Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he served on several Government committees of enquiry or review as well as engaging in a little more political manoeuvring than had been his habit . |
| 2 | Mercedes explains that the biggest problem in developing the five-speed unit is the necessity to reduce mechanical and hydraulic losses to a lower level than had been achieved previously . |
| 3 | The essence of the British suggestion was that the time had come to rationalise the proliferation of European institutions that had sprung up over the past decade , most specifically by introducing a single European assembly which , unrelated to any one organisation , would serve them all . |
| 4 | By this time the wiring was a complete write-off and had to be replaced during lengthy repairs . |
| 5 | Steward needed three shots to escape his watery grave and had a drenched set of waterproofs to prove it . |
| 6 | The agricultural base that had offered wealth and apparent stability to Sussex life was steadily weakened in the course of the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Erm you know , almost you have to go too far or to go such er an extent it would be erm and the force simply to erm stop counter-revolution and , and to overthrow all , you know , deep seated authorities that had lasted thousands of years , I mean to , to overcome that you do need a revolution . |
| 8 | Ministers were selected mainly from the ruling National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development ( MRND — until June 1991 the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ) , with one from the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) ; both parties had announced their working programmes and had listed members . |
| 9 | The doors of the bar opened behind them and they went in to order hot chocolate from the rather older part-time student who had learned the advisability of doing something to earn a little money and had taken several jobs as a waitress . |
| 10 | The dark , sticky mass that had been Dominic Wetherby 's head . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | running from care : over half the 179 youngsters who had run from care were persistent absconders and had already run away at least five times before going to the safe house . |
| 13 | Oh I had a look at that Sierra that had a front-ender . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Zimbabwe , achieving independence in the 1980s , faced leaner economic times than had Zambia in the 1960s . |
| 16 | They had demanded the release of political prisoners and had reportedly been physically assaulted . |
| 17 | ‘ Many … had a complete ban and had been no-smoking from the start because they perceived that smoking did not fit in with their ethos — Boots , for example , or the Body Shop . ’ |
| 18 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 19 | RUSTLERS will get the trots if they eat two stolen sheep that had just been given de-worming chemicals , Northumberland police warned . |
| 20 | However , in 1971 Gerard 't Hooft showed that a unified model of the electromagnetic and weak interactions that had been proposed earlier by Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg was indeed renormalizable with only a finite number of infinite subtractions . |
| 21 | While the colonies looked to Englishmen like a widely diverse collection of territories with widely differing religious and economic foundations that had little in common , the other colonizing powers of Europe probably noticed their similarities rather than their differences . |
| 22 | Colonel Astor had bought The Times in 1922 specifically to keep it out of the clutches of Lloyd George , who was seeking a personal political base and had money to spend from his earlier sale of honours when Prime Minister . |
| 23 | However , this was ten times the size of the Terran designs and had been built centuries before man had even discovered fire . |
| 24 | Hodge came from rural Illinois and had climbed the military hierarchy without the prestige of having served at West Point . |
| 25 | The CCP document alleged that the two illegal organisations had held meetings in private homes and had drafted , painted and distributed ‘ illegal propaganda ’ which referred to the ‘ unification and survival of the Mongol nationality ’ . |
| 26 | The emission standards were set without regard to the constraints of technological or economic feasibility that had previously influenced policy-making . |
| 27 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 28 | US State Department official Margaret Tutwiler stated on March 5 that the US government had insisted for more than a month on a public inquiry into the current political violence and had offered technical assistance in its investigations . |
| 29 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 30 | On May 11 the Finance and Planning Minister Saifur Rahman said that the cyclone had cost the country US$3,000 million in economic losses and had rendered 4,000,000 people homeless . |