Example sentences of "[det] [Wh pn] had [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Whites had significantly more in privately rented accommodation ( confirming the census , Table 3 ) and had over half who had lived in their house less than three years , compared with about a quarter of Blacks and Asians ; they also had more than academic qualifications .
2 The announcement that the society lacked the cash to fund its operating costs surprised few who had followed that institution 's relatively quiet descent into insolvency .
3 The most enterprising and literate , those few who had travelled , in the army or otherwise , and the thin cream of village intelligenty ( agronomists and the like ) everywhere rose to the top in order to represent their less sophisticated brethren .
4 So I and the few who had escaped illness enjoyed the beautiful summer weather , with no lessons or discipline at all .
5 And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her .
6 After the War a few who had married in the island remained , but the majority returned to Gibraltar .
7 With Sycorax , the islanders were more successful in administering the proper rites , for during the treaty negotiations that followed the battle , her eldest daughter 's husband , who had been wounded in the foot but survived , pleaded for the bodies of the few who had died inside the stockade .
8 Surprisingly , that is , for mainstream economists , who had assumed that Keynesian economic management would abolish such crashes , but without surprise for the few who had remembered Kondratiev 's ideas .
9 part of the process of universal involvement in recognition of Artai as Lord of the Earth now necessitated the removal of the Dragon Throne — a solid piece of carving of the weight of seven thousand diram — with its occupant from the top of the plinth down to the concourse from whence it was destined to be borne on a processional route on the shoulders of teams of men of every degree in the Khanate , most of whom had been selected by lot , although there were a few who had paid out considerable sums in gold koban for the privilege of inclusion .
10 Some who had gone to Israel had been involved in protests from July 1985 onwards against the ruling of the Chief Rabbinate that they should undertake a " formal " conversion to Judaism [ see p. 34008 ] .
11 However , a spokeswoman for the RIR said these figures included some who had transferred to full-time duties .
12 He clearly had friends in high places , as he was able to take on prominent people who had been purged after 1968 and even some who had suffered after the takeover of 1948 .
13 In contrast was his finding that amongst the prisoners of San Quentin jail , there were some who had achieved fulfilment .
14 The survey included people receiving ICA , some who had stopped receiving ICA three to twelve months previously , and others who had been refused the allowance .
15 Some who had tried to steal food from farms behind the Serb lines less than half a mile away had been shot dead .
16 Some who had driven over the Berwyns insisted that they had had to put their headlights on , and this in the middle of a July day .
17 Some who had failed to get out of the way in time bore the scars like war wounds or medals which they paraded for public admiration .
18 I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) .
19 At the beginning of the century , it was generally held that , in the absence of any contractual or fiduciary relationship , there was no liability for a negligent misrepresentation made by one person to another who had incurred loss by acting on it .
20 Mrs Claudio Abado was another who had worked hard towards making the evening a success , but was unable to be present .
21 Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) .
22 He was a liberal conservative gentleman from a line of such who had cultivated their patch of Wiltshire since one of the first gentrifications four centuries previously .
23 Although , as an exercise against Republican democracy , the military rising of 18 July 1936 had had the backing of all who had sympathized with the Nationalist cause , there were many who felt that the result of the war — a military dictatorship — was not what they had intended .
24 The Chairman then brought the Meeting to a close with thanks to all who had attended and an expression of hope that with the support of an enthusiastic and growing membership the Society would continue to prosper during the coming year .
25 Mr Colin Appleyard , of Thornaby and Yarm Rotary , thanked all who had made the journey possible .
26 It was he after all who had led her to arrest Taczek , he who had indirectly led her into the chief superintendent 's office that morning to have her face sprayed with warm saliva .
27 The leader of the rebels , Imam Yasin Abu Bakr , demanded Robinson 's resignation , the establishment of a coalition interim government ( including himself ) , the holding of national elections within 90 days and an amnesty for all who had participated in the coup .
28 Prime Minister Atef Sidki said on Oct. 31 that all who had lost their homes in the Cairo earthquake [ see pp. 39167-68 ] would be rehoused by the end of November .
29 While ‘ Bonnie Prince Charlie ’ was continuing his wanderings Cumberland was inflicting a fearful vengeance on all who had supported him .
30 All who had gone to help the stricken townsfolk mixed with those who had lived through the disaster , and were present to mourn and pay a last tribute to their relatives , friends and neighbours , whose coffins , borne by men of the Fire Service , they now followed .
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