Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results were a setback for the SDP , which won most southern states in the local council elections of December 1990 but had since suffered from well-publicized internal feuding . |
| 2 | The Health Ministers of Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Cuba , Ecuador , Peru , Venezuela and Spain met in the Bolivian city of Sucre on April 20-23 to discuss possible joint action to stem the cholera epidemic which first broke out in Peru in late January [ see p. 38002 ] , and had since spread into neighbouring Brazil , Colombia , Chile and Ecuador ( but not as yet into Bolivia or Venezuela ) . |
| 3 | This was not a botanic garden in the modern sense of the word , but an area in which Bartram grew and propagated his comprehensive collection of current American ornamental plants for which he had arduously searched in unexplored country . |
| 4 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 5 | In His place , and with His power , something else had slowly congealed into transcendental existence . |
| 6 | However , the quantitative methods of the 1960s and 1970s had successfully dealt with large-set vowel-variables ( type 1 ) , quantifying them through the whole range ( or most of it ) in a single unilinear dimension of phonetic variation ( such as raising or backing ) . |
| 7 | Rather than producing a brave new economic world , the ECSC and its High Authority had constantly to wrestle with national objections and intransigence . |
| 8 | Standing between the two stone urns which Victoria had thoughtfully filled with pink geraniums and ivy the previous day , they made a pretty picture . |
| 9 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 10 | So , themes of nationalism , self-identity , industrial power , anti-intellectualism and xenophobia had all featured in working-class rhetoric , but in the postwar period they derived particular effectivity by being reworked into a unified discourse of labourism . |
| 11 | Within a few seconds they had all vanished into tiny , black holes . |
| 12 | He had a pious sense of his own importance and had always thought all these acts were directed at him , from which he had only escaped by good luck . |
| 13 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 14 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 15 | The application of all facilities under the KJHG to children of foreign nationality is explicitly legalized where previous legislation had only referred to German young people and children . |
| 16 | For social Darwinists like Herbert Spencer , evolutionary theory demonstrated scientifically what earlier social scientists had only grasped in moral terms . |
| 17 | So far he had only spoken to minor figures of the tragedy which befell Alexander III at Kinghorn . |
| 18 | Cox said that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , which had only looked at direct CFC warming effects , will now investigate the interactions . |
| 19 | Anglicans and Protestants now not only heard the first systematic teaching on the word of God in the Church ever formulated by a Catholic Council ( for Trent had only dealt with particular points at issue with the Reformers ) , but also admired it . |
| 20 | Karajan 's return to music-making and recording in 1946–7 was brought about with the help of Legge and , at much the same time , the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata , another man totally given over to music but whom the whirligig of public opinion had rightly exonerated despite extensive war work in both Italy and Germany in front of audiences of all manner of political persuasions . |
| 21 | Both punishment and compensation are necessary , but had better run on separate tracks . |
| 22 | This effort had obviously failed by early April and the attention of both Labour and Likud switched to the five-member " Liberal " faction which had defected from Likud in late February [ see p. 37303 ] . |
| 23 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 24 | Years before , he had suddenly exclaimed with bitter irony , ‘ You are quite the plush gentleman and I am the black sheep . ’ |
| 25 | That ship had suddenly disappeared in placid waters without trace . |
| 26 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 27 | Most SSDs had submitted their implementation plans to the DoH by last week 's deadline , although many said they had merely built on existing frameworks . |
| 28 | Management had merely passed from private hands into those of state appointees ; society continued to be divided between those who rule and those who must obey . |
| 29 | There was virtually no support in Sussex for the French Revolution when it broke out in 1789 , and the wars which followed produced a widespread patriotic fervour which was matched by an equal growth in exploitation and popular desperation as the twenty years of conflict had deeper affects on local economic life . |
| 30 | While the objections to this point of view are obvious — we can be led into all manner of belief by wishful thinking — it coincided with the beginnings of a general desire to re-open the discussion which Locke had apparently concluded for good and all . |