Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first centre of its kind , and was offering treatment to women who had suffered problems with previous pregnancies — women who had had handicapped babies , for example , or stillbirths . |
| 2 | But a little later Lord Sankey , who was Lord Chancellor from 1929 to 1935 , when resignations occurred , replaced five Law Lords who had had political backgrounds by others whose reputations rested on their professionalism as lawyers . |
| 3 | Single women are a very small proportion of the entire age cohort : among them it was the non-manual workers , notably those who had had professional or managerial jobs , who had non-state pensions . |
| 4 | Lastly , interviews were carried out with panel members , and with some of the solicitors who had had black clients , to explore their perceptions . |
| 5 | The highest mortality was among those who had had colonic disease for less than six years ( Fig 1 ) , although the CIs of the difference between survival proportions are wide . |
| 6 | Patients who had had gastrointestinal surgery , apart from uncomplicated appendicectomy , were excluded . |
| 7 | The dreams of people who had had traumatic experiences in the war , and who had developed neurotic symptoms , often contained material about the situation in which they were traumatized . |
| 8 | This was a man of forty-six who had had multiple sclerosis for six years . |
| 9 | The pancreatitis patients were divided into two groups — that is , those who had one acute attack and those who had had multiple attacks . |
| 10 | Patients who had had multiple stones experienced more recurrences than did those with single stones ( NS ) . |
| 11 | Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones . |
| 12 | Anyone who had had that knew a bit about the Treasury and knew a little bit about fighting back and working round them and all the rest of it and of giving orders direct to the Chancellor and saying , ‘ Look , this is what we must have ’ , and then getting the Cabinet to back it , so that it was harder for the Treasury to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 13 | In 1989 the same two patients who had had dysplastic changes in the corpus specimens three years earlier again showed slight dysplasia . |
| 14 | In that case there could have been no just criticism of Lincoln 's Inn in the way it had adjudicated on the application of a student applying for admission to the Inn who had had serious criminal convictions between 1956 and 1974 . |
| 15 | According to documents published in the Washington Times , one of the biggest clients of the escort agency was Craig Spence , a trade consultant who had had close links with the Reagan administration . |
| 16 | As the election approached readers of right-wing tabloids , particularly those who had had weak or non-existent party preferences in the mid-term , swung heavily towards the Conservatives while other readers did not . |
| 17 | Pancreatic enzyme synthesis , turnover , and secretion were measured in 10 patients in clinical remission who had had one or more ( one to six ) attacks of acute alcoholic pancreatitis . |
| 18 | These included Thomas Attwood , a young English composer who took lessons with Mozart , an Irish tenor , Michael Kelly , who sang for four years at the imperial theatre , and became Mozart 's favourite billiards partner and drinking companion ; another composer , Stephen Storace , who had had two light operas produced in Vienna , and his sister Nancy ( Anna ) , who was principal soprano at the imperial theatre . |
| 19 | Comparison of amylase secretion and synthesis results of patients who had had only one acute attack and those who had had two or more , shows that synthetic studies may be more sensitive than the standard pancreatic function test , which only measures secretion in detecting pancreatitis . |
| 20 | After the winners were named the pair found it hard to convince some that their glamorous subjects were not professional models but clients who had had new images created for them in Mrs Simmons 's Skinnergate studio . |
| 21 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 22 | Special thanks were due to Chris Markham who had had overall responsibility for organising the day and her band of very efficient and hard-working helpers . |
| 23 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 24 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 25 | They were compared with 25 patients who had had primary melanomas but had a normal naevus pattern . |
| 26 | A not untypical background of an early headhunter was someone who had had general management experience and had worked in one or more functional roles , and then found themselves , for the best of reasons , on the market . |
| 27 | In an attempt to quantify the risk , the Ministry of Defence in the UK commissioned a study of staff engaged in atomic weapons research at Aldermaston and associated establishments who had had repeated exposure to low levels of ionising radiation . |
| 28 | Supported by many in the north who had had enough of war , Harclay entered into secret negotiations with Bruce for a peace settlement that recognized Bruce 's title to the Scottish crown and the separate status of the Scottish kingdom . |
| 29 | She recognised the name at once , that of a woman psychotherapist who had had particular success , Celia believed , with female patients . |
| 30 | They noted that one LEA employed only qualified personnel , whereas others were content to recruit mothers who had had first-hand experience of bringing up their own children . |