Example sentences of "that [noun] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The verdict was that Horsley had about as clean a bill of health as it was possible for a real , live capitalist to have . |
| 2 | Extending this aim meant that signs had to be invented when no obvious word — sign equivalent existed . |
| 3 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 4 | The longer the dispute continued the more officialdom in Scottish education recognized that support had to be provided . |
| 5 | Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law . |
| 6 | Subsequently , the owner claimed damages from Veitchi , claiming that Veitchi had through their negligence laid the floor badly . |
| 7 | It became obvious that pushy-aggression had to be replaced by calm , reassurance , and bribery . |
| 8 | Were these the woods , I wondered , that Kingsley had in mind when he wrote of Tom 's escape from Ellie 's little white bedroom ? |
| 9 | This stipulated that products had to be fit for their purpose and meet standards of appearance and finish being free from minor defects as well as safe and durable . |
| 10 | The Church throughout the world received orders and instructions which it obeyed willingly enough , though sometimes it regretted that there were no arrangements for dialogue and that it had not been invited to collaborate ; the result was that unity had to be lived out in passive acceptance rather than celebrated in fraternity ( Pensiamo al Concilio 9 ; see Hebblethwaite , 1984 , p. 409 ) . |
| 11 | Mrs Castle 's contribution to this cornucopia of political wisdom and strategic insight was that policies had to be put in their philosophical context to win consent . |
| 12 | Zak cursed and said that Pierre had in fact been going to knock Raoul to the ground at a slightly later rime , and now that would have to be changed . |
| 13 | She wished that Fernando had in fact made fiery , passionate and glorious love to her on that blanket , because at least her body would have been sated and that would have been something at the very least . |
| 14 | In the earlier regime it was accepted that rules had to be general to some extent , and open to change to allow for adaptation to changing circumstances . |
| 15 | Little did he know then , but he had thrown away probably the last good chance that Germany had of winning the war . |
| 16 | Even so the sum of money Minton had donated was so large that drinkers had to be brought in from the street . |
| 17 | Longman did particularly well in the U K , although coeternal markets were difficult and er , sales in the schools markets in er , North America was hard going for Addison Wesley , with U S physical problems restricting the , amou money that schools had to er , had to use . |
| 18 | It seems that David had at first great difficulty in making his way with the public , and was several times unsuccessful in his efforts after fame . |
| 19 | These appear to be the assumptions that Musgrave had in mind : ‘ that the size distribution of income originating in various industries is the same [ or ] there is a random relationship between the distributional origin of expenditures on any particular product and the distributional destination of factor payments ’ ( Musgrave , et al. , 1964 , p. 201 ) . |
| 20 | Press reports noted that Mugabe had during the March 1990 general election campaign promised public-sector pay increases and salary restructuring , but that senior staff had been the main beneficiaries . |
| 21 | Within two days of the discovery that funds had in fact been diverted , Poindexter was obliged to resign ; North was fired ; and the open-mouthed press descended like locusts . |
| 22 | He was reported to have said that Pakistan had in 1991 frozen production of highly enriched uranium , meeting one of the US demands , but would only destroy its weapons cores if India did the same . |
| 23 | On the one hand they doubted whether peasants should receive land as well as personal freedom ; on the other they felt that emancipation had to be introduced gradually , at different times in different places . |
| 24 | Eva knew from her conversations with the villagers the high hopes that parents had for their children . |
| 25 | The assurance followed the disclosure on Jan. 21 that Kazakhstan had in December 1991 test-fired a multi-warhead ICBM in violation of the START . |
| 26 | Cos I 've got the ones that Budgie had like that . |
| 27 | The most important element was the difficulty that reformers had in distinguishing between their desire to protect the young girls who were the objects of their concern and their desire to control them . |
| 28 | IBM and the relevant Japanese ministry could argue that IBM had in practice earned ‘ domestic ’ status . |
| 29 | The G-3 Presidents , in their final communiqué , emphasized that Cuba had to be completely re-integrated into Latin America . |
| 30 | Suppose that B had in June accepted S 's repudiation of the contract . |