Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have said before , the intellectual aristocracy of B.P. , who lived near the Park or had private transport , were able to take part in many home-made activities , such as the pleasure of organising and playing in small domestic chamber concerts , or chess , bridge , tennis , dancing , and amateur dramatics . |
| 2 | He had once said that he did n't know whether his passion for water-power was a result of meanness or had some deeper Freudian significance . |
| 3 | They asked : were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible ? |
| 4 | There have been many Western and Soviet studies of religious belief per se , and of the interaction in Soviet history between an atheist regime and a highly religious peasantry , but scant reference is made to socio-economic views and actions derived from religion that had ultimate political repercussions . |
| 5 | After 113 minutes of attacking football that had Second Division Swindon reeling from the start , Third Division Bolton finally took the lead through Brown . |
| 6 | this water was full of waves — small ones from the stiff breeze that destroyed the reflections , larger waves that had recognisable reflections in each of their troughs . |
| 7 | In fact the darkness , the whispers , the creaking floorboards , the footsteps and the thought of a stalking murderer had had their usual effect on her : a state of fear that had little to do with pleasure . |
| 8 | I 've noted there that , that if you were to bid for funds that had tapering attaching to them , and therefore you would be picking up increased costs in ninety five , six , and ninety six , seven , that they would n't exceed the figure shown at the bottom of the page . |
| 9 | It was not the kindness that had first struck Dinah Asshe , but a young man 's interest in herself ; she had not been permitted to meet many young men . |
| 10 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | It was Miss Hazelwood that had first told her about her Guardian Angel . |
| 12 | Now the side that had more failures ( or more was the side that lost , and the row that had less , of course , was the one that was successful . |
| 13 | He planted trees in carefully placed clumps and had two huge lakes created near the palace . |
| 14 | The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game . |
| 15 | In the period after 1945 the Liberals were at a very low ebb and had significant support only in rural areas of Scotland , Wales and South-West England where industrial development was largely absent and so there was little trade union activity . |
| 16 | She wore spectacles and had fine auburn hair that was swept back untidily into a bun . |
| 17 | One hundred and sixty patients were entered into the programme and had 739 colonoscopies ( 4.6 colonoscopies per patient ; 709 patient years follow up ) . |
| 18 | One hundred and sixty patients entered the surveillance programme and had 739 colonoscopies ( 4.6 colonoscopy/patient ; 709 years follow up ) . |
| 19 | We know what happened : Enya was very quickly to attract the attention of David Puttman and had two successful soundtrack recordings for the BBC , ‘ The Frog Prince ’ and ‘ The Celts ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I was working in the BBC pensions department and had short-lived aspirations of getting into TV . |
| 21 | He had the same qualifications as me but he was from a different department and had less experience . |
| 22 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 23 | The strongest motivation for inscribing multilateralism in the new world order came from the United States and had definite implications for the UK . |
| 24 | He was meticulous in his use of words and had little patience with careless speech or syntax . |
| 25 | In one series only one third of patients complaining of heartburn or regurgitation two years after fundoplication and had abnormal 24 hour pH score . |
| 26 | The majority of these companies were directly involved with the emerging oil industry and had strong American connections . |
| 27 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 28 | He did not mix with the crowd at the Rotonde and had little sympathy with the wild scenes of the moderns . |
| 29 | Ms Claire Norminton , who will manage the organisation , said last night Tees Valley Tourism had brought £379,000 of business into the area in the last six months and had 5,000 interested holiday contacts on its data base . |
| 30 | Claire Norminton , who will manage the organisation , said last night Tees Valley Tourism had brought £379,000 of business into the area in the last six months and had 5,000 interested holiday contacts on its data base . |