Example sentences of "[coord] had [noun] " in BNC.

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1 President , Congress , , London Region , moving Resolution three five O. Congress , I 'm sure everybody here has heard of , or had experience of , the changes taking place in the terms of our employment .
2 Only 51 per cent of the girls over 16 had attempted to avoid pregnancy ; others thought that they could not become pregnant because they were too young or had sex too infrequently .
3 had found that plough carriers mounted on one of the bogies tended to throw the ploughs about , particularly if the pony wheels were worn or had flats .
4 Or had Ash finally floundered in his inability to express his sense of urgency ?
5 A substantial number of these students have either been speakers of RP or had accents only slightly different from it , and their usual reaction to being told to use for the vowel at the end of ‘ easy ’ , ‘ busy ’ has been one of puzzlement and frustration ; like them , I can not equate this vowel with the vowel of ‘ bit ’ .
6 Or had Karen fessed up ?
7 I ca n't imagine he has ever had to search for his mother , or had narcolepsy , or become a hustler , yet he does all three so brilliantly in the film it breaks your heart .
8 None of them was seen as capable of safely preparing a meal ; seven would wander away from home if not watched ; four were substantially incontinent ; five were thought to be at risk with gas or fires ; six were physically frail or had mobility difficulties .
9 All tumours were solid or had elements of er capillary and solid tumours and , routine sections were stained with a standard aminohistochemical technique , using anti C D thirty one anti-clotting .
10 As far as I can tell , Alec never went with a woman again , or had dealings with women .
11 None of the patients with 3849+10 kb CT had had meconium ileus or had liver disease or diabetes mellitus .
12 Or had Washington and Moscow reached some grand design in which Iran divided between them as part of a plan for world condominium .
13 Was A. afarensis a crude biped and still dependent on the trees 3 to 3–5 million years ago , or had man 's ancestors well and truly learnt to walk , possibly more than three million years before ?
14 Many Andersonstown people originated from or had family ties with the Falls Road , the area where the Clonard is located ; the Braniel population on the other hand are East Belfast people , many of whom have ties with the Newtownards Road where Ballymacarrett is located ( see map 4.1 ) .
15 Did the Scarabae still dine , or had customs changed ?
16 Or had Roman told him about last night ?
17 In 1985 , 63% of lone parent families ( with nearly a million children ) were either in receipt of Supplementary Benefit ( SB ) or had incomes below the level of SB , compared with 10% of two parent families with dependent children .
18 In 1985 some two-thirds ( 63 per cent ) of one-parent families ( with nearly a million children ) were living in poverty — that is they were either receiving supplementary benefit ( now income support ) or had incomes below the supplementary benefit ( sb ) level .
19 The proportion of one-parent families living in poverty has increased since 1979 when 4 in 10 ( 42 per cent ) were either receiving sb or had incomes below the sb level .
20 Could he really make a million before he was forty , or had Becky just been teasing him ?
21 It is not enough for the defendant to show that he was aware of the contents of what he was distributing or publishing , but did not himself think that it was insulting if the jury or magistrate should come to the conclusion that he suspected or had grounds to suspect otherwise .
22 Or had Maisie invented even more ghastly crimes for him .
23 Accordingly , the insiders were under an obligation , inter alia , to disclose material matters about which they knew or had reason to believe the relevant shareholders had insufficient knowledge .
24 Or had Burghgesh survived , been taken prisoner , and then years later slipped back into England to reap bloody havoc on his foes ?
25 Had it been a prophecy , or had Luke merely implanted the idea in her head ?
26 Near the summit of the pyramid was a category of semi-educated members numbering a few thousand occupying subordinate positions : most of these were previously non-political residents or nationals of the Soviet Union or had links with the Chinese communists .
27 At the end of each tax year the DHSS takes the figure for your PAYE earnings and any credits , and calculates whether you have earned or had credits of more than the lower earnings limit .
28 At Witham over the weekend , 19 cars were either damaged or had items stolen from them .
29 Or had Herrick himself let them in ?
30 But few of them were of good family or had prospects which were worthy of consideration .
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