Tenses 5

1. By the time Brahms ____ to compose his symphonies, this form ____ well established.

2. For nearly a decade most governments in the world ____ to find ways of combating environmental problems.

3. By the end of this term of office, he ____ all the projects he has already undertaken.

4. Before the nationwide vaccination campaign ____ , the infant mortality rate ____ to an alarming extent.

5. For a hundred years or so some critics ____ that poetry is dying and all that time poets ____ poems that later generations recognise as great.

6. What I ____ is that we ___ to think seriously about a thorough reform in the legal system.

7. When the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli ____ a map of Mars in 1877, he ____ a large number of straight linear features, which he called “canali” that is “channels”.

8. Marxism ____ an important movement in Britain even though it ____ its origin here.

9. The history of the Venetian Republic ____ to an end in 1797 when Venice ____ over to Austria by Napoleon.

10. More than half of the 850 asylum seekers currently detained in Britain ____ in prison with no right of appeal, even though the vast majority ____ with any offence, let alone convicted.