Example sentences of "and [noun] [noun pl] that had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the candles and storm lanterns that had been lit when Maggie left the house were now out so it was a dark journey home , the pair of them stumbling more than once . |
| 2 | Although the Wealden pattern suggests a density of population and activity far greater than used to be thought , it was the great coastal and scarpland estates that had the most highly organised agriculture . |
| 3 | The River Lea forming the eastern boundary of the metropolis provided good communication , ample supplies of water , and motive power for the mills , distilleries and calico industries that had settled in West Ham previously , and was to continue in that role . |
| 4 | She wore a dark grey hat taken from the store on her last day as owner , and that was 17 years ago , and a plain grey scarf round her throat , and leather gloves that had stood a long test of time . |
| 5 | From afar the appearance is one , not of a medieval fortress , but of an elegant , welcoming 18C palace , created when Maria Theresa commissioned her architect Nicolo Pacassi to regulate the conglomeration of medieval and Renaissance buildings that had accrued since the 9C . |
| 6 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |