ダニエルさん、一般仁です。
また少しお聞きしたいことがあります。
http://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=1345&t=mi6&s=newsに、”Stanley Baker turned down the role of James Bond before Connery was cast, reveals his widow”という記事があります。そこに、次のような文があります：

The film was a labour of love for Baker, who co-produced and starred with the relatively unknown Michael Caine - and the film became the third most successful UK film of its year.

It had earned its costs many times over by 1976, the year Baker died of cancer aged 48.

質問ですが、”It had earned”の基準となる過去時は、”by 1976, the year Baker died of cancer aged 48.”かと思ったのですが、正しいでしょうか？

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>It had earned its costs many times over by 1976, the year Baker died of cancer aged 48.

>質問ですが、”It had earned”の基準となる過去時は、”by 1976, the year Baker died of cancer aged 48.”かと思ったのですが、正しいでしょうか？

Yes, the past tense (in this case, “died”) is used for the 基準となる過去時.

In an example I gave here a while back, “When I moved to Japan in 1984 (過去のこと), I had already lived in Australia and Canada (過去の前のこと)”

“moved” was the基準となる過去時.

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ダニエルさん、どうもありがとう。

いつも「基準となる過去時」が何かで、悩んでしまいます。いつも感謝いたします。

一般仁

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