Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , such potent compounds had still to be assessed in animals , before they could be used in patients . |
| 2 | His assassination was predictable , although how the murderer passed by the android security guards had yet to be explained . |
| 3 | When either 2 or 6 words had also to be held in memory then reaction times for both hemispheres improved but more so for the left hemisphere than for the right hemisphere , leading to a RVF superiority . |
| 4 | Although lacking a formal programme , Fujimori had rejected " shock " adjustments at a time when he claimed that the buying power of the majority of people had been halved over the previous year and that the needs of the poorest sectors had still to be met . |
| 5 | The best trainees and established dealers had little beyond brief academic demands made on them in the early days . |
| 6 | Buyers had still to be found for the other two shipyards . |
| 7 | It appeared that , among the juveniles , Asians had more cautions , and among the adults Asians had more with ‘ no further action . ’ |
| 8 | This meant that concepts and ideas had continually to be tested against specific problems confronted in particular situations . |
| 9 | Jurors had only to be ‘ of sufficient intelligence and respectability ’ , but in 1 868 a financial test was instituted in order to exclude low-status white-collar workers . |
| 10 | The MPRP leader , President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , stated afterwards that efforts had now to be made to promote further democratization and to overcome the current economic crisis . |
| 11 | But the matter of priorities had still to be settled and Ho threw his weight unmistakably behind the primacy of colonial revolution . |
| 12 | This declaration was approved by the National Assembly on Jan. 15 , but its provisions had yet to be enshrined in law . |
| 13 | The king-duke 's rights had therefore to be defended by his proctors at Paris and , above all , by the seneschals of Aquitaine themselves . |
| 14 | These were planned for later in the year , although dates had yet to be announced . |
| 15 | Due to the continuing grave security situation in Transcaucasia dates had still to be set for local soviet and republican Supreme Soviet elections in Azerbaijan . |
| 16 | If anything , these studies had more in common with the avowedly anti-correctionalist ‘ labelling ’ theories of the later 1960s . |
| 17 | When this unlikely idea was first launched in England and Canada , the exact pattern of the past few million years of pole reversals had yet to be charted . |
| 18 | She felt no particular guilt : merely that marriage was a kind of old-fashioned scale : a tray on either side in which the fors and againsts had somehow to be kept in balance , and that extramarital sex had sometimes to be heaped on one side just to keep it steady because indefinable things were piling on the other . |
| 19 | Government forces had constantly to be at hand . |
| 20 | However , there were two big differences : Whites had more in privately rented accommodation and had lived there for a shorter time ; these areas contained only 6 per cent . |
| 21 | We found that the Blacks had more unemployed than Asians and Whites , and of those who were employed Whites had less in semi- and unskilled jobs . |
| 22 | Nasrallah argued that those parties calling for a boycott of the elections had nevertheless in 1982 participated in the presidential elections which , he said , had been held " under Israeli guns " . |
| 23 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 24 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 25 | The difference was that inequality was more pronounced in the Midland one , where the two top men had upwards of £1,000 apiece , in contrast to Exeter , where the highest was £300 , and altogether there were twenty-nine three-figure fortunes compared with just twenty in Coventry ( see Table 2.10 ) . |
| 26 | Full official results had yet to be released . |
| 27 | However , by August 1991 proposals for general privatization measures had yet to be agreed by parliament . |
| 28 | Negotiations had yet to be concluded with the trade unions as to the timing of the redundancies , but Ms Kennedy quickly found another job . |
| 29 | The funeral liturgy included a mass for the dead , but to take full advantage of the memorial rite , masses had also to be sung on the third , seventh and thirtieth days following burial and , to complete the calendar of commemoration , the ‘ obit ’ : a mass sung on the first anniversary of the death . |
| 30 | To protect the ‘ genuine ’ third party , the consent of the member States had also to be brought to the notice of the other party to the treaty , a non-member of the organisation . |