Example sentences of "[noun] that had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expelled from the Commons as a result of giving false statements , he was returned unopposed in 1734 for Great Grimsby , a venal borough that had elected other disreputable financiers and in which Sutton owned considerable property . |
| 2 | There have been many Western and Soviet studies of religious belief per se , and of the interaction in Soviet history between an atheist regime and a highly religious peasantry , but scant reference is made to socio-economic views and actions derived from religion that had ultimate political repercussions . |
| 3 | The moral values of the Protestant religion that had fuelled Bacon 's belief that science would enable humankind to dominate Nature were reformulated , not abandoned . |
| 4 | Sad to say , the neighbourhood had been pulled down as ‘ a slum ’ in 1927 , a council action that had staggered the rest of Galway . |
| 5 | The conscious intent , and the time taken to perform an action that had clear symbolic content , drew our attention and created an out-of-the-ordinary impression . |
| 6 | That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period . |
| 7 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 8 | She told Lucien how much the northerners resented the Ixmaritian tithes , and how in some cases people had shed their blood to resist them , a course of action that had been doomed to failure . |
| 9 | At the same time , a nasty backward glance , a creeping suspicion suggested a consultation with Anderson might have been a wise idea before taking the practical action that had ended in such discouraging disaster … |
| 10 | He stated : " Haughey had retained all but one of the tapes I gave him , and at no stage indicated disapproval of the action that had been taken . " |
| 11 | The remedial action that had to be taken was painful in the extreme but it saved ICI Fibres and put it in a position of strength for the future . |
| 12 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |
| 13 | The confounding factors were patients ' characteristics that had been shown to be predictive of increased perinatal risk . |
| 14 | Quite the opposite to the calm peacefulness that had existed in Heymouth prior to the flood . |
| 15 | The emission standards were set without regard to the constraints of technological or economic feasibility that had previously influenced policy-making . |
| 16 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 17 | Of course he had asked her if she was quite certain and she said she was , quite certain , but now he wondered if it was mere association that had made her agree , association and horror . |
| 18 | Formulation of Labour Government policies to support the Third Pillar — the projection and protection of British interests overseas — needed least reorientation of traditional British military thinking that had evolved from three centuries of global geo-political experience . |
| 19 | The possibility of publication was raised by Thorneycroft who suggested not only that it would demonstrate the thinking that had been done , but tactically that it would ‘ in some degree pre-empt any White Paper which the Socialists may be thinking of producing based on Longford ’ . |
| 20 | I have run ahead of chronology however and in particular of the First World War , which the peoples that had entered it as parts of the Empire ended as free-standing independent nations . |
| 21 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
| 22 | Wild exultation at having him so close made sure her momentary pain was no more than that , as he slipped easily into the rhythm that had her half sobbing with delight until his voice joined her own . |
| 23 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 24 | Too much apple pie ’ , kicked its way into many ears that had previously been unaware of the band 's existence . |
| 25 | He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy . |
| 26 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 27 | In order to verify his electrical recording findings , Thompson made lesions in the cerebellums of animals that had learned the conditioned eyeblink response , Rabbits that learned with their left eye and had lesions made to the left half of their cerebellum no longer blinked when they heard the tone but continued to blink to the puff of air . |
| 28 | But animals that had received NGF as well lost fewer cells than those that had not . |
| 29 | More than a hundred years of systematic captivity had created a whole new genus , animals that had none of the skills and few of the desires of a wild habitat . |
| 30 | No degranulation was noted in either transection or resection animals that had been treated with CR-1409 , but incipient vacuolation of the rough endoplasmic reticulum was a feature of all CR-1409 treated tissues as well as those of the PSBR group ( Fig 8 ) . |