Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three patients had developed anastomotic disease recurrence and had required a further resection and reanastomosis 8–14 years before this study . |
| 2 | He said that licensing justices at Flint , Mold and Hawarden were endeavouring to only grant licences to experienced people and those who had completed various licensing training courses and had passed the British Institute of Inn Keeping examination . |
| 3 | Russia 's intended sale of diesel submarines to Iran , which had aroused strong US opposition , was delayed as a result of a dispute over trade payments , according to a Russian announcement on Sept. 25 . |
| 4 | I was wondering , would you know if any other subscriber to the hunt had received similar hate mail ? |
| 5 | Even after they had received total protection status , beluga numbers in the St Lawrence continued to decline , and autopsies of dead whales during the 1980s revealed astonishing levels of toxic chemicals — in particular organochlorines such as PCBs , the insecticides DDT and mirex , and dioxin . |
| 6 | Just over half the teenagers we surveyed had received formal sex education on AIDS and the HIV virus which leads to AIDS . |
| 7 | In December 1989 President George Bush had given final US approval of the 50-year compact whereby the US would provide $1,000 million in aid to the heavily indebted Pacific country . |
| 8 | Verity Kalcev , formerly at Book Data , had joined International Book Development as international training administrator , reporting to Euan Henderson . |
| 9 | It had to meet huge mortgage indemnity insurance claims from lenders of repossessed homes now worth less than was lent on them . |
| 10 | Yeremi 's amazement at being tested in the presence of none other than a Space Marine was spiked with bile at the recollection of how that brat and his fellow high-life hooligans , who stood so contemptuously above any law , had hustled injured cousin Yakobi away to a vile death , crowing and bragging . |
| 11 | 17 patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus of more than five years ' duration who had reported altered hypoglycaemia awareness within three months of transferring to human insulin . |
| 12 | The official US investigation had blamed poor operator training , lax maintenance procedures and deficiencies in the regulatory system . |
| 13 | The PRD and PAN claimed that the elections had been a " scandalous fraud " , that the PRI had organized widespread ballot rigging , and that it had used violence to guarantee victory . |
| 14 | The FAO meeting also heard that 63 tropical forest countries had thus far accepted the broad outline of the 1985 Tropical Forest Action Plan ( TFAP — see p. 36249 ) and that 20 of these had prepared co-ordinated forestry development plans . |
| 15 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 16 | Although admission was free the public had to purchase Red Cross badge which gave the spectators temporary membership . |
| 17 | Lung-tissue specimens were collected from 52 patients who had undergone open lung biopsy or lung transplantation and had a clinical and/or histological diagnosis of interstitial lung fibrosis , and , as a control group , from 17 lungs intended for transplant but unused . |
| 18 | One prominent cinema organist would completely lose control of his feet when attempting to record ; the violinist Bronislaw Huberman needed perfect quiet , and could even hear a typist operating six storeys away , but Jan Kubelik , though always needing to stand on a rubber mat , had possessed perfect studio concentration . |
| 19 | The outcome of the vote had been determined partly by reports that Pakistan had sought ballistic missile technology from China . |
| 20 | He was also convicted of five counts of obtaining property by deception , namely sums of money by way of fees from Mr. Burt and another man named Hughes , contrary to section 15(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , the deception being that he had done certain accountancy work for those persons who were both small businessmen , when in truth he had not . |
| 21 | Bell had done original design work on a defunct prop-powered XP–59 and that designation was carried over to the new effort in an attempt to mask the true nature of the project . |
| 22 | He knew this was disingenuous : he had made poor Jonas sound like a companion , to arouse sympathy . |
| 23 | Fleischmann and Pons claimed that they had produced net power output from this approach at levels that would potentially solve the world 's energy needs . |
| 24 | By the sixth century they had mastered advanced timber construction . |
| 25 | Britta had anticipated harsh design criticism but the fashion buyers and the press are pleasantly surprised . |
| 26 | Hill had accused Supreme Court aspirant Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment years earlier , and feminists were outraged when the court rebuffed her claims . |
| 27 | I had a distinct impression that many of the organisers had had professional theatre experience and that , naturally , their point of view was coloured by this , while the teachers had arrived at the point of realising the potential of drama as a tool of education . |
| 28 | A not untypical background of an early headhunter was someone who had had general management experience and had worked in one or more functional roles , and then found themselves , for the best of reasons , on the market . |
| 29 | Within the year before the interview 27 patients had had pulmonary arterial pressures measured directly and 23 had had total lung capacity ( helium dilution ) and gas transfer measured . |
| 30 | My grades were excellent and I had had hands-on work experience with marketing agencies in the West End . |