Tenses 6

1. Over the past two decades, the Corsicans ____ their idyllic island, which was wrested by France from the Genoese in 1768, ____ into terrorism, corruption and economic decline.

2. For observers of international politics, March 1998 ____ as a month when the world’s superpower relations ____ a hopeful new turn.

3. He is hoping that, by the time he…….for the grant, his book on Egyptiant, silverwork …..

4. It seems that, even if big western companies …….. to help develop lifesaving GM ( genetically modified ) seeds for the underdeveloped countries, only South Africa ……to accept them.

5. The big test …….. over the next few weeks when the government ……. to introduce a plan to include drug coverage in Medicare.

6. Professional tennis, which got its start in 1926 when the French player Suzanne Lenglen _______________ 50,000 US dollars for a tour, only ________________ full recognition in 1968.

7. Once the director ________________ just how much was at stake, he ________________ immediate steps to deal with the dispute.

8. The once radical notion that birds ________________ from dinosaurs ________________ stronger and stronger since palaeontologists first started taking it seriously a couple of decades ago.

9. Throughout his term in office, President Clinton _____________ by allegations relating to the Whitewater real estate deal in which he and his wife, Hillary Clinton, ______________ prior to the 1992 election.

10. It is expected that, by mid-1992, the allied troops ____ out of the Gulf.