Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those 363 hotel pools , 31% were found to have inadequate or no rescue equipment and 21% lacked or had insufficient pool surround fitments . |
| 2 | ( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . ) |
| 3 | Many other Jews had been enslaved or had run away . |
| 4 | Many users modify existing style sheets but this can bring along huge amounts of excess styling information that you either do n't want or had forgotten was in there . |
| 5 | Asked whether Mr McCrickard had jumped or had been pushed , Sir Nicholas stressed that the golden handshake was not ‘ hush money ’ , adding that the resignation had been mutually agreed following restructuring talks . |
| 6 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 7 | However , many of the securities supposedly backing the receipts did not exist or had not been purchased . |
| 8 | At the end of each tax year the DHSS takes the figure for your PAYE earnings and any credits , and calculates whether you have earned or had credits of more than the lower earnings limit . |
| 9 | Labour was no longer as efficient as machinery and new systems of agricultural organisation and , as a result , the peasantry ( who had owned or had common rights to work the land in their villages ) were gradually forced off the land to become wage labourers . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing much we did n't know or had n't guessed , apart from on the human side . |
| 11 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 12 | Normally amongst these is included any matter where the complainant has or had a right of appeal or right to go to the courts but has not used it . |
| 13 | No Director has or had during the period any material interest in any contract of significance to the Company 's business . |
| 14 | ‘ We would like to know what connection he has or had with the target of the original surveillance . ’ |
| 15 | Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case . |
| 16 | Merlini , three attempts were made to serve documents on a defendant in Italy , trying three different addresses and two different names ; on each occasion the defendant could not be located or had already moved on . |
| 17 | For this ‘ crime ’ , many of them were fined or had their goods confiscated , and others were imprisoned . |
| 18 | An amazing 98 of them stated they had lost inches from areas they had considered difficult to slim or had found impossible to reduce previously . |
| 19 | According to the court , it was not enough that the defendant deliberately did some act that had the effect , objectively assessed , of obstructing the police . |
| 20 | After this paper was completed , the UK government announced its conclusions from the consultation process that had followed publication of the Green Paper on Abuse of Market Power in November 1992 . |
| 21 | Yes , and he had n't even earned that had he ? |
| 22 | The two things were entirely unconnected , but if it is of importance to you then you 'll be pleased to know that had there been a test you would have passed it with straight As . ’ |
| 23 | No , from that figure of forty nine point nine five percent above S S A in nineteen ninety one we proposed a budge that had brought reductions year on year in that divergence of view . |
| 24 | The dhāmi picked up his long tuft of hair bound with silver rings that had been given to the god he embodied , and carefully wound it round his head again and covered it with his turban . |
| 25 | Detectives say that had Mr Hughes been the intended target it would have been much easier for loyalists to attack him at his Carryduff home in south Belfast . |
| 26 | Birds of paradise skins that had been prepared in the traditional way by natives of Papua New Guinea had had their legs removed ; for a considerable time even respectable scientists thought there might be a land where birds never settled . |
| 27 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 28 | Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | It found that had Costa Rica been consulted , its opinion would have been decisive , precisely the situation envisaged in 1858 . |
| 30 | It was night now and I turned for home , an awestruck child again , but joyful in the new world of understanding that had supplanted the dark , African fears . |