Example sentences of "had [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unlikely that many had progressive chronic renal failure , as at two year follow up only one patient had subsequently deteriorated and needed long term dialysis . |
| 2 | Or you went up the fire escape , which had fifty two steps , to go up . |
| 3 | Well they , they just you know they they just have this erm craft sort of , they do stall and and they make stuff for the shop they had he had a couple of retail shops , he had a factory yeah I think he said he had fifty two people working for him . |
| 4 | Now if you only had fifty nine pence |
| 5 | He still had fifty left . |
| 6 | The bookseller Patrick Lundy associated with , he had strong Irish connections , had n't he ? |
| 7 | They had strong enclosing walls , round corner towers with firing slits from which defenders could command the outer walls . |
| 8 | It suggested that all countries had strong mutual interests in providing growing markets for each others ' products , in security of supplies and in a more stable monetary system . |
| 9 | Most of the men and women who formed the UUAC had strong religious and ethical convictions . |
| 10 | Marie 's parents had strong religious views that made her feel very guilty about having sex in their home when she and her husband had to live there for a while : " We did it on the bedroom floor on the wedding night because I would n't use the bed , in case it made a noise . |
| 11 | The Reaganites had strong idealogical objections to the convention , regarding the convention as a dangerous precedent for other international resources , and as a step towards bureaucratisation and away from free enterprise . |
| 12 | The appearance of a Frithuric among the Middle Angles in the reign of Wulfhere 's successor , Aethelred , giving Bredun , probably Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire , to the monastery of Peterborough in the time of Seaxwulf , Wynfrith 's successor as bishop of Lichfield , and Breedon 's connection with the monasteries of Bermondsey and Woking in Surrey , raises the intriguing possibility that Frithuwald was a Middle Angle intruded into Surrey by Wulfhere or at the very least that Frithuwald represented a ruling family in Surrey which had strong Middle Anglian connections . |
| 13 | To Methodists the talk of collectivism remained largely a political debate because , despite their numerous schisms , all five Methodist connexions had strong central authorities much envied by some Baptists and Congregationalists . |
| 14 | It is clear that the middle kingdom had strategic importance for a king who wished to preserve German unity ; that the Saxon kings had strong practical grounds for wishing to be kings of Lombardy and to hold suzerainty over the kingdom of Burgundy . |
| 15 | To his credit he obviously had strong parental affection and a powerful concern that the child should not be totally alienated from him . |
| 16 | All three countries had strong farmer-cooperative institutions . |
| 17 | What does seem strange in retrospect is the choice of church the couple made for their wedding : the Parkeses had strong Nonconformist tendencies , though they had baptised young Elizabeth in an Anglican church , St Dunstan 's in the West . |
| 18 | Zeinab , who had strong musical interests , found their company congenial and enjoyed their artistic debates . |
| 19 | Formerly , East German companies had strong vertical and horizontal integration with activities separate from the core business , and large numbers of employees . |
| 20 | She had made it clear to the woman that she had strong Nazi sympathies , and often attempted to talk about the war in the desert , but to no avail . |
| 21 | TSA had strong academic links , in particular with the Scottish Solar Energy Group and together we organised a three day ideas competition in Easthall in January 1987 called ‘ Heatfest ’ . |
| 22 | Another group , ‘ Gentling Brünnhildes ’ , aggressive , masculine women , had strong competitive feelings towards men , but at another level desperately wanted to be overpowered and mastered by Brünnhilde , it will be remembered , was eventually mastered by Siegfried . |
| 23 | There were businessmen who welcomed Keynesian ideas and accepted the popular wartime view that industry had strong social obligations . |
| 24 | Councillors , most of whom had strong local roots and had been in power for many years , came to believe they had a permanent mandate and readily resisted any challenge to their authority . |
| 25 | These men had strong territorial roots , but at local level . |
| 26 | At this period he had strong literary and theatrical interests . |
| 27 | His lifestyle was comfortable but simple ; he had strong Christian convictions . |
| 28 | The majority of these companies were directly involved with the emerging oil industry and had strong American connections . |
| 29 | Though consequently treated with some suspicion by the Marian regime , there is no evidence that he had strong Protestant convictions : his loyalties were to the City and other members of its élite . |
| 30 | I use plants which are good oxygenators — my 48″ tank originally had 75 straight and 50 twisted vallis , plus 50 or 60 other plants . |