Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time- asymmetry thus implies that while the terrain was undergoing upheaval new types of animal arose through a feedback process , because they needed the land for further food , and because the waxing and waning ice-ages together with ( or as a result of ) the early breakup and reformation of the continents often had major and fatal consequences for marine and land faunas . |
| 2 | What little the labourers often had they sought to preserve , supported frequently by local tradesmen and small farmers who feared the end of their contracts with the parish overseers . |
| 3 | One day he reported that the defence had claimed that partisan warfare was contrary to the Hague Convention , that the Germans therefore had every right to take reprisals against the partisans , and that any excesses on their part were explained if not justified by their horror of what the partisans did . |
| 4 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 5 | He could not have been more misguided , for in the sector he had chosen to attack the Germans now had 43 divisions and the French only slightly more : a totally inadequate margin with which to launch an offensive . |
| 6 | And the birds probably had their origin in a particular group of dinosaurs . |
| 7 | One notable exception to the bland , sanitised image-building that marks many a sporting biography is Jonathan , the story of perhaps the most gifted Welsh fly-half the Lions never had . |
| 8 | In August , when the builders still had not started work , I decided to move in September , ready or not . |
| 9 | The employers clearly had strong reservations . |
| 10 | The Iranians already had a considerable religious heritage and it is difficult to decide how much of Zoroastrianism is due to the reforms introduced by Zarathustra . |
| 11 | Ulster 's Security Minister , John Cope says the teenagers only had to stop . |
| 12 | Maggie 's gaze was locked onto her younger sister 's agonized eyes , then the eyes too had gone . |
| 13 | The songs too had jokier titles : Down Where the Cross-Eyed Claras Grow , I 'm the Good Man that Was so Hard to Find . |
| 14 | The Norwegians certainly had the measure of this splendid music , each player contributing a full quota to a very relaxed and very rewarding performance , with only the damping effect of the Elmwood Hall 's heavy window curtains a minus factor . |
| 15 | The position of the pomeshchiks certainly had its own weaknesses . |
| 16 | Their owners were also beginning to notice what was going on and commented on the changes that were making their business more difficult , for the books often had no dispersal markings on them . |
| 17 | That it did n't cost England more dearly was due to the fact that the Scots simply had n't planned for such a generous return and were consequently playing the wrong strategy . |
| 18 | The plot in any ‘ Carry On ’ film was never terribly important , not when there were the opportunities to give words double meanings that even the scriptwriters sometimes had n't thought of . |
| 19 | Apart from the AS-4 Kitchen and the AS-6 Kingfish , both suitable for use with the Tu-22 and Tu-16 , the Iraqis also had a number of surface/surface systems , the Scud-B , the Frog-7 and the SS-12 . |
| 20 | The response of the defendants then had to be looked at . |
| 21 | At the end of the process , the 13 houses , once inhabited by 200 families , their numbers swollen to 1,000 people by transients who made their way in and slept on the stairways at night , were reduced to lodging 300 or 400 people in 108 rooms , only a quarter of whom were the original tenants , although the rents apparently had not been raised . |
| 22 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 23 | The day 's individual performance came striker Gary MacDonald , who scored all four of his side 's goals in their 4–1 home win Blue Mark Outterside gave Blue Star the lead after six minutes , but the visitors then had Micky Robinson sent off for dangerous play . |
| 24 | The Elves now had a secure foothold to bring the rest of their army ashore . |
| 25 | The system of tripartisme ( three-party co-operation ) had survived the strains of devising a constitution and the elections to a National Assembly in November showed that stable government would continue to rely on the main parties working together : the Communists now had 29 per cent of the vote , the Christian Democrats 26 per cent and the Socialists 18 per cent . |
| 26 | The judges clearly had a predilection for this style , the Second Empire mode as Hitchcock calls it , as out of the total of fourteen prizes for the offices , seven were awarded to designs in this style , including the first and second in each class . |
| 27 | The judges now had to hear nearly as many applications as they heard appeals . |
| 28 | When first designated , the areas already had a population of 945,000 ; now they contain rather more than 2 millions . |
| 29 | Early the following morning a British soldier who had been in the orphanage was admitted to the hospital suffering from a high fever , so the carabinieri still had one English prisoner to guard . |
| 30 | He cites the example shown by Viscount Montgomery in World War N. Laing , who fought under the famous military leader , recalls that the troops always had great confidence in him because he was very visible . |