Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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and religious leaders throughout Europe ; though its messages now had to be shorter , since the shipping line had withdrawn free cabling facilities . |
| 6 | The measure was supported by all major parties except the Akali Dal ( Mann ) , which had withdrawn parliamentary support from the National Front coalition government in protest at the proposal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One glance told Rachel the pilot had sustained serious chest injuries . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The basement of the house had sustained heavy damage and part of the ceiling on the top floor had collapsed . |
| 11 | The consultant was visibly shaking as he described how the 12-year-old victim had sustained severe head and facial injuries . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | Sylvia had taught Ancient Greek to Elizabeth , and Modern Greek to me : dire indeed would have been the twang . |
| 17 | He had taught German literature in the high school in Breslau . |
| 18 | Although the two canoeists who were ashore had been barely 200 yards inland they had gathered sufficient information to confirm that LACs could land on the beach at Houlgate . |
| 19 | Other UN inspectors in Baghdad have extended their stay beyond the planned departure yesterday , after saying that they had gathered fresh information on Iraq 's ballistic missile programme . |
| 20 | The status of the quasi-currency had provoked sharp disagreement between the Ukraine National Bank and the government . |
| 21 | This had provoked Democratic infighting in the Senate . |
| 22 | Endeavours to enforce assimilation to Graeco-Roman culture upon the Jews had provoked fierce resistance . |
| 23 | 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 ] . |
| 24 | She was glad to escape ; it had been a working lunch , set up to discuss a new second-year course on the influence of gender on literary style , and the syllabus had provoked considerable opposition from two of her older male colleagues . |
| 25 | Many had witnessed extreme violence . |
| 26 | His opportunity to counter the French threat came in the Low Countries , an area which had witnessed English intervention against France almost half a century earlier . |
| 27 | Gehlen knew more about Russian intelligence than anyone else in Germany and on several occasions had outwitted Russian intelligence completely . |
| 28 | Jill had acheived intenational recognition for her campaign for John 's release , but she watched his flight into Lyneham on TV like the rest of us . |
| 29 | In addition , and as a result of the work undertaken by its resident tutors in Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire , the Board had developed systematic provision of all types of classes and courses on a scale beyond that imaginable if the District had been the sole provider . |
| 30 | Three patients had developed anastomotic disease recurrence and had required a further resection and reanastomosis 8–14 years before this study . |