Example sentences of "had launched a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LTTE had launched a major assault on July 10 on the Sri Lankan government 's army base at Elephant Pass . |
| 2 | Renamo insisted on Kenyan mediation and claimed that the Frelimo government had launched a major offensive against rebel-controlled zones . |
| 3 | In January the government had launched a major offensive aimed at capturing the Karen headquarters at Manerplaw on the eastern border with Thailand [ see pp. 38725 ; 38767 ; 38815 ] . |
| 4 | These developments took place against a background of continuing clashes between government forces and UNITA , with a number of reports suggesting that the government had launched a major offensive . |
| 5 | In early March Saudi Arabian companies had started trucking food into Kuwait and had launched a major refuse clearing operation . |
| 6 | Taylor refused to agree to his troops being disarmed while they remained under attack from the United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia ( ULIMO — a coalition of supporters of former President Samuel Doe , reportedly based in Sierra Leone ) , which had launched a renewed attack on the NPFL as the Geneva talks began . |
| 7 | With communications seriously disrupted , reports from parts of the country were sketchy , but it appeared that UNITA had launched a new offensive in response to its electoral defeat . |
| 8 | The British had launched a powerful attack , and first Mersa Matruh ( which Mussolini had planned to enter in triumph ) fell , then Bardia and Tobruk . |
| 9 | The gesture followed months of escalating political violence in Sind during which the PPP had claimed that the provincial government had launched a political vendetta against its members [ see pp. 38338 ; 38393 ; 38683 ] . |
| 10 | The military said it had launched a big manhunt for army coup leaders who escaped when their men surrendered . |
| 11 | The mujaheddin had launched a fresh rocket offensive against the city on Feb. 26 . |
| 12 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 13 | Manuilski , on behalf of the Party , indicted the Ukrainian Bolsheviks for excluding Ukrainian participation from the government , for behaving like a typically colonial regime ( at the 8th Party Congress Lenin had launched a scathing attack on Great Russian chauvinism in the Ukrainian regional section ) . |
| 14 | Assisted by a recent Supreme Court ruling that members of the last parliament were not immune from prosecution for corruption even if they had been re-elected , Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Sir Julius Chan had launched a full investigation in late July into the financial dealings of the previous government . |