Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The backbone of the system was the 60-mile [ 96-km ] road along the Great Glen linking Fort William and Fort George , to build which vast quantities of solid rock had to be blasted away along the eastern side of Loch Ness . |
| 2 | Because of his debt to his followers , Franco knew that a certain free play had to be allowed within the regime , but he was determined that he alone would control its limits and what was permissible within them . |
| 3 | Senior ministers last night emphasised that the British position had remained unchanged since the Madrid summit , where they had stressed that adequate preparation had to be made long before stages II and III of the Delors plan could be settled . |
| 4 | Senior ministers last night emphasised that the British position had remained unchanged since the Madrid summit , where they had stressed that adequate preparation had to be made long before stages II and III of the Delors plan could be settled . |
| 5 | The emphatic denigration contained in this locational insult had to be heard to be understood , and in many ways it paralleled the dismissive tone used to deride the ‘ civvy ’ , for nuances of speech and tone have immense meaning to insiders . |
| 6 | Because one of the by products of peat is methane , careful monitoring had to be carried out throughout the operation to ensure that there was no gas build up or migration . |
| 7 | Top weighting had to be achieved by the disposition of proportion , ornament and light . |
| 8 | William Hughes and the Unitarian William Roscoe , following Granville Sharp 's argument in the 1770s , asserted the scriptural sanction of slave trading to have only particular application ; they tried to bolster scripture as a reliable instrument of antislavery revelation by insisting that Harris ' reliance on the Old Testament had to be modified or abrogated by the New Testament . |
| 9 | Since then , AT&T has been urging the FCC not to grant BT a licence unless the gesture is reciprocated ; its British rival had until this week been taking a similar line . |
| 10 | In colonial Ruanda-Burundi , several weeks of free labour had to be given each year by the commune to build up terraces , bunds and other erosion works . |
| 11 | This meeting was the first direct contact between the two countries since their acceptance of the August 1988 ceasefire agreement [ see pp. 35600 ; 36167 ; 36171 ] , although the Iraqi side had in April and May 1990 proposed the holding of a summit meeting in Mecca , Saudi Arabia . |
| 12 | Instead of being at the top , they were being concentrated in middle management , where all the hard detailed work had to be done . |
| 13 | It examined and rejected the proposition that a general right of privacy should be legally recognised , pointing out that this was not the way in which English law had in recent centuries sought to protect the main democratic rights of citizens — neither the right of free speech nor the right of free assembly being embodied in statute law , for example . |
| 14 | The Navajo Tribal Council had on Feb. 17 voted to strip MacDonald of his administrative power in the wake of bribery accusations revealed in Senate subcommittee testimony . |
| 15 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 16 | Wherever the pressure occurred , a different tactic had to be developed to release it . |
| 17 | The Scientific Committee had in previous years expressed concern about the Dall 's porpoise harpoon fishery , fearing that even the much smaller annual catch may not have been sustainable , since Japanese scientists had calculated a replacement rate of only about 5000 porpoises each year . |
| 18 | The prompt reply showed just how little Security now had to do : CCOAC translated as Churchgoers Concerned About Communism a one-off conference had in May 1968 . |
| 19 | As regards their gods , benevolent ones were honoured , whereas those of an equivocal nature had to be appeased at the appropriate times . |
| 20 | Er the first of erm er three three million square feet , second of four and a half , and erm the er in both cases it triggered the call-in procedure under the departure and in both cases er a public inquiry had to be held er or the Secretary of State chose to call a public inquiry . |
| 21 | After an appeal to the Bundesgerichtshof , the European Court of Justice affirmed that a fresh examination had to be made under Article 27(2) , and the court in the state where enforcement was sought was not bound by the determination made under Article 15 of the Hague Convention . |
| 22 | The way to greater profitability , then , lay in the direction of bringing in better sorts of people and , to ensure that , a careful eye had to be kept on what was actually shown in the cinemas . |
| 23 | CIT 's honourary president the Princess Royal said at Light Rail 91 in Manchester that public transport had to be seen as an improvement not just as an alternative to car use . |
| 24 | When he came out , Kahn was advancing the thesis that thermo-nuclear war had to be made into a practical proposition , because a totally disarmed world which renounced war was unbelievable . |
| 25 | He had , in fact , long cherished a secret fantasy in which he had joined the privileged ranks of Oxford undergraduates , racketed through three glorious years of academic and sexual triumphs , then gone on to lead the kind of effortlessly successful life from which working-class origins and a foreshortened education had in reality excluded him . |
| 26 | It was also , one must remember , a situation of continuing revolution which had no more ended in August 1945 than the French revolution had in July 1789 . |
| 27 | Sexual behaviour had in the course of the previous century become a symbol of much wider social features . |
| 28 | Remembering that all fresh water had to be stored on board , she turned it off while she soaped herself . |
| 29 | Before the 1967 Act the labs had a hard time of it , I can tell you , when all scientific evidence had to be given orally . |
| 30 | I am not precisely sure that I know what the right hon. Gentleman had in mind on sentencing policy , but I am happy to engage in exchanges outside . |