Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found that about two-thirds of the women whom she studied had relied upon female kin at some stage , and that most of the support which they received was child care , coming principally from mothers and mothers-in-law , but also sisters , sisters-in-law , aunts and grandmothers . |
| 2 | This band was expanded by the World Administrative Radio Conference in 1979 to extend from 88 to 108 MHz — previously it had stopped at 100 MHz . |
| 3 | At follow up in 1989 group means derived from the last three readings available for all hypertensives had fallen to 148/88 mm Hg for men and 145/86 mm Hg for women ( all changes p<0.001 ) . |
| 4 | Company profits had fallen by 40 pc this year . |
| 5 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |
| 6 | Her weight had dropped from 41.7 kg. at the beginning of May to 36.75 kg. on 28 June . |
| 7 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 8 | Such were the main groups of Cossacks and anti-Tito Yugoslavs who had come into 5 Corps hands by 12 May . |
| 9 | We were the most powerful country in the world and the overwhelming fact was that astonishing amounts of money had come into ordinary people 's homes . |
| 10 | Reports on May 5 said that US troops had come within 2 km of the town of Dahuk , south of the " safe havens " zone . |
| 11 | They had also confirmed that the affair with David Parkin had been a public secret on the programme for several months , and that Nicola had whispered to several people that she had been promised Jane Pargeter 's job by Blufton . |
| 12 | He assumed the mural was being discarded and took it to his studio , hoping to repair and perhaps eventually sell it , as he had done with other works from that period . |
| 13 | Explaining that the parish precept had risen to 8 percent less than the 11–1/2 percent predicted for many other councils , David Clark , finance and general purposes chairman , was questioned by Col. John Dabson . |
| 14 | Norms of 12–16 fps had risen to 20 fps by the 1920s , and in effect to 24 fps ( at least in projection ) by the time the coming of sound made standardization compulsory . |
| 15 | It would have gone on to say , , that cases of food poisoning had risen by fifty percent , and then Mr Chadwick saying , ‘ It 's likely we 're receiving more notifications . ’ |
| 16 | That commodities such as simple sardine or anchovy butter which we had hitherto regarded as sandwich fillings , egg dishes which belonged to the breakfast table , the bed-sitting room or the night club , and little hot dishes which were ordinary English family supper savouries were valuable resources which could be quite differently deployed and offered as party dishes were ideas which had occurred to few people in pre-Boulestin days : |
| 17 | The Left Book Club had appealed to such people . |
| 18 | They talked freely together about everything , about her sad life , her worries , her bad health , about how foul the world was , and it was more illuminating than plenty of conversations he had had with educated folk . |
| 19 | Comprehensivization , he muttered to himself , seemed to have had much the same effect on the middle-middle class in England as racial integration in schools had had on similar people in the States . |
| 20 | Mr Hamilton also took a swipe at the defence select committee 's report which had called for all infantry battalion amalgamations , including merger of four Scottish regiments , to be cancelled . |
| 21 | It had reduced to 18 mph on impact and the driver had reacted very quickly . |
| 22 | The recording started with the news-reader announcing that Harriet Shakespeare had replied to Free People 's demands . |
| 23 | One question which was raised was whether the term illegal entrant could cover a person who had obtained leave to enter by deception or fraud , as well as a person who had entered by clandestine means . |
| 24 | Included among those who had surrendered to 5 Corps by 12 May were various groups of Yugoslavs . |
| 25 | Someone in the Works and Buildings Department , haunted by the thought of these urinals gushing pointlessly at regular intervals all through the hours of darkness , Sundays and public holidays , had hit on this means of reducing the University 's water rate . |
| 26 | Abdominal girth measured 97 cm and the radiographic diameter of the distal transverse colon had increased to 11.5 cm . |
| 27 | Abdominal girth had not changed but a repeat plain abdominal film showed the radiographic diameter of the distal transverse colon had increased to 11.5 cm . |
| 28 | Sam had worked with disabled people to gain his award , and helped youngsters in the Combined Cadet Force . |
| 29 | In the dawn , before the host came home , he would surely be presented at last with one window into his father 's spirit , and add to the many aspects of Master Harry he had borrowed from other people one at least which was his own . |
| 30 | In fact , the " Old Men " had sunk to 50 ft. or so at its southern end , by the beck . |