Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1930s the UGT railway union was in the vanguard of the Spanish labour movement and had some 49,000 members . |
| 2 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 3 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
| 4 | London authorities accounted for nearly half the English rent arrears and had eight of the ten worst collection records . |
| 5 | For example , and the General Secretary was giving examples yesterday so I 'm entitled to do one as well , for example , Islington Council , where a direct Labour organization that had successfully survived and grown through the worst of the Thatcher years and the worst of the Thatcher attack on public services has now fallen victim to a combination of a weak and corrupt Labour Council and an incompetent senior management . |
| 6 | One authority in the Brazilian Mineral Institute claimed that ‘ Congress felt that foreign mining companies that had already made huge investments here should be differentiated from newly arrived companies ’ . |
| 7 | The newspaper slowly unfolded itself on the mat , flopping open to reveal some glossy law magazine that had been placed inside . |
| 8 | The links between England and Scotland that had held the nation together for nearly 300 years would be endangered by a premature move to Scottish home rule that had not been thoroughly debated , Mr Major said yesterday . |
| 9 | THE LINKS between England and Scotland that had held the nation together for nearly 300 years would be endangered by a premature move to Scottish home rule that had not been thoroughly debated , Mr Major said yesterday . |
| 10 | It was a male preserve , consecrated to sport , where guns were cleaned after a day 's shooting and guests would be shown valuable old museum pieces that had been used by earlier Arbuthnots . |
| 11 | Lipset and Bendix ( 1959 ) , for example , analysed the results of social mobility research that had been carried out in nine different industrialized societies . |
| 12 | The War Crimes Bill , which provided a legal framework for the prosecution of suspected war criminals and had been rejected by the House of Lords in June 1990 [ see p. 37889 ] , was reintroduced in March 1991 and again effectively rejected by the Lords on April 26 . |
| 13 | In March 1947 , the Government announced its intention to round off the social service provision that had been made by the National Insurance and National Health Service Acts of 1946 , by introducing legislation to break up the poor law , and to introduce a comprehensive system of national assistance . |
| 14 | They got ashore dry shod — as they described those landings in which you do not get your feet wet — but in these harsh conditions , Lieutenant Arthur Komrower suffered severe back and leg injuries when he was crushed between a rock and the 10-ton assault craft that had been on fire . |
| 15 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
| 16 | Forming the chord of this arc lay the so-called Oosttaverne Line , some 4km/2½mls in length the German trench system that had been selected as the final objective of Plumer 's attack . |
| 17 | I ATTENDED four of the evening sessions of this year 's Great British Beer Festival and had a great time — my thanks to all those who worked so hard to make it such a success . |
| 18 | The breed originated from the Jutland Black Pied , which was known a century ago as a hardier but less productive type of the black pied lowland group and had been bred in Denmark for a very long time . |
| 19 | In the years immediately following the war , manufacturers could sell all the machines they wanted using the old point-to-point wiring and had no need to trouble themselves with anything better . |
| 20 | He said all the evidence of independent accountants pointed to the fact that Langbaurgh was not a high spending authority and had suffered tremendously by the loss of its industrial rate . |
| 21 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 22 | The nineteen ports owned by the British Transport Docks Board were basically old railway ports and had come into Government control with the nationalization of the railways in 1946 . |
| 23 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 24 | The Luna Café on Soviet Boulevard faces the gardens and the old Liberation monument that had been built there several régimes back and — so it is said — was something of a milestone in municipal graft . |
| 25 | At last Finnan stopped before a high stone house that had as its sign a serpent twisted round a staff . |
| 26 | The Reich 's rearmament programme and the continued high level of subsidy to Danzig had caused a severe drain on German gold reserves and had upset the balance of payments . |
| 27 | The next room was a garbagey mess of ripped packaging and stacked video cases , and old display material that had been slung in and forgotten . |
| 28 | She had been born a male , but had later undergone sexual conversion surgery and had lived as a woman for eighteen years . |
| 29 | Preston 's experience was in many ways typical of the other old market towns that had been overwhelmed by the cotton industry . |
| 30 | At school he had been an ace rugby player and had become a big burly man . |