Example sentences of "[subord] had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | protestant theology , under German leadership , had more readily accepted the implications of Biblical criticism than had Roman . |
| 2 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | From the 1890s ‘ neo-populists ’ , whose chief theorist was V.M. Chernov , placed less emphasis on the peculiar virtues of the peasant commune than had earlier populists , but argued that since the vast majority of peasants rejected private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands , they were already semi-socialist in outlook . |
| 4 | These two new schemes operate with much simpler rule structures than had supplementary benefit . |
| 5 | One scholar claims that " the Wildbad group was delving deeper into the emancipation issue than had any governmental or gentry body in Russia before " . |
| 6 | could er , I do n't think that can be right because had that been right , had the commission been saying you 've got restrictions but there not malign , then we 'll be given you exemption , they would of said you 've got restrictions but you 've justified them |
| 7 | So you 're saying that they were driven more by there political desire for power than by their ideology because had absolute egalitarianism worked then they should have been satisfied with that because then they were fulfilling their ideology . |
| 8 | Iraq 's Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Abdul Wahab Mahmoud al-Sabbagh said on May 18 that 50 per cent of cereal and seed stocks had been destroyed during the Gulf war , as had 95 per cent of livestock and poultry for breeding . |
| 9 | The original double entrance doors to the booking hall had been replace by an utterly incongruous picture window as had adjacent booking hall and waiting room windows . |
| 10 | In contrast , surplus countries argued that the USA should solve her balance of payments problems by introducing expenditure-reducing policies at home , as had other countries . |
| 11 | That as the Rules of the Supreme Court took effect subject to any relevant statutory provision ( in this case the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965 ) , Cargolux having failed to make out their claim , leave to serve outside the jurisdiction had to be set aside as had all proceedings under the fourth party notice against Lies . |
| 12 | His clothes had burned away instantly , as had all his bodily hair and most of his skin . |
| 13 | In his first column for the Morning Post , February 16 , 1906 , he had dismissed contributory social insurance on the German pattern , as had all British investigating committees , with the standard view that it would require an ‘ un-British ’ amount of regulation of the individual . |
| 14 | Not as many as had first come , of course . |
| 15 | Some experts suggested that the damage resulting from the slick was not as severe as had first been assumed . |
| 16 | Poor Sarah , as she lived into her seventies , can hardly have felt like much of a torch-bearer ; during her childhood in the 1780s and '90s Titfords had been thick on the ground — as had many families she now saw no more . |
| 17 | He had ‘ believed passionately ’ in innovation , as had many of the polytechnics . |
| 18 | Abdesellam himself took responsibility for the Economy Ministry , as had Ghozali before him . |
| 19 | The Southern Railway made guided rambling a regular service as had most of the railway companies by the outbreak of war . |
| 20 | He had , as had most strong popes , a clear idea of what he thought the past signified . |
| 21 | Pintsch had become an addict of the hobby early in the thirties , as had most of his friends . |
| 22 | In fact it had been open for some time already as had half a dozen other places within easy walk because America believes in man 's inalienable right to eat whenever he is awake . |
| 23 | A delicious tray of fresh Severn salmon sandwiches had come and gone as had several more rounds of drinks , and Yanto was getting restless . |
| 24 | All three had attended Edward IV 's funeral in the previous month , as had several other former royal servants who can be associated with Gloucester in this period . |
| 25 | All three had attended Edward IV 's funeral in the previous month , as had several other former royal servants who can be associated with Gloucester in this period . |
| 26 | At first sight , the lack of breakage of the bones described by Korth ( 1979 ) is surprising , for small mammal bones are very fragile , especially if they have already passed through the digestive system of a predator , as had some of his study bones . |
| 27 | It had come from a chateau outside Paris , as had some of the other beauties . |
| 28 | The guerrillas ' unexpected incursion into the exclusive diplomatic quarter of Escalon on Monday night had already shaken US confidence in the Salvadorean army , as had last week 's murder of six Jesuit priests by uniformed intruders . |
| 29 | The result ( Table 3.2 ) was that three of the four tutored birds had learnt to open the milk containers , as had three of the four that were given an already opened one ; but none of the controls had learnt the skill . |