Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [adj] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | To that , also , the King had given a great part of his attention , but when , late in the spring , word came of the sighting of ships from Normandy in the Clyde , he left his wife and household at Perth , where they had stayed a full week , and rode with a small retinue westwards to meet them . |
| 2 | The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry . |
| 3 | Quiss had demolished a significant part of the castle when he first discovered this , unwilling to believe that the stones , every one of them , all the tens of thousands of cubic metres the castle must be composed of , all those kilotonnes of rock really were saturated , filled full of hidden , indecipherable lettering . |
| 4 | Prior to this , when David Wickins was in control , Rudd had played a key part in drawing Lotus to GM 's attention . |
| 5 | Although British statesmen had played a prominent part in bringing these organisations into being , the United Kingdom did not become a founder member and later approaches to join were either ineffective or rebuffed . |
| 6 | In so far as women had played a prominent part in Romanian politics , the precedents were not happy . |
| 7 | In Tolmezzo Domanov was joined by General Peter Krasnov , who had played a prominent part in the Russian Civil War , first as Ataman of the Don Cossacks and later in the Baltic States . |
| 8 | There seems little doubt that the team suffered badly by being deprived of the services of Ian Gow , a widely-respected , close associate of the Prime Minister who had played a major part in her 1989 campaign and whose murder by the IRA in July had led to the Eastbourne by-election . |
| 9 | This unit had played a major part in the successful First Libyan Campaign , and included a number of experienced fighter pilots in its ranks . |
| 10 | Britain had played a major part in the Bretton Woods agreement which , through the establishment of the International Monetary Fund , led to a major role for sterling as a reserve currency [ Eckes , 1975 ] ; and in 1945 , after considerable debate , it had opted for a large US loan ( $3.75bn plus $650m in settlement of Lend-Lease obligations ) as against tighter domestic restrictions on consumption , to help to overcome post-war shortages of goods and materials . |
| 11 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 12 | It was the ultimate war , the final confrontation between Good and Evil , and he had played a major part in the war . |
| 13 | That same report concluded that high income elasticities and low price elasticities had played a major part in this observed growth . |
| 14 | However , the bill exempted the mosque in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , an issue which had provoked fierce rioting in recent years and had played a major part in the collapse of the government of V. P. Singh in November 1990 [ see p. 37854 ] . |
| 15 | The Labour Party , which had played a central part in achieving educational change through Circular 10/65 ( see page 15 ) , had become more and more doubtful about the political wisdom of some of the changes it had itself pioneered . |
| 16 | Leslie Todd-Reeve thought it ‘ a great strip of a place ’ , but other of Minton 's friends were aghast at its near-suburban taste and suspected that Ricky had played a dominant part in its making . |
| 17 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 18 | Their rejection of the Old Testament set aside the argument from fulfilled prophecy which had played a notable part in his conversion . |
| 19 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 20 | Serbia , which bad been semi-independent from 1817 and fully independent from 1878 , and which had played a considerable part in the First World War ( and suffered enormous losses ) , was the nucleus of the new state . |
| 21 | The poets and critics had played a considerable part in stimulating and organizing the first manifestations of the Cubists , but the connections between Orphism and contemporary literature were stronger and more direct . |
| 22 | Sport had played a significant part in his life . |
| 23 | Eustace had played a significant part in the struggle between Angevin and Capetian royal houses , but , as with the case of his contemporary , Fulk Fitzwarine [ q.v. ] , it was his exploits as a fugitive on the run from authority which really appealed to his biographer . |
| 24 | The Moynihans accepted that sailors had become a regular part of Minton 's entourage . |
| 25 | Paisley and Craig had spent a good part of the previous year publicly disagreeing about the future of Stormont . |
| 26 | Joseph Sturge , who had assumed a leading part in the fight against apprenticeship , anticipated triumphs on a broader imperial and international scale which would confirm Britain 's moral leadership in the world . |
| 27 | By the end of that century , engineers had converted a large part of the area to agricultural land . |
| 28 | The Yang brothers had taken a prominent part in quelling the " turmoil " in mid-1989 and presided over a massive programme of political education within the army . |
| 29 | While it was aware of the threat of a general strike of seamen in May 1911 , it saw little support for this outside the United Kingdom and the United States , where Andrew Furuseth , president of the International Seamen 's Union and a close ally of Wilson 's , had taken a leading part in the agitation for an international dispute . |
| 30 | Hugh Dalton , returned to parliament in 1935 , had taken a leading part in reconciling the Party to rearmament and in this he was backed by Bevin , Citrine and the TUC . |