Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [Wh det] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of a budget deficit which had necessitated borrowings of an estimated US$1,445 million , delegates broke with precedent and rejected government attempts to reduce public-sector employment ( estimated to comprise 60 per cent of the working population ) and to cut subsidies on basic goods and services . |
| 2 | And had perhaps Grace Bird 's goddammit of irritation been directed at her and not at the ball of beige knitting wool which had just then rolled off the shelf of the dressing-table ? |
| 3 | Voting was freely and fairly conducted , with more than 81 per cent of the country 's 29,000,000 registered voters participating in the poll and votes being tallied with abacuses in order to avoid the allegations of computer fraud which had marred the 1987 presidential elections . |
| 4 | Reports in late October confirmed that France had arrested key members of a Paris-based Russian espionage ring which had gained access to highly classified information on nuclear experiments . |
| 5 | This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck . |
| 6 | Numerous tales appeared , the most illustrious being the incident when Lambert fearlessly struck Bruin , a performing bear which had attacked his dog . |
| 7 | He declined to comment on the 1973 Roe v. Wade judgment — the landmark case which had established the right of women to have abortions — on the grounds that , if his nomination was confirmed , he would be required to consider the matter and did not wish to prejudge it . |
| 8 | Now for a bee to know the location of a barren car park which had certainly not been on their list of flower sites , it seems most reasonable to suppose that they were able to ‘ place ’ it on some sort of internal map and then work out the direction home . |
| 9 | We parked in the InterCity car park which had plenty of room . |
| 10 | The end labelled probe was mixed with 20µg of protein extract which had been preincubated with 5µg poly ( d ( I-C ) ) and single stranded or doubled stranded competitor DNA . |
| 11 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 12 | This scheme — which was widely adopted by colonial administrations right across the continent — killed two birds with one stone : it both raised money and it produced a large labour force which had previously been occupied with growing food for their families . |
| 13 | To put it very generally , from the mid-1950s ( the rock 'n' roll moment ) to the end of the 1960s the dominant sensibility in pop was a rock sensibility which had , at its cutting edge , an account of itself which drew on the Marxist critique of mass culture . |
| 14 | Already I could see myself standing there , tongue-tied and grinning sheepishly , the star of a bedroom farce which had gone badly off the rails . |
| 15 | The SPA had handled the flotation of the national travel agency Ibusz , the first state concern to have shares traded at the Hungarian stock exchange which had opened on June 21 . |
| 16 | On the last day of term the school assembled in the large upstairs room which had the screens pulled back for the occasion . |
| 17 | I had consumed several whiskies — the kind the inexpert Yorkshiremen pour as though it was ginger ale — and I had finished with a glass of old Mrs Earnshaw 's rhubarb wine which had seared its way straight to my toenails . |
| 18 | It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well . |
| 19 | The canal boatmen who came to live in Fisher Row upon the opening of the Oxford Canal in 1790 were a colourful group with distinctive dress , customs and style of boat decoration which had been developed in the previous two decades upon the canals of the Midlands . |
| 20 | His elder brother , Major Sir Hugo Berowne , had been killed in Northern Ireland and Paul Berowne had married his brother 's fiancee within five months of the car accident which had killed his wife . |
| 21 | He challenged the validity of a search warrant which had been obtained from a sheriff , alleging that statements by inquiry officers about a flickering light being seen at a bedroom window were a blatant and malicious fabrication . |
| 22 | Malendoma had been a leading member of the Consultative Group of Democratic Forces ( CFD ) , the opposition alliance which had demanded a sovereign national conference to determine the political future of the country . |
| 23 | These measures , collectively known as the Tory Reaction , meant that by 1685 the opposition alliance which had given rise to the first Whig party had largely crumbled . |
| 24 | He fetched a soiled length of plough cord which had obviously seen much service and fastened it round the cow 's hock . |
| 25 | His object attained , the remaining nine years of his life brought to a head many problems between himself and the labour movement which had been latent since his first incursion into a very different labour scene in 1887 . |
| 26 | Yesterday members of Darlington council planning committee heard it was doubt over the future of the Darlington inner ring road which had delayed the decision . |
| 27 | The June 1987 general election resulted in the return of Paias Wingti 's coalition government which had first come to office in November 1985 following a vote of no confidence in the government of Michael Somare . |
| 28 | None of these pictures constitutes a really important recovery but the list includes work of the calibre of a Honfleur harbour subject which had belonged to Mary Cassatt 's brother and which was sold by one of his descendants at Christies in New York in November 1991 ( Lot 26 ) . |
| 29 | The control group was treated with an oral triple therapy regimen which had previously been evaluated in a pilot study . |
| 30 | The Speaker of the outgoing Legislative Assembly , Dayanand Narvekar , resigned on Sept. 16 , 1989 , after opposition pressure which had included a hunger strike , over an alleged indecent assault . |