Example sentences of "had [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1,574 kg of gold , found in southern German caves at the end of the war , had since that time been administered by a tripartite commission of France , the UK and the USA . |
| 2 | The hippos , she thought , with a sure hunter 's instinct , the hippos always mate at the full moon , to whelp during the monsoon , as they had since Tertiary times . |
| 3 | Though this would not satisfy purists , the only factor that would invalidate the productivity index for this purpose would be if some companies had widely different subcontract proportions in their outputs ; these would have apparently higher figures than the others . |
| 4 | She was n't much over five feet tall and had dead white skin , pipestem arms and a broad grin like a cartoon character . |
| 5 | The little girl had intensely blue eyes like her own , and a covering of golden down on her head which set Sarah 's lips tingling when they brushed over it . |
| 6 | In contrast to certain other African countries , Zambia had remarkably few periodicals published by churches or religious organizations ; the few that were published all had small circulations . |
| 7 | Mukerji focuses on the early modern period of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as marking a highly significant rise in material culture , so that peasants and ordinary town dwellers who had remarkably few personal possessions in late medieval periods ( Braudel 1981 : 283 ) were becoming familiar with many more products , and from a much wider area ( Burke 1978 : 246–8 ) . |
| 8 | In Crohn 's disease 4 of 52 sera had IgG anti-α antigen , which is not statistically different from the control group , although two of the sera had remarkably high antibody levels . |
| 9 | Indeed , frequency of discussion had remarkably little influence on usefulness-ratings for personal conversations , less influence than motivations , for example . |
| 10 | First , every king when he came of age had remarkably little difficulty in getting rid of the faction which had been dominant during the minority ; Albany Stewarts , Livingstones , Boyds , Douglases , the families who had enjoyed power in the minorities of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries , all lost it when the king began his personal rule . |
| 11 | To appreciate his achievement , we must bear in mind that in his time Europe in general and Germany in particular had remarkably little awareness of Greece or Greek culture as distinctive entities , and insufficient enthusiasm for things Greek ( as opposed to things Greco-Roman ) to feel such unawareness as a deficiency . |
| 12 | She said how glad she was they had somewhere nice to stay and that she hoped they were being good and making their beds and helping with the washing up and remembering to clean their teeth . |
| 13 | Luckily , my sister had moved to within five minutes walking distance of my office so I had somewhere comfortable to go — which was a great help . |
| 14 | Perhaps the best examples of this mistake were the British National Coal Board , British Steel Corporation and British Leyland , all of which had strikingly similar histories : see Higgins and Clegg , 1988 . ) |
| 15 | Yet several activists had strikingly heavy domestic commitments . |
| 16 | If one had properly representative councils — for example , in Liverpool , where the minority within the Labour group managed to take control and impose extremist policies — that would not be possible . |
| 17 | This was due in my view to the fact that he had rather extravagant notions of the office structure that he should maintain . |
| 18 | The layout is very similar to that of Gournia , with narrow cobbled alleys weaving irregularly among blocks of houses , many of which had rather small chambers , cellars perhaps , on the ground floor . |
| 19 | The women actually had rather strong ties , since they spent much of their time doing household tasks communally outside . |
| 20 | Unlike his wife , he had rather prim ideas about what things were suitable for children 's ears . |
| 21 | The Foreign and Commonwealth Office had rather greater concerns than Paul Fabian and his tiny High Commission and Residency on the seafront of Nuku'alofa . |
| 22 | Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that . |
| 23 | erm The warden of Merton had to get out of Oxford quick when the king arrived , because , and spent the erm war in London , name was Nathaniel Brent , and he was quite an important man in the organisation of the Parliamentary war effort , and Lincoln had rather mixed loyalties , too . |
| 24 | But there has to be one guarantee in because I think once we had rather good one , about six people kept , you can never tell how many come , I mean you 'd want maybe bigger , more than , more space in this room . |
| 25 | But , if anything , they had rather fewer night calls . |
| 26 | The remaining one-third of Pomeranian farmers had rather larger self-supporting farms and enjoyed a reasonable degree of comfort . |
| 27 | They were both smartly dressed in casual clothes , although the taller one had rather untidy hair . |
| 28 | As a sign of the future , Ernest Bevin , Minister of Labour , and one of the senior Labour Party ministers , said his party had rather different views on the matter , but would accept the general proposals for the time being . |
| 29 | Butler herself had rather different origins . |
| 30 | They all had rather startling white translucent bristles . |