Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 32 | This was undertaken by one of the more experienced older women who had little understanding of possible complications . |
| 33 | Over a thousand students left their dormitories and protested outside the campus administrative building by putting up posters and calling for the resignation of key officials who had little understanding or sympathy with their plight . |
| 34 | Odo 's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practical virtues . |
| 35 | This from a man who had little interest in the event when he went up to Magdalene College last autumn to study transport and marketing — and the Boat Race is a triumph of both these days . |
| 36 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 37 | They met with little armed resistance ( which must have been a relief to Louis , who had little confidence in his own military skill ) , and gained considerable incidental profit : the king 's person was seen in an area unvisited since the reign of Louis IV ; the counts of Nevers , Chalon , and Mâcon were brought to heel ; Burgundian lords appealed for the king 's mediation in their quarrels ( he also sought theirs ) ; the count of Forez , hitherto only a vassal of the Emperor , declared his most important castles to be held as fief of the crown of France , the first step in the integration of Forez into the French realm . |
| 38 | Nearly all the participants described in these accounts were male and nearly all the studies were undertaken by male sociologists who had some difficulty communicating with young women . |
| 39 | The construction and development industry is best known for this and there were notable scandals in the 1970s which linked architects ( such as John Poulson ) , who were highly dependent on local authority orders , to key local politicians ( such as T. Dan Smith ) , who had some influence over their allocation . |
| 40 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
| 41 | We have lost capacity , skills and people who had some faith in the Government 's processes . |
| 42 | From now on the peasants must offer to the Keepers a tithe of more mature , and physically intact , sons and daughters who had some pretence to comeliness . |
| 43 | Police had been called to Moreton Valence by neighbours , who had some sympathy for the travellers as well as the police . |
| 44 | Now , was it you Lyn who had some statistics some saying er , what proportion |
| 45 | Similarly , one of our members who had some experience with social services is in the process of opening a Day Care Centre for the housebound . |
| 46 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 47 | It was in the nature of a goodwill invitation , nothing more , none of us realising that he was the one man in Punta Arenas who had some idea of why an old wooden-walled East Indiaman , built like a frigate , should have been reconditioned and brought south by the Argentine Navy during the war . |
| 48 | Opposite me was a woman called Jasminder ( Jazzy for short ) who had some choice anecdotes , such as the one about being buried alive for a couple of days by Hopi Indians as part of an initiation ritual . |
| 49 | Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal |
| 50 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 51 | Really I suppose much the same way as those parents whom we interviewed who had some sort of educational knowledge or understanding of their own , since we 're both involved in education . |
| 52 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 53 | But Parks also took memorable portraits for Harpers Bazaar of subjects such as the surrealist patron Edward James , and of Noël Coward , who had some words of advice for the young photographer . |
| 54 | Everywhere you went , you 'd meet a mate who had some gear . |
| 55 | Two of his brothers became professional artists , and Gerard ( he did not use his middle name ) , who had some talent at drawing , toyed with the idea of being a painter before wisely settling on his poetic bent . |
| 56 | ‘ Virtually anyone who had some flannels was in contention for a first-team place as Eric Hollies , Tom Dollery , Ken Taylor , Bill Fantham and myself were the only prewar survivors . |
| 57 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 58 | His lips were parched and cracked and one of the miners who had some sandwiches rubbed the butter from the bread on to John 's lips to soothe them . |
| 59 | If she mentioned his name in any circle , however jaded it was by gossip , there was always somebody who had some titbit about him . |
| 60 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |