Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] that had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously , one pre eminent group of creatures that included not only the dinosaurs but birds and humans — a group that has lasted to the present day — was the bipedal or two-legged walking variety that had a group of sense organs at one end . |
| 2 | One authority in the Brazilian Mineral Institute claimed that ‘ Congress felt that foreign mining companies that had already made huge investments here should be differentiated from newly arrived companies ’ . |
| 3 | The lighting down here was bright , the surroundings that depressing blend of streaked concrete walls and painted metal fittings that had become the principal feature of late twentieth-century gothic . |
| 4 | The next room was a garbagey mess of ripped packaging and stacked video cases , and old display material that had been slung in and forgotten . |
| 5 | Five or six stones had toppled from the pile and were lying half-buried in the snow , and some red and white cloth streamers that had been tied to a branch of the tree fluttered slightly in the breeze , torn and faded from the wind and rain . |
| 6 | Sleaford was described as a flourishing and important market town that had been ‘ much improved and beautified during the present century ’ ; its population had risen from 1,483 to 3,372 between 1801 and 1851 . |
| 7 | We can witness all these in Worsley 's book in which he demonstrates that architectural draughtsmanship reached a point of perfection by 1837 , after which it degenerated into mere technical proficiency , when even bodies such as the Institute of British Architects condemned the use of colour and supplementary foreground activities that had previously made competition perspectives more attractive . |