Example sentences of "[subord] had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greater and lesser frequency existed in about equal proportions , but nearly twice as many of this married population had intercourse only once a week , or less often , than had intercourse three times or more in a week . |
| 2 | Different as his experience was from that of the curia , he found in it an ally far more than had Paul with his long curial background . |
| 3 | In so doing he combined the religious culture of Lérins and the rhetorical culture of Late Antiquity more successfully than had Sidonius . |
| 4 | In fact the report was so useless that it did more damage than had Mitterand kept silent . |
| 5 | Zimbabwe , achieving independence in the 1980s , faced leaner economic times than had Zambia in the 1960s . |
| 6 | This blanket denial might have been more persuasive if the report , or the files on which it was based , had been made available for inspection by some suitably qualified independent investigator , but the subcommittee fared no better in this respect than had counsel for Pan Am . |
| 7 | These engines required much better fit of components than had Newcomen 's ; parts bought in had to fit exactly , and then those putting up the engine and its house on site required to know just what to do . |
| 8 | A Stravinsky versus Strauss controversy also surrounded Newman 's head , with supporters of the Russian composer challenging his views by suggesting that Stravinsky had penetrated more deeply into the human mind than had Strauss . |
| 9 | A principal feature of Dennett 's case is that we posit features of our unconscious apparatus , which have no necessary connection with the actual thoughts we have , any more than had Hume 's perceptions of causation with perceptions of causes . |
| 10 | SSDs had more knowledge of the number of disabled people in their area than had housing departments , and they were more likely to have specific policies on meeting their needs . |
| 11 | Addington 's form of income tax introduced the novel principle of deduction at source , which enabled much better anticipation of outcome than had Pitt 's own assessments . |
| 12 | Healing , I would n't give it penicillin if had Vietnam of toothache and in-growing toenails all at the same time . |
| 13 | And again there was the quiver of amusement , because had Dierdriu ever been discreet when she went to a lover 's bed ? |
| 14 | However , at the request of Prime Minister Petre Roman on March 21 they had withdrawn their resignations , as had Resources and Industry Minister Mihai Zisu ( whose offer to resign had officially been on health grounds ) . |
| 15 | On August 27 they awoke to find that food had gone on ration , as had petrol and many other necessities . |
| 16 | During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) . |
| 17 | Nigel had been a very heavy smoker but had given it up eight years earlier , as had I. |
| 18 | No other country had such a highly educated corps of civil servants as had Germany . |
| 19 | He commanded a tank troop in the main assault on the Normandy beaches , and his death outside the village of St Pierre , 9 June 1944 , robbed English literature — as had Owen 's death in 1918 — of the most individual and accomplished poet of his generation . |
| 20 | The two ‘ Arminian ’ bishops of Chichester in the 1620s and 1630s , Richard Montague and Brian Duppa , clashed as surely with the local squires as had Bishop Curteys fifty years before , but this time the enraged Sussex gentry found no support in their appeals to the king ; not surprisingly , a substantial number of them saw Charles 's pretensions as a growing threat to their own social position and local prestige . |
| 21 | It was to change the life of the human race as much as had steam . |
| 22 | The tremendous amount of timber that had been used to construct the set had been donated , as had carpets and materials for curtains . |
| 23 | Architecture taken out of Palladio had been translated into English and published in England in 1663 , as had Gerbier 's Counsel and Advice to Builders . |
| 24 | Sheilagh , a farmer 's wife , had been widowed at the same time as had Mrs Knelle , and a bond had formed between them . |
| 25 | Newman and Nichols , in a study of a 60–80-year-old group in North Carolina , confirmed this and noted , as had Kinsey , that the extent of sexual activity in later years depends far more on the intrinsic sexual drive of the individual than on relative age considerations . |
| 26 | Lord Salisbury , who had a poor opinion of Clarke 's abilities ( as had Halsbury ) , wrote in much perplexity to the Lord Chancellor but saying that the Rolls should be offered to Clarke ‘ on party grounds ’ because he would do less harm as a judge than as Attorney-General . |
| 27 | As had Mr Kobold . |
| 28 | Dissanayake had competed with Premadasa for the ruling United National Party 's nomination as presidential candidate in 1988 ( as had Lalith Athulathmudali , now transferred from Agriculture to Education ) , and had subsequently differed with the President on such issues as the handling of the withdrawal of Indian troops from Sri Lanka . |
| 29 | The middle years of the last century were dominated in British geology by Sedgwick and Murchison , who both supported catastrophic doctrines all their lives ( though not in a strictly biblical sense as had Buckland before them ) . |
| 30 | Poland , the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had had this status since mid-1989 [ see p. 37212 ] , as had Hungary until its accession in November 1990 [ see p. 37870 ] . |