Example sentences of "[n mass] that had " in BNC.

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1 The land for the strip had not even become available , Keker reminded him , until January 1986 , and the only aircraft that had ever landed there had stuck in the mud ; but North could not be persuaded that his memo was ‘ incompatible with the realities of things ’ .
2 In a memo ( signature illegible ) to the assistant chief of naval staff dated two months after the sinking of the Bismarck , the writer said that it had ‘ unofficially ’ come to his notice that an Ensign Smith of the U S Navy was in the Catalina aircraft that had resighted the Bismarck , then en route to Brest , two days after British naval forces had lost contact with her ; and that an Ensign Rinehart was in another searching Catalina .
3 The ultimate parting shot from an ungrateful aircraft that had enjoyed every care and attention .
4 It arranged with the manufacturers that he would be allowed to see technical data that had been carefully doctored to include major errors .
5 In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so .
6 A host of aetiological hypotheses has been formed , which have frequently been untestable and based on data that had been unsystematically selected or of dubious validity ( Rosenthal , 1968 ) .
7 And he ran full speed down the hill , by-passing the bodies of Rebel and the lamb and scattering the sheep that had almost settled again .
8 RUSTLERS will get the trots if they eat two stolen sheep that had just been given de-worming chemicals , Northumberland police warned .
9 It was not so much the death of a sheep that had shocked her .
10 ‘ Ah well , ’ said Rory , slowing to avoid a pair of sheep that had come dribbling across the road .
11 So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter .
12 Well it 's alright , I mean if it was the chassis that had gone
13 Sir Henry Norris was an archetype of the old-style football club chairman , combining a slight knowledge of the game with a great deal of money to put into it , and he fitted the popular image with a walrus moustache that quivered when he was angry , and a pince-nez that had the disconcerting effect of partially obscuring the direction of his gaze .
14 They had been lured miles into the hills by reports of a distant loch , full of superb fish that had n't seen artificial fly or an angler for years .
15 was a fish that had jumped too far from the water .
16 Many had been the voyages of discovery she had made in this — the most powerful spacecraft that had never been built , and never will be .
17 There were so many people that had become involved in this now enormous creature that resided in Beckenham called Growth .
18 For Bridgnorth had made me resolve that I would never more go among a people that had been hardened in unprofitableness under an awakening ministry …
19 And by ‘ them ’ he meant the English who identified with a country and a people that had never accepted them .
20 Thumbs up to the poor people that had to clean it up .
21 I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it .
22 People that had once been poor , often virtually on the breadline , were now much more elegantly dressed and had achieved a far higher standard of living .
23 It was drawing room for people that had them .
24 Alison was up the steps and away , lost in the press of people that had filled the bar since they 'd come in .
25 They were another set of people that had it .
26 Er and , and the people that had a regular job , now there was one next door to us .
27 And all the people that had stallions South been left in Orkney all Winter somebody had kept them .
28 The third Duma consisted of people that had been arranged by the Tsar .
29 So these people that had little private shops in them days did well because when the people came to the lodges it all the commodities were bought to as well as them .
30 It was on er channel four I think it was and it was all about these people that had been , you know encouraged to buy this house and then repossessed .
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