Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gall bladder contractility was present in nine of the 10 patients at follow up ; in two of these patients a non-contractile gall bladder had become contractile and in one patient , gall bladder contractility had been lost . |
| 2 | In June 1940 the land of Louis XIV and Napoleon had experienced swift defeat at the hands of Germany . |
| 3 | Mrs Singh had seemed mystified by the advice , as she believed the school should be responsible for progress in English and mathematics and shrugged helplessly when I suggested that parents also had an important role . |
| 4 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
| 5 | In Britain it flourished especially among those for whom orthodox religion had become untenable , providing a promise of immortality apparently much firmer than argument such as that of Stewart and Tait , or of the Bible . |
| 6 | At last , the Rolls had broken free of Piccadilly 's logjam and was making its way at something approaching normal speed towards Knightsbridge . |
| 7 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 8 | It should also be remembered that , until legislation was introduced which prohibited the use of most lead fishing weights , the number of swans dying from lead poisoning had reached critical proportions . |
| 9 | In the face of such concerted action it was clear that the Library Association had to take strong action on behalf of its members who , individually , could have little chance of opposing the ban . |
| 10 | But though the negative aspects of their relationship outweighed its benefits , their association had proved useful . |
| 11 | In each case , the association had commissioned structural surveys , followed by feasibility and market studies . |
| 12 | In such cases they implied that every Ujdaid or every Amiri had had combatant status . |
| 13 | The claythorpe mill pond had seemed ideal . |
| 14 | The 5th Brigade had gone clean through the enemy lines to a depth of eight thousand yards . |
| 15 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 16 | Arens said that the US side had indicated continuing support for the joint US-Israeli development of the Arrow surface-to-air missile programme , which involved the US company Lockheed , and on which the USA was underwriting 80 per cent of the costs . |
| 17 | Maybe , thought Jaq , that was where the Callidus experiment had come unstuck … if indeed it had come unstuck . |
| 18 | This Friday , the gym was freezing and all the children 's legs had turned pink and orange and mauve like a winter sunset . |
| 19 | Preliminary assessments suggested that Kuwait had suffered catastrophic damage to its infrastructure during the Gulf conflict . |
| 20 | Since the outbreak of the Gulf war in 1980 , he stated , Kuwait had stolen vast amounts of oil from the southern section of the Rumalla oilfield . |
| 21 | His penis had gone small . |
| 22 | Resentment at press-gang methods had caused sporadic revolts in rural Java , though the full extent of this horror was not yet known . |
| 23 | The confidence debate heard claims by Mr O'Malley that the coalition had become unworkable because of a lack of trust in the cabinet engineered by Mr Reynolds . |
| 24 | However , this was definitely secondary to the manpower approach , though again Dalton liked to contrast actual levels of expenditure with the £500 million which the Coalition had thought likely to be necessary in peacetime , pointing out in early 1947 that the current level of expenditure at over £800 million meant 2s. in the pound extra on the income tax in comparison with the Coalition figure . |
| 25 | On May 17th it said that it would not decide whether to hear an appeal challenging California 's ‘ unitary tax ’ on multinational companies until the administration had made clear its views on the matter . |
| 26 | At the same time the duchy administration had provided new recruits for Edward 's service . |
| 27 | At the same time the duchy administration had provided new recruits for Edward 's service . |
| 28 | Investigator Ken Randall found Gooda Walker had made unorthodox use of ‘ time and distance ’ insurance policies , which led to a possible £10 million overstatement of profits for 1988 on one syndicate , 290 . |
| 29 | Three farms in Powys had bought extra acres to accommodate sons now on the farm . |
| 30 | In the 1980s many Latin American NICs had to reschedule external debts and implement austerity budgets ( cuts in public services ) to improve their economic situations . |