Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the parties had agreed that each consignment was to be separately paid for , the court will normally construe the contract as severable . |
| 2 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 3 | There was nothing to distract the duchess from the inescapable fact that one 's stomach and hips had acquired that unfortunate texture halfway between a satsuma and a helping of lumpy school custard . |
| 4 | Investigators had concluded that this suitcase had reached Frankfurt on an Air Malta flight which left Malta earlier that day . |
| 5 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 6 | Yet both parties had considerably advanced public expenditure , particularly on social policies , to the point where some economists had argued that this kind of expenditure had become an inflationary force , limiting the scope for new wealth-creating private investment . |
| 7 | A report in the International Herald Tribune of Feb. 1 said that officials had confirmed that six men , alleged to have been terrorists , had recently been executed . |
| 8 | Managers had hoped that closer co-operation with the unions would make the committees a place for consultation , not turn them into a battleground . |
| 9 | Surveys had shown that many consumers mistakenly believed that these had been officially approved . |
| 10 | Sample surveys had shown that most people who go to the theatre tend to be middle-class and well-educated , but since so few people altogether actually go to the serious theatre there must be many middle-class , well-educated people who are not theatre-goers . |
| 11 | German businesses had claimed that German disposal laws — among the strictest in Europe — placed an unfair burden on firms struggling with recession and foreign competiton . |
| 12 | In general , most of these commentaries had concluded that domestic rates were probably as fair and efficient a system as any . |
| 13 | Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised . |
| 14 | Long before the appearance of Circular 10/65 a small number of primary school teachers had argued that secondary school selection should not determine the primary school curriculum . |
| 15 | An RUC spokesman said ballistic tests had established that three handguns were used in the attack , which also left a fifth man seriously injured . |
| 16 | None had been stillborn , all had been strangled and the police had decided that one person was responsible for all the murders and that person was a woman . |
| 17 | The Puritans had declared that Roman Catholics were ‘ dogs , swine , unclean beasts , foreigners and strangers from the Church of God ’ , who ought not to be admitted to its services . |
| 18 | We asked whether the Russians had requested that these Cossacks should be turned over to them , and Robertson replied in the negative and added " but they probably will soon " . |
| 19 | We asked whether the Russians had requested that these Cossacks should be turned over to him and Robertson replied in the negative and added " but they probably will soon " … |
| 20 | Palaeomagnetic studies on the continents had indicated that continental drift had , in fact , occurred , while more detailed information on the Earth 's crustal and sub-crustal structure had led many to accept the existence of a relatively mobile zone within the mantle ( the asthenosphere ) . |
| 21 | The diocese 's surveyors had said that 100-mph winds could topple it . |
| 22 | Reports had indicated that German companies had broken the UN trade embargo imposed on Iraq in August 1990 . |
| 23 | Previous reports had suggested that such subgroups of patients did well in terms of survival in the short and medium term after transplantation , assuming that the development of renal failure requiring dialysis had not occurred before receiving a suitable organ , and quality of life has been shown to increase in absolute terms after such a procedure . |
| 24 | And one of the reasons why the black women in Liverpool put this exhibition together erm and they tried to pick out different kinds of jobs that women had to show that black women could do those jobs , and they were saying look , there 's lots of stereotypes erm about the kinds of jobs that black and Asian women can do that fit in with their personalities , and you know the world is wide open and you are able to do this and you do n't have to be erm a singer or a model or erm or erm erm a runner , you know , the whole stereotypes in terms of what black people are good at and they 're saying let's break away from this , let's show the kinds of things that we can do and we can do anything that we set our minds to and erm the exhibition is very positive , actually . |
| 25 | In two of the engineering companies the unions had insisted that temporary workers be guaranteed a minimum period of employment . |
| 26 | By this time , politicians had realised that organised labour represented a bloc of votes , which could be very valuable to candidates . |