Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agricultural base that had offered wealth and apparent stability to Sussex life was steadily weakened in the course of the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | The dark , sticky mass that had been Dominic Wetherby 's head . |
| 3 | As a control , sections from all patient and control lungs were stained with ET-1 antiserum that had been immunoabsorbed with synthetic ET-1 overnight at 4°C , or incubated with normal goat serum instead of the primary antisera . |
| 4 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 5 | The emission standards were set without regard to the constraints of technological or economic feasibility that had previously influenced policy-making . |
| 6 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 7 | Miocene/Pliocene trondhjemite , tonalite and ignimbrite comprise the final magmatic event ( 5Myr ) in the central Andes of Peru ; we consider that they were produced by partial melting of lower crust that had recently been , or was still being , thickened by magma underplating . |
| 8 | He kept babbling then about some fiend that had taken possession of him . |
| 9 | The social provision that had been Britain 's thank-offering to an expectant postwar world after 1945 had left the problem of poverty , in some respects , remarkably and alarmingly unaffected . |
| 10 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 11 | As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench . |
| 12 | In his public appearances , he boasted tirelessly about the miracles of economic and social progress that had already been achieved and proselytized about the necessity of further modernization . |
| 13 | Cranks was another revue that had become a sort of watchword for the kind of show this was . |
| 14 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
| 15 | His eyes , in their now puffy setting , came back to her , and there was a trace at last of the old look that had warmed her all those years ago . |
| 16 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |
| 17 | The Doctor recognized the signs of an unstable metabolism that had been forced into accelerated decay . |
| 18 | But Arsenal began to display some of the tidy , organised football that had brought them four consecutive victories and they were rewarded with a superb equaliser 16 minutes from time when Campbell latched onto Martin Keown 's long pass , ghosted past two defenders and hammered the ball home . |
| 19 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |
| 20 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 21 | Quite the opposite to the calm peacefulness that had existed in Heymouth prior to the flood . |
| 22 | And with that move the programme changed as the administrators began to pay more attention to the ultimate goal , a working power system , rather than the scientific research that had intrigued the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 23 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 24 | The remedial action that had to be taken was painful in the extreme but it saved ICI Fibres and put it in a position of strength for the future . |
| 25 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 26 | Like Jane Austen , he is also well aware of the social divide that had been created by such villages , for he observes that ‘ the possessors of extensive parks abhorred the appearance of a human habitation , however humble or however distant ; and the first object of a new settler , of the rank of a gentleman , was , generally , to purchase everything around him ; and to seclude himself in a sort of artificial forest , for his own exclusive enjoyment and that of his friends ’ . |
| 27 | With the milled edge of the coin he chipped at the red-brown crust that had formed between the lower lip of the cap of the bolt and the metal sheet plate of the carriage flooring . |
| 28 | How she loathed this web that had been spun so swiftly round her . |
| 29 | He was like an old car that had been around in the neighbourhood for a long time , loaned out among your friends , used and passed on , so that when it got to you in your time , you knew what you were getting . |
| 30 | Severe reactions were encountered on two occasions to citrus fruits ( high in salicylate ) but further progress was hampered by obstruction at the old anastomosis that had to be refashioned in 1986 . |