Tyndale incident could have been avoided if the authority had taken a wider view of its role . |
| 8 | A return to work was negotiated under the conditions prevailing before the strike had begun so the union had prevented a further round of wage reductions ; but this was achieved at such a cost as to convince the leadership of the impossibility of organizing effective strike action in agriculture . |
| 9 | Jones had tried various materials and what he now sought was rather clearly defined — are there neutrons of a specific energy or not ? — and his apparatus was almost completed and ready to go ; the chemists by contrast had to do a broader range of experiments as their problem was more subtle — is there fusion and if so by what process ? — and the necessary materials and apparatus had yet to be assembled . |
| 10 | We concur with the DCSLs who felt that Major award schools had put more thinking into their documentation and that the larger funding had made a greater impact on provision , management and the physical organisation and appearance of the library . |
| 11 | A fleet of 50,000 tons at the time of Drake had become a grander fleet of 200,000 tons a century later when Samuel Pepys was " clerk of the king 's ships " . |
| 12 | She had already noticed that when he walked he limped more than a little , favouring his left leg , but his face had taken a greater hurt . |