Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doris and the editor auditioned dancers who had to perform physical exercises along with acrobatic dancing . |
| 2 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |
| 3 | They had placed small groups of bowmen wherever this rich cover offered , keeping their main companies higher along the hills to shoot over them . |
| 4 | The owners of the roadside dhabas had placed steaming cauldrons full of saffron-coloured biryani rice outside their doors ; from inside came wafts of grilling kebabs . |
| 5 | Soon after the embarrassing disclosure , the French ministry announced an inquiry into claims that Glaxo had placed numerous articles in the popular press and on television promoting its prescription-only migraine cure . |
| 6 | Women 's organizations , although disappointed at the outcome , took heart that the episode had placed sexual harassment in the workplace firmly on the political agenda and had increased prospects for legislation to attack this . |
| 7 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 8 | The Reserve Bank of India ( RBI ) , the central bank , had placed severe credit restrictions on imports on March 20 in an attempt to curb the outflow of hard currency following a sharp deterioration in foreign exchange reserves . |
| 9 | The most successful of the three accords was with Brazil , whose president Kubitschek needed both to find new export outlets and to conserve foreign exchange in the aftermath of a rapid industrial expansion policy which had placed severe strains on his country 's economy . |
| 10 | The violence had placed severe strains on the ANC 's relationship with the government over the issue of perceived police partiality towards Inkatha supporters , and had delayed the holding of negotiations on a post-apartheid constitution . |
| 11 | On 4 June , the same crowds which had filled Happy Valley with rallies of pop music and bright colours gathered , now in mourning clothes of black and white . |
| 12 | The terms of the Soviet plan , now made public , were that ( i ) Iraq would make a full and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait ; ( ii ) the withdrawal would start on the second day after hostilities ceased ; ( iii ) Iraqi forces would depart according to a fixed timetable ; ( iv ) after two-thirds of Iraqi forces had withdrawn economic sanctions against Iraq would be lifted ; ( v ) after all Iraqi forces had left all UN Security Council resolutions against Iraq would lapse ; ( vi ) all prisoners of war would be released when the ceasefire became effective ; ( vii ) the troop withdrawal would be monitored by forces from countries not involved in the conflict , under direction of the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) work on details and specifics would continue and would be presented on Feb. 22 to Security Council members . |
| 13 | The passenger committee addressed its appeals to political and religious leaders throughout Europe ; though its messages now had to be shorter , since the shipping line had withdrawn free cabling facilities . |
| 14 | The measure was supported by all major parties except the Akali Dal ( Mann ) , which had withdrawn parliamentary support from the National Front coalition government in protest at the proposal . |
| 15 | In The Emperor 's Clothes ( 1953 ) Kathleen Nott called the Christian revivalism of Eliot , Lewis and others no better than a revived superstition ; and in a scathing attack on contemporary dogmatics and the anti-progressive views of literary Modernism she remarked , in tones of ultimate scorn , that Lewis 's interest in the Devil had plumbed unusual depths . |
| 16 | The dogs , who had sustained monotonous barking at Leon Kennedy since he entered , now submitted to aloof ecstasy as he kneeled to massage their ears . |
| 17 | One glance told Rachel the pilot had sustained serious chest injuries . |
| 18 | This chapter concludes by examining the ways in which the notions of , maturity and masculinity which had Sustained professional links between English and Englishness were challenged from a range of pluralist , marxist , feminist , and other cultural perspectives during the 1970s , which , in the context of a counter assault from the new right , culminated in the symbolic " Cambridge Crisis " of 1981 . |
| 19 | Petrochemicals and Plastics Division , as it was then , had sustained huge losses in 1980-81 . |
| 20 | Reports on March 26 , quoting Kurdish sources , said that Kurdish pesh merga guerrillas had been in control of the oil centre of Kirkuk for seven days during which they had sustained intensive shelling and air attacks by Iraqi government forces . |
| 21 | The basement of the house had sustained heavy damage and part of the ceiling on the top floor had collapsed . |
| 22 | The consultant was visibly shaking as he described how the 12-year-old victim had sustained severe head and facial injuries . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The change involved the production of a protective ‘ skin ’ to ensure that water loss to the atmosphere was not excessive , and the stems had to acquire sufficient rigidity to stand up without the support of surrounding water , but also the cellular structure had to allow the passage of nutrients to the growing shoots ( ultimately , a vascular system ) . |
| 25 | The Scouts had hellfired crowded transport sledges that slid at speed down glossy oiled vitrodur channels , diving from transit stations , canting along branch-lines , corkscrewing , swooping up to come to rest at other destinations … |
| 26 | It was Metzinger who , in his Note sur la Peinture of 1910 , was the first to write of the fact that Picasso and Braque had dismissed traditional perspective and felt free to move around their subjects , studying them from various points of view . |
| 27 | Abolition of the rule preventing practice under limited liability has led to very considerable growth in this form of organisation and , by 1988 , the proportion of practices which had formed limited liability companies had grown to 7.5 per cent of the total . |
| 28 | These reflected the extraordinary complexity of the political situation which had developed in Yugoslavia during the years of the German occupation , when different ethnic , religious and political groups had formed shifting alliances , according to whether their main enemy at any time had seemed to be the occupying Germans or Tito 's partisans working to establish a Socialist state in post-war Yugoslavia . |
| 29 | At the next seminar Mr Hargreaves — the same tutor who had referred poor June to me — asked me to stay behind . |
| 30 | The decree was made against a background of strikes which had paralysed public adminstration in five provinces , in protest against the government 's latest austerity policies [ see p. 37710 ] . |