Example sentences of "had [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taft and Ross ( 1969:221 ) point out that ‘ The United States has had the bloodiest and most violent labor history of any industrial nation in the world . ’ |
| 2 | She had experienced her mother as a distant figure who at times just grabbed her and moved her about , but she had not had the physical and emotional closeness that she craved and needed . |
| 3 | These will have had a firm foundation in play and the talk that accompanies it , particularly if the learner has had the social and material opportunities provided by playgroup or nursery school . |
| 4 | I reckon if I had had a flat and everything I could have given it a try . |
| 5 | And then she went in one day and she knew she 'd had a thousand and said can I extend it ? |
| 6 | He had met many famous and exciting people , he 'd had a rich and varied life , some of it rather sad . |
| 7 | Dicey 's work has had a major and lasting impact . |
| 8 | No patient in this group could be considered to have had a successful and uneventful procedure . |
| 9 | In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor . |
| 10 | It has had a long and complicated history ; but , at the present day , the form required by law for the creation and transfer of estates and interests in land is both uniform and simple . |
| 11 | Super-SARA has had a long and troubled gestation period . |
| 12 | As your article said ‘ Super-SARA has had a long and troubled gestation period ’ . |
| 13 | We 've had a long and tiring journey and my wife is not well . ’ |
| 14 | He had had a long and tiring journey , flights from Frankfurt , Heathrow and Glasgow all having been delayed or cancelled . |
| 15 | Himalayan skiing has had a long and painfully slow gestation period beginning with the activities of various Indian Army Officers in the early part of the century . |
| 16 | A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty . |
| 17 | Always with resignation and with grief but buffered by the knowledge that he would no longer be in pain and confusion , by the fact that he 'd had a long and lively life — that he would be at peace at last . |
| 18 | M&TIS Calibration laboratory has had a long and successful association with Rosemount providing calibrations of differential pressure transducers , typically to an accuracy of 0.09% at 500mbar differential and 200 bar static pressure . |
| 19 | Johnson Matthey has had a long and important involvement in the development of cisplatin and carboplatin , the platinum-based anti-tumour drugs used in the treatment of testicular and ovarian cancer . |
| 20 | Conductor and orchestra have had a long and fruitful association — starting in 1963 when David Atherton became the youngest ever conductor at the BBC Proms in London . |
| 21 | We bring the Guinness Spot to a close with a local musician who has had a long and distinguished career in the country and blues divisions of rock . |
| 22 | In many ways I 've had a fuller and more satisfying life since then , and I know that my children still need me in lots of ways . |
| 23 | Much post-modernist art has had a critical and contestatory function which is all too easily overlooked . |
| 24 | He had had a varied and an outstanding career . |
| 25 | St Mary 's had a sad and long history of neglect . |
| 26 | They have had a pleasant and pastoral existence since Republican Ambassador Charles Price , the man who replaced Ambassador Raymond Seitz , banned the gun-toting marines on duty at Winfield House , the official residence in Regent 's Park , from taking pot shots at them . |
| 27 | She had had a splendid and cultural week . |
| 28 | Can my right hon. Friend confirm that the Government have had a consistent and unwavering policy on nuclear deterrence through the strength and use of Trident ? |
| 29 | At fifty five Mr Pacey has had a full and distinguished career in the police force . |
| 30 | It is an assumption that has had a profound and , it is now seen , a damaging effect on schools . |