Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These seven officers and ten or so ratings had done rudimentary training with gear they bought mostly in the Cairo bazaar , and they were most interested in the COPPist 's equipment , which included some new suits designed by Siebe Gorman but not tested fully by the wearers . |
| 2 | Perhaps Britain had to undergo painful shock treatment if she was ever to become as economically dynamic as France or West Germany . |
| 3 | On May 22 Liechtenstein became the seventh member of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) joining Austria , Finland , Iceland , Norway , Sweden and Switzerland ; hitherto Liechtenstein had had associate status through its customs union with Switzerland , but no vote . |
| 4 | She was taking a gamble , already Hari had spent precious time and materials making footwear that might never be bought and paid for . |
| 5 | Elsewhere tractors had scoured deep gullies separated by huge ridges that threatened to strand the little car with its wheels thrashing uselessly in space . |
| 6 | Once evolution had discovered successful ways of constructing organisms it would surely have used those same mechanisms again and again . |
| 7 | Now Cranston had seen decapitated heads , be they of murdered taverner or some lord executed on Tower Hill , but this was truly gruesome ; it was not so much the half-closed eyes and still blood-dripping neck but the mouth forced open and , thrust inside , the mangled remains of the dead merchant 's genitals . |
| 8 | By now Alice had regained complete control of herself . |
| 9 | Maybe fish had developed muscular fins and crawled on to land to become amphibians ; maybe amphibians in their turn had developed water-tight skins and become reptiles ; maybe , even , some ape-like creatures had stood upright and become the ancestors of man . |
| 10 | She flopped back , exaggerating her disappointment , then let him tell her how Marshall had discovered identical knives on sale in Leather Lane . |
| 11 | The illustration shows how painters had observed differing sections of the same projection . |
| 12 | She remembered that somewhere Dorothy had kept old photograph albums and , on a whim , began to search for them . |
| 13 | This project of revitalising the moral ground of liberalism was particularly important at a time when industrialisation had destroyed traditional sources of social cohesion by cutting individuals off from their fellow citizens and reducing their opportunities for self-expression through economic specialisation . |
| 14 | Columbia Square was built on principles similar to the Thanksgiving and Peabody buildings ; but it did allow for a club room and a covered area where children might play on wet days , where Roberts had avoided communal amenities , questioning whether the working class would have time to enjoy them . |
| 15 | A report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 16 noted that China 's strategic interests in Myanma had " undergone a fundamental change " since the 1970s when China had supported anti-government insurgents operating near the China-Myanma border , and that there had been a shift towards greater economic co-operation . |
| 16 | They really came into their own in the days when Harry had to accumulate sufficient stocks for weekend house parties . |
| 17 | Abrams , Oliver L. North and Alan D. Fiers , head of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Central American Task Force in 1984-88 , composed the inner circle of a " Restricted Interagency Group " which co-ordinated US activities in central America in 1985-86 , a period when Congress had banned military aid to the rebels . |
| 18 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 19 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 20 | It was a struggle for bites in the Leeds Shimano Open on the Aire at Leeds where anglers had to dodge floating ice . |
| 21 | During this period the European Communities exerted pressure by warning that any military intervention would entail the cancellation of EC credits and assistance to Yugoslavia , as had happened in the early 1980s when Turkey had declared martial law [ see pp. 30541-55 ] . |