Example sentences of "the [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is an oversimplification to view the first decade of operation as some kind of golden age , it is fair to say that until this point the EEC had worked fairly smoothly . |
| 2 | By 1800 , Nez Perce buffalo-hunting expeditions to the Yellowstone had become too dangerous , and five years later a council in the Kamiah valley resolved to obtain firearms for the tribe . |
| 3 | But at the end of Day three the RAF had won again putting them level with the French at the top of the table … |
| 4 | Dressed in a purple coat and hat , the Queen told her audience the RAF had adapted well to changing circumstances . |
| 5 | The driver of the Vauxhall had got out of her car and was advancing with menaces . |
| 6 | The ACPS had set up a sub-committee , under the chairmanship of Baroness Wootton of Abinger , to carry out the review . |
| 7 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS defended the Institute against allegations that it had been ‘ bought ’ by industry by claiming the IIRS had turned down 15 major industries which could have caused dangerous pollution : he cited the example of a herbicide factory which could have wiped out much of the marine life in Cork Harbour . |
| 8 | The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement . |
| 9 | As a dynasty the Angevins had done well , but noticeably less well then either of their main rivals , the Normans ( who had conquered England ) and the Poitevins ( who had acquired Gascony ) . |
| 10 | In October 1990 the WEU had come out strongly against a proposal by the EC Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers that the EC 's Treaty of Rome should be amended to incorporate Article 5 of the Brussels Treaty establishing the WEU , so that the EC should effectively control the WEU . |
| 11 | By 1912 , however , the influence of Matisse and the Fauves , which the Brücke had grafted on to a more purely native form of Expressionism , was definitely on the wane , and German painters were feeling the influence of both Cubism and Futurism . |
| 12 | The ELN leadership confirmed on Sept. 20 that a Socialist Renewal Movement ( CRS ) within the ELN had set up its own organization . |
| 13 | By Lancaster Road standards , the Ryans had gone too far up in the world , making them aliens . |
| 14 | The Volvo had arrived less than twenty minutes later . |
| 15 | In land acquisition and development , by the end of 1986–7 , the LDDC had acquired almost 2,000 acres of land or enclosed water . |
| 16 | Between 1981 and the end of 1986–7 , the LDDC had spent about £380 million , most of this in the form of grant aid from the Department of the Environment . |
| 17 | The prosecution argued that the Newleys had driven down together from London ; after the murder , Mrs Newley had driven back in her husband 's car , and parked it near their home ; no doubt she hoped that the trip to Hampshire would never come to light . |
| 18 | The Renault had accelerated away , racing for the lights , but Jim 's race was run . |
| 19 | The Nobel had afforded only a temporary alleviation of this condition : indeed , the abbreviated stay in Princeton , the rush back to England , and the trip to Stockholm made him feel worse rather than better . |
| 20 | They also indicated that they would surrender their arms to ECOMOG as soon as the NPFL had done so . |
| 21 | Within three decades , the house of the Kyburgs had died out , and in marched the Habsburgs . |
| 22 | Both the Paviours had come out to greet their guest , Stephen Paviour long and sad and constrained as ever , Lesley eager and young and welcoming . |
| 23 | Although in many areas votes were cast for individual candidates rather than the party which fielded them , analysis of the results showed that support for the AP had shifted markedly from urban to rural areas where government development plans and projects had made an impact . |
| 24 | The NL had managed successfully to screen its activities from the attention of historians and political commentators to this day , but it was not so lucky with the relevant authorities . |
| 25 | Giving them a taste of the Battle of Britain , hitting their churches and cathedrals , just as the Jerries had done here . |
| 26 | All the earlier amphibians from the late Carboniferous and the Permian had died out in the Triassic , including the cotylosaurs . |
| 27 | The CNAA had to decide not only the merits of the particular case , but whether it would be willing and able ( under its Charter ) to validate a teachers ' certificate as well as a degree , and how it might relate to the Area Training Organizations which had some responsibility for the teaching practice component of existing courses . |
| 28 | The CNAA had become not just the ‘ safety net ’ validating body envisaged by the Robbins Committee and others , but also a major factor in the implementation of the new binary policy and the promotion of colleges , not to ‘ university status ’ by inclusion in the existing pattern of universities , but to a major element in a binary approach to what constituted ‘ higher education ’ . |
| 29 | But once the Petrovs had given up all their secrets they became difficult to please , claiming that their true value was not being appreciated . |
| 30 | A distinction drawn the previous day by Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok , who pointed out that the UDF was subject to restrictions but not formally banned , was dismissed by the UDF on Jan. 18 as a " play on semantics " ; moreover , the UDF had decided simply to disregard the restrictions , rather than apply to the authorities to have them lifted . |