Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun pl] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | A charge of public exhibition of indecent acts or things had not been brought for 100 years , since a showman was convicted of keeping a booth on Epsom Downs for the purpose of an indecent exhibition . |
| 2 | ‘ The love and affection which these ploughmen or horsemen had for their animals was quite extraordinary . |
| 3 | He also ordered that all public meetings or conferences had to be cleared with the Mayor 's office three days in advance . |
| 4 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 5 | Sixteen parties were represented in the new Chamber of Deputies ; about 50 different parties or groupings had put up candidates . |
| 6 | They tell of women murdered by Iraqi soldiers , because husbands or sons had joined the rebellion ; of heavy shelling of residential areas ; of summary executions of anybody suspected of aiding the rebels ; of bodies left lying in the streets . |
| 7 | In 1857 , however , the state had started encouraging the creation of private joint-stock companies for the construction of railways , with the result that investors had taken their money out of state banks and put it into railway-building . |
| 8 | It was also estimated that 60 per cent of the fruit and vegetable crop had been lost , although this could be blamed in part on almost continuous rain between late August and October in the main vegetable-growing belt of central European Russia , Byelorussia and the north Ukraine , with the result that crops had rotted in waterlogged fields . |
| 9 | Sir Hugh told the BBC Northern Ireland Inside Ulster programme that lives had been saved and damage prevented by the huge haul of Semtex seized last week . |
| 10 | It also , of course , raised expectations which demanded a fast reaction , so a system which demanded confirmation that responses had been made by partners or managers to issues or weaknesses which were identified was developed . |
| 11 | At the time of the interviews , there was a growing feeling in some LEAs that projects had developed unintended procedures which would be difficult to dismantle . |
| 12 | This meant in practice that magistrates had less say in determining what happened to children in trouble while social workers gained more say . |
| 13 | With so many part-time holdings the wives did much of the feeding and tending of stock during the winter but it was an area where neither husbands nor wives had been active in training . |
| 14 | We do well to remember that , after all the violence that humans had created on the earth , God surveyed the debris and said ‘ he was sorry he made man ’ ( Gen.6:7 ) . |
| 15 | For although we frequently find in paintings of this period that a number of consecutive scenes are represented simultaneously in one picture , in other ways temporal considerations came to exert a decisive influence — in particular , causing painting a secco to replace al fresco , or true fresco , since the very long apprenticeship that pupils had to serve before they became proficient in fresco painting could not be maintained , and a successful painter had to work fast in order to handle all the commissions that he received . |
| 16 | Nor would he go into detail about the method of murder although detectives had earlier disclosed how Walker and Collier , both HIV-positive , were killed . |
| 17 | Durkheim and others had emphasized to Eliot connections between primitive rituals like the intichiuma and more developed religions such as Christianity . |
| 18 | And once broken , once the grief and tears had begun , it would take some little time for her to recover , although now that she had faced what had happened she might do so more quickly and easily than she would have done had she continued suppressing her memories , and refusing healthy grieving . |
| 19 | However , after a £50,000,000 compensation package for UK depositors and employees had been put together by the Abu Dhabi government on July 30 , the High Court in London granted the bank a four-month delay to allow more time for majority shareholders to explore ways of reviving BCCI . |
| 20 | By the time doctors discovered what was wrong , the tissue in her legs and arms had already been eaten away . |
| 21 | One of Ginny 's earliest memories was of the contrast between the white of his shirt and shorts and the brown of his skin ; his legs and arms had been heavily muscled and covered with a sprinkling of dark hairs , and beads of sweat on his upper lip drained into his thin moustache . |
| 22 | Demons and spirits had no such moral qualities . |
| 23 | Other older husbands and wives had adapted their work ( by changing jobs ) to help a son who was trying to set up in farming . |
| 24 | Throughout the 1950s the birchers and floggers had been ably represented by a coterie of MPs — Wing Commander Bullus , Brigadier Clarke , Brigadier Medlicott , Captain Waterhouse and the irrepressible Sir Thomas Moore — who had tormented a succession of Home Office spokesmen with their ghoulish enthusiasms , with a substantial measure of support for their aims . |
| 25 | Cutting tax rates will usually reduce the deadweight tax burden but might increase revenue if taxes had initially been sufficiently high . |
| 26 | He thought Eva should leave school , and take a job , as her brothers and sisters had done . |
| 27 | For the North African church had long clung to its own traditions of autonomy with a tenacity which made it a power with which the emperors and popes had to reckon . |
| 28 | Emil explained to me that on this trip the linen , cutlery and glasses had been provided by the caterers , and without more ado he showed me first , where to find everything and second , how to set a table . |
| 29 | By the nineteenth century this language of animals and flowers had been almost lost , though E. H. Aitkin in India in 1883 , drawing a chameleon hunting a butterfly , could whimsically call it ‘ the pursuit of pleasure ’ . |
| 30 | Recent research has shown that in such cases it is more likely that the animals and humans had been eaten by other predators , such as leopards an hyenas . |