Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 2 | It is a matter of examining the contract to see whether the parties intended it to remain valid even if the goods were not in existence or had perished . |
| 3 | At that point were both of you behind the shield or had he stepped out from behind ? |
| 4 | After the president 's office had released his controversial decree without any reference to a ‘ special order ’ of rule — the provision that had most alarmed the legislature — observers said it was not clear whether he had revised the decree to meet the demands of the Constitutional Court and parliament or had exaggerated its harshness in his weekend speech . |
| 5 | Did he really have all that in the kitchen or had she sent out for it ? |
| 6 | As I have said before , the intellectual aristocracy of B.P. , who lived near the Park or had private transport , were able to take part in many home-made activities , such as the pleasure of organising and playing in small domestic chamber concerts , or chess , bridge , tennis , dancing , and amateur dramatics . |
| 7 | An article in the same issue explained that The Observer accepted assurances obtained at three different levels from the ‘ security authorities ’ that they had no evidence that Sir Harold or his private secretary , Lady Falkender , had been a target for KGB blackmail or had been ‘ a plant ’ . |
| 8 | He had once said that he did n't know whether his passion for water-power was a result of meanness or had some deeper Freudian significance . |
| 9 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 10 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |
| 11 | Professional development teachers rarely seemed to have been offered an induction programme or had their work regularly reviewed . |
| 12 | Patients were considered malnourished if they ( a ) had lost more than 10% usual body weight or had a serum albumin of <30 g/l ; and ( b ) also had a triceps skinfold thickness ( TSF ) of <90% adult reference range or a mid arm muscle circumference ( MAMC ) <90% reference range . |
| 13 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 14 | He could only hope that his Chelonian captors were n't engaged in fiendish torture or had n't cut off his legs or anything . |
| 15 | Eighteen patients had a skin biopsy or had a lesion removed , but no tests other than the usual histological examination were necessary . |
| 16 | At that time it was a kind of derelict brick structure , part of which er over there , the bit that 's at right angles to where we are now , was in a was a plumber 's showroom or had been and this part was actually derelict and had a demolition order on it . |
| 17 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 18 | Many schools declined to take part in the survey , however , for a variety of reasons : pressure of work , involvement in too many recent research projects and in some cases because , despite the LEA schedule , they had either not yet started on their review or had made only minimal progress . |
| 19 | In the very first experiments it became clear that , compared with ‘ control ’ birds that stayed in the dark or had been exposed simply to diffused overhead light , there was indeed increased synthesis of RNA in the roof region in the hours after training in birds which had been imprinted on the flashing light . |
| 20 | Nearly all were undertaking their own personal therapy or had done so in the past , and all were appropriately supervised . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Sad to say , the neighbourhood had been pulled down as ‘ a slum ’ in 1927 , a council action that had staggered the rest of Galway . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 … |
| 30 | 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 . " |