Example sentences of "had develop a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This usually entailed placement at a very tender age , because it would be difficult for some parents to deal with the issue of race and colour if the child had developed a sense of racial identity and pride in his or her heritage . |
| 2 | Pathologists who carried out a post-mortem examination on Mrs Henderson said she had developed a chest infection and died from complications due to her head injury . |
| 3 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 4 | He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system . |
| 5 | Madeleine , now she was in France , had developed a way of sighing , bringing her hands up to clasp the back of her neck , then breathing out explosively . |
| 6 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 7 | Nichol had developed a relationship with a 16-year-old girl , Alana Jeannette , with whom he worked at the Little Chef at Skeeby , North Yorkshire , said Mr Spencer . |
| 8 | Malcolm had left Trinidad for the United States in the 1920s and whilst educating himself at Fisk and Howard Universities had developed a temperament of a distinctly militant revolutionary nature . |
| 9 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 10 | This work was in some ways inferior to that done in America , where engineers had developed a disc-cutter with better frequency-range and lower distortion , and their pressings had lower surface-noise as well . |
| 11 | I had developed a visualization to go with this mood . |
| 12 | Julius was about to learn that his wife had developed a mind and a will of her own . |
| 13 | By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island . |
| 14 | The reason no one had developed a product before was Windows 3 toolkits did not appear until six months ago , Dawe claims . |
| 15 | I sat in the children 's ward , the only one left , and nursed a little boy who had once again returned , but who had developed a whooping cough complication on ‘ the day ’ itself . |
| 16 | When I first saw the dog , it was quite obvious he 'd been deeply affected by the explosion and had developed a 100-watt phobia for light bulbs ! |
| 17 | W R Grace gained a patent on neem extract , which it called Margosan-O , in 1988 , claiming that it had developed a means of stabilizing the extracts . |
| 18 | ‘ I had developed a penchant for Southern Comfort over the years and when not running I soon began to surpass the 20 units of alcohol per week ‘ allowed ’ by the experts if you do n't wish to become addicted . |
| 19 | After his defection to the United States , Pacepa claimed that Eastern Bloc scientists had developed a method , known as RADU , of irradiating an enemy and inducing cancerous tumours . |
| 20 | ( The classification was of course made independently of the climate scores , by a researcher from a business school who had developed a method to rate the innovativeness of a company 's strategies and products . ) |
| 21 | They had developed a method of inserting memories into the brains of amnesiacs , but first those memories had to be recorded with full sensory data on to microchip , and then projected by laser into the brain . |
| 22 | On the one hand he had developed a taste for study , which he nourished with a diet of steady and wide reading . |
| 23 | They thought that he reconciled himself too easily to his position , and that he had developed a taste for exile as an escape from business . |
| 24 | Prior to the application to Council , a research project financed by the Polytechnic , Wolverhampton based on sample from the Gloucester and the Bristol port books had developed a database capable of storing and retrieving commodity and topographical data . |
| 25 | Large bowel cancer is uncommon among Japanese eating their traditional diet , but it was found that , within a generation , Japanese eating the American way had developed a risk of large bowel cancer equal to that of Americans . |
| 26 | Daniel had been offering to lend her his favourite book of poetry as she had developed a liking for it . |
| 27 | In short , he had developed a habit of increasing muscular tension whenever he started reciting . |
| 28 | She had developed a habit of raising her hand to her mouth to check because she had no feeling there . |
| 29 | And Green had developed a passion for a university law student he met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 30 | ( Luiza had developed a passion for Chinese food and Hochhauser 's first and only Chinese restaurant had done a roaring lunchtime trade as a result . ) |