Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1663 an Act of Charles II had placed a partial ban on the importation of foreign cattle to England ; the ban became total in 1666 and permanent in 1680 . |
| 2 | She had sustained a slight scratch on her neck . |
| 3 | China had formed a Leading Group on Intellectual Property , headed by State Councillor Song Jian , and on Oct. 20 , the China Daily reported that China would join the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention before the end of 1992 [ see also pp. 38339-40 ] . |
| 4 | Da Silva had vanished at Canjuers ; a Scotsman had been thrown out for being underaged ; Gionesca was in hospital in Orange with dysentery and pneumonia after his bath ; Gazil , the Rumanian paratrooper , had developed a massive infection on his back caused by the friction of his rucksack during marching ; and the other six were ill or disabled after our stay at Canjuers . |
| 5 | By the close , the shares had fallen a further 40p on the London market to close at 560p while they ended the day on the French bourse Fr3.6 lower at Fr59.9 amid heavy dealing in both markets . |
| 6 | Jess was the liveliest player on the park and after he had won a free kick on the edge of the penalty box , the Aberdeen forward came close with a header from Nevin 's cross . |
| 7 | On her head was a hat that looked as if someone had dropped a large meringue on her head . |
| 8 | Only six months earlier her husband 's last book had occupied a prominent position on that stand and hundreds like it up and down the country . |
| 9 | The owner of the stall reminisced about old Wadi Halfa where his father had owned a big tea-house on the Corniche . |
| 10 | The Serbs had repaired a war-damaged bridge on the road to Srebrenica , he said . |
| 11 | As a juror , would you find that a defendant had committed a serious crime on such a basis ? |
| 12 | On Sept. 5 it was reported that the army had imposed a virtual blockade on Casamance , and the following day , Le Monde said that officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in Geneva were concerned by the authorities ' refusal to allow Red Cross personnel into the area . |
| 13 | In their most unpopular form the Corn Laws dated from 1815 when they had imposed a high tariff on imported corn to protect home-grown corn in freak economic conditions . |
| 14 | In Oxford Tariq Ali and Stephen Lukes had organized a second teach-in on the war . |
| 15 | By 1920 , it had secured a comfortable majority on the council and had two of Greater London 's four Labour MPS . |
| 16 | You would presumably have been aware that Skelton had undergone a tremendous expansion on its south side ? |
| 17 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 18 | Anna had no need to be besought , for she had done a quick sum on the back of her child benefit book , and had worked out that , if Flora could start at St Saviour 's in the summer term , she would have earned enough to put down at least £100 towards the first term 's fees . |
| 19 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 20 | The ANC secretary-general , Cyril Ramaphosa , said the government had made a major concession on the issue of devolution of power to regional governments . |
| 21 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |
| 22 | Indeed , it was in a mood of celebration rather than panic that the garotters were actually toasted for having ‘ taken upon themselves the duty of upsetting a whole fabric of amiable delusions ’ concerning the reformation of criminals , and further congratulated that through their ‘ inexcusable crime ’ they had made a salutary impact on public opinion and ‘ created a general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ . |
| 23 | We concur with the DCSLs who felt that Major award schools had put more thinking into their documentation and that the larger funding had made a greater impact on provision , management and the physical organisation and appearance of the library . |
| 24 | Despite the fanfare which greeted the launch of the Air 180 last year , the subsequent arrival of the Air Huarache had made a greater impression on our testers , who have found it to be both innovative and effective . |
| 25 | I had a sudden flash of memory of one of the most remarkable women I had ever met — Sister Kenny , a woman who had made a great impact on me because of Clare . |
| 26 | The overwhelming consensus amongst respondents was that microcomputers had made a significant impact on their organizations . |
| 27 | The young Irish champion had made a big impression on his regular cross-channel trips last season , and a place with Swift or Van Diemen had been earmarked for him ever since he stunned the British series regulars by winning the opening round of the 1992 championship . |
| 28 | L. C. Knights , who had just joined the University , had written a famous essay on ‘ How many children had Lady Macbeth ? ’ ) |
| 29 | He doubled back to tell Holly she had written a nice piece on Donaldson . |
| 30 | In fact , one of her students who was black showed a remarkable sympathy with Emily Dickinson , and had written a good essay on the short poem beginning , ‘ Drowning is not so pitiful/As the attempt to rise ’ . |