Example sentences of "[noun sg] often had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she joined me-after we 'd met while she was still an undercover FedPol investigator — she sternly announced that she was coming into the firm for the sake of the money , and because the job offered interest and challenge without the lethal risks that a FedPol agent often had to run . |
| 2 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 3 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 4 | However , working class wives living on the new housing estates of the inter-war period often had little but housework to occupy their days and , like many suburban middle class wives , tended to lead extremely isolated lives . |
| 5 | The nationalist leader often had to invent a unifying culture as well as lead . |
| 6 | The Wealden clays supported a richer , more diverse agriculture than the Hastings Beds formation , where impoverished sandy soils combined with abrupt contours largely restricted farming to stock keeping , and grain often had to be brought from elsewhere . |
| 7 | However , the farmer 's wife often had to deal on her own with callers and only 15% felt able to cope . |
| 8 | Outside his own domain ( the Ile-de-France ) the king often had no more than powers of general protection . |
| 9 | Helicopters were used to provide an airborne relay station but if they were shot down or ran out of fuel , soldiers on the ground often had to resort to the GPO telephone system . |
| 10 | Yet it is probably fair to suggest that few people could have been immune from the implications of the party struggle at Westminster , since decisions taken by the central government often had a direct affect on ordinary people 's lives , and few people could have avoided being exposed to the political controversies of the day through the various media of propaganda . |
| 11 | The ornithischia often had bony beaks at the front with teeth at the sides and back of the jaws . |
| 12 | For anthropological studies of primitive societies the field worker of the past often had no written sources of information to call upon at all . |
| 13 | As Loudon later comments , cottages built like this in a continuous row often had many of the inconveniences and nuisances of impoverished back streets in a country town . |
| 14 | The need to pay ransoms could be ruinous since , to raise the cash required , land often had to be sold . |
| 15 | Patients with persistent pain after gastric surgery often had several symptoms ( Tables I and II ) . |
| 16 | In practice , counts no doubt often had local boni homines in their pockets . |
| 17 | In both a change of ruler or minister often had drastic repercussions , particularly on the conduct of foreign policy . |
| 18 | In addition to this the men who were passing through the camp after the first year often had a different view of the war from those who had been there since before the fall of France . |
| 19 | Much of the game was taken up with mauls which an alert French referee often had to turn into scrums . |
| 20 | The son of another Superintendent has told how he and his mother often had to remove the leggings and gaiters from his father when he arrived home soaking wet and utterly stiff and weary after cycling several miles to and from a meeting on a winter night . |