Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [art] " in BNC.

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1 Yet some twelve months after I had graduated , I was now having my first interview with my chief constable who had no idea what I had studied or what result I had achieved .
2 Lernoux became ‘ the voice of those who had no voice ’ .
3 [ PC. 2. ] leered intimidatingly at the guy , who had no comment to make .
4 Among the poor who had no property , desertion was the informal answer to marital unhappiness and was practised on an unknown scale until the Second World War : certainly , eighteenth and nineteenth century poor law officials often expressed concern at the number of deserted wives drawing relief .
5 Forston stayed in Browne ownership until 1827 , when the philanthropic Francis John Browne of Frampton Court , who had no direct heirs , offered the manor to the county authorities , together with seven acres of land , as an ‘ asylum for the benefit of pauper lunatics ’ .
6 It was clear that Albert had been overruled by his committee who had no intention of being deflected from the TUC 's forthcoming national day of action .
7 It was useless to baptize people who had no understanding of the faith , or who had not been persuaded by teaching to espouse Christianity .
8 Now , because of your question , these two officers , who had no need to know , now know .
9 Barnes , who had no staff with him and not enough time , demurred .
10 When the teller announced the Magharba vote at 1235 , implying a Magharba majority , the Zuwaya immediately protested that Magharba were present who had no right to vote : after a check of identity cards some men left and they began the vote again , this time counting both groups of supporters as they passed behind their goals .
11 Shaikhs collected money from members of their lineages to support those who had no other support , or who had heavy expenses of certain kinds ( educational or medical , but not business expenses ) which they could not meet ; but these were in no sense an attempt to redistribute resources .
12 A free ( white ) Zuwayi was one who had no enslaved male ancestors .
13 Charsky , who had no idea how many nights he had spent on the face , tried to keep himself awake by recalling all he knew of Russian history , from the founding of Kiev Rus to the death of Stalin and the suppression of Hungary .
14 But a Dissenting preacher who had no such exceptional distinction as this … was little known either to the press or to the public .
15 For the other three bodies the problem was the same : either the districts ( for Primitive Methodists ) or the individual chapels ( for Congregationalists and Baptists ) allowed men into the ministry who had no academic qualifications .
16 Of 223 defaulters at the Pickering Forest eyre of 1334 , only nineteen finally surrendered themselves at the York county court in August 1338 ; the remainder , who had no lands or chattels by which they could be distrained were outlawed .
17 An attempt to have them evicted failed because the county court judge ruled that the law only applied to people who had no interest in the property .
18 An attempt to have them evicted failed because the county court judge ruled that the law only applied to people who had no interest in the property .
19 Mrs Newton , a committed Anglican and regular churchgoer who had no children , left estate with a net value of £2,791,248 .
20 Blocks appeared to be particularly useful for part-time farmers who had long holidays ( teachers , lecturers ) or for family farmers who had no cereal crops and could therefore fit in three or four days in the autumn .
21 Other policy issues that were observed and which need discussion and consideration included : the problem of sustaining confidence in the livestock market for those ( many of whom were family or part-time farmers ) who had no other enterprise options ; the need for an examination of the labour unit figure at present used in deciding eligibility for improvement grants with a view to its removal — those at present debarred from receiving grant ( because their unit is not big enough ) were unable to carry out improvements to develop the farm ; the case for considering what effect would be achieved by placing a limit ( e. g. 500 standard man days ) on the size of unit eligible for grant and guaranteed prices — such a limit might ensure the future of family units which were under economic pressure for amalgamation and growth of the size of units ; the need for assistance with the building of a second house to aid resettlement and hand-over problems .
22 Those who had no qualifications and no regular occupation were also more likely to have little family support , and to find themselves at eighteen or younger , living on state benefits in lodgings , single bedsits , or flats shared with other young people .
23 Three of the five who had no visitors were said by the people we interviewed to have had no relatives .
24 Neither of the other two who had no visitors had any children ; one had elderly relatives abroad , the other , in the opinion of the deputy officer in charge of the home , only had herself to thank :
25 Sir John was a local landowner who had no love for Darrel at all .
26 Prince William , who had no intention of allowing Napoleon III to separate Prussia from the rest of the German states , accepted only on condition that all the other German sovereigns attended the meeting .
27 In any event the time for sovereigns meeting was long past and in the particular case of Prussia Napoleon III was not being stalked by the King but by Bismarck , who had no intention of allowing his quarry to elude him .
28 It mattered not that after weeks of interviews with 35 Palestinian families in Lebanon , I chose to write about the experiences only of those who had no immediate connection with the Palestinian guerrilla movement .
29 We have therefore missed two important minorities : those who never married , and those couples who had no children .
30 Mada Joyce enquired of Martha , who had no idea what Safex might be .
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