Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [pron] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 2 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 3 | But not the Indians with whom I had a year . |
| 4 | The world communist movement , meanwhile , had virtually collapsed as an organised force , and individual parties had lost ground in nearly all the countries in which they had a legal existence ( some had simply disappeared ) . |
| 5 | A study in 1971 found that of 132 political states only 12 were true nation-states in which everyone had the same native tongue . |
| 6 | The LEA , then , appears to have been interventive on matters which schools themselves ought to have dealt with , and laissez-faire on other matters in which it had a wholly legitimate interest . |
| 7 | I thought it might have amused X. Ray to see it and hoped one day he would , but not under the hostile circumstances in which I had the misfortune to discover myself . |
| 8 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 9 | Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest . |
| 10 | Inaugurating the new boards of the affected banks on July 13 , Falae announced that the government planned to privatize all the banks in which it had a controlling interest , in line with the government 's policy of divesting itself of state holdings . |
| 11 | For much of its history psychobiology has been a subject ahead of its time , often asking questions for which it had no meaningful answers . |
| 12 | Lord Denning suggested that the accountant 's responsibility should not be extended further to include strangers of whom he had no knowledge . |
| 13 | The report was bitterly criticised by the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine which accused the authors of ‘ many inaccuracies ’ in describing treatments of which they had no first-hand experience . |
| 14 | This commitment grew out of profound emotional changes over which he had no control , and of which he himself perhaps had only an imperfect knowledge . |
| 15 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |
| 16 | They had been geared up to use so much physical energy that even when they were very old they had a dynamic force within their bodies for which they had no outlet . |
| 17 | Even if no one is around who can confirm a particular incident , if you are able to come up with details of surroundings and personalities of which you had no conscious memory , and if these are later proved to have been accurate , there is no real reason to suppose that a significant event was simply a figment of an over-active imagination . |
| 18 | The three of them were involved in some game of the sexes in which she had no part . |
| 19 | She says ‘ It was clear that the sister 's influence on learning extended beyond the actual teaching she did ; for she was able to initiate teaching and ( through her ward organisation ) place learners in situations in which they had an opportunity to learn ’ ( Fretwell , 1980 , p. 70 ) . |
| 20 | Some of us are puzzled by this phenomenon , because it seems incompatible with another idea we cherish , which is that people must not be blamed for acts over which they had no control , nor held responsible for unfair gains when they have gained nothing themselves . |
| 21 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 22 | His adventures concluded he retires to Dulwich saying that he will never regret those two years , with their ‘ scenes of which I had no previous conception ’ leading to ‘ the enlargement of my mind ’ , PP passim . |
| 23 | Other Hollywood stars with whom I had the pleasure of working in the war effort included Fred MacMurray , Herbert Marshall , Edgar Bergen ( with Charlie McCarthy ) and Barbara Stanwyck , among others . |
| 24 | Farmers traditionally tried to get rid of creatures in which they had no direct commercial interest , and town dwellers tried to banish moles , squirrels , and foxes from their gardens , and bats from their lofts . |
| 25 | His pristine shield with the glittering cross was scarred and broken by blows of which he had no recollection . |
| 26 | Teachers are asked to give serious thought to attending the Summer Course at Green Park , Bucks. , if at all possible Full particulars are in the leaflet on courses of which you had a copy . |
| 27 | The presentation of the Statement of Commitment to any group of people is n't the easiest of tasks to perform , but the gentle and personal way you handled it in the sections for which you had a responsibility was very well done , as we knew it would be . |
| 28 | It seemed insanely silly to Lydia that she should be standing in her own kitchen flanked by two women for whom she had no time . |
| 29 | Branson 's readiness to delegate responsibility and encourage people in tasks for which they had no particular qualification had been important in determining the mood of the company . |
| 30 | NO ADDRESSES Mr Pearson said he thought there were about another 200 premises for which they had no addresses . |