Example sentences of "[verb] had the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chelsea might have won had the ball not kept turning into a Mexican bean at Kerry Dixon 's feet . |
| 2 | Designed as an ‘ everyman 's ’ aeroplane , the venture might have succeeded had the market economy at the time been more buoyant . |
| 3 | The victim was drugged , he suggests , because ‘ nobody involved had the courage to shoot a helpless and fully conscious man at pointblank range . |
| 4 | In fact the population of Great Britain only increased by about four millions during the inter-war years , about half the level of growth which might have been expected had the rate of growth of the late nineteenth century continued . |
| 5 | The days with one casualty were Sunday 6 January and Sunday 10 February ; on both these days there was snow and traffic volumes were observed to be lower than would have been expected had the weather been fine . |
| 6 | ‘ In no case where we interviewed had the woman only been raped by one man . |
| 7 | John Seer , who 's Fire Protection Officer at Oxfordshire 's Fire Brigade , says had the dump been set alight it could have endangered life . |
| 8 | Operators have got another couple of weeks in which to take decisions on capacity for the summer , so they might not cut back as much as they erm , they might have done had the war still been ongoing , so we should still have plenty of holidays available this summer . |
| 9 | A few people found that being disabled had the effect of trivialising patients ' problems . |
| 10 | well business that would n't , my Lord , that 's perhaps the wrong description , business that would not of been written had the restrictions not been in place |
| 11 | In concept it was an equivalent to the capital gains tax which would have been levied had the building been sold . |
| 12 | On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods . |
| 13 | After temporary repairs the ship set out for the United States on a voyage it would not have made had the collision not occurred . |
| 14 | It is possible but unlikely that progress might have been made had the UN adopted an investigative role instead of a course of action proposed by the United States . |
| 15 | ‘ Of those , at least 25,000 were at such a desperate level of starvation that they would have died had the food reached them any later . |
| 16 | Specifically , it was contended that these earlier or interim contracts would not have been agreed had the customer not already placed an order before 1983 to buy patented equipment . |
| 17 | I ca n't believe had the bell at the same one . |
| 18 | Most of the issues that Dewey raises would never have occurred had the journal editor simply followed common courtesy . |
| 19 | ‘ In general terms , this accident could have been avoided had the petrol vapour not been exposed to a source of ignition , ’ Mr Haddock added . |
| 20 | The situation could have been avoided had the teeth been regularly checked and rasped . |
| 21 | But the crash could have been avoided had the pilot taken a safer course , Sheriff Douglas Risk said in his report on an inquiry into the accident held 13 months ago . |
| 22 | The electorate was steadily expanding during the course of the Stuart century , so that by Anne 's reign perhaps as many as one in four adult males had the right to vote , whilst the passage of the Triennial Act in 1694 meant that those who were enfranchised had the opportunity to make their voice known in frequently contested elections . |
| 23 | This was an incredibly accurate valve amp sound which more than one person commented had the character and warmth of an AC30 , especially when using the A2 through the solid state Stadium power amp into a Proamplifiers speaker cab . |
| 24 | Chatterton 's the only one I would have thought had the nerve , but then even if he had n't been crippled , he would n't have the skill . ’ |
| 25 | The dramatic events of the last few days might have been more easily understood had the Georgians been playing Milan or Manchester United . |
| 26 | Output would have slowed had the investment share not risen . |
| 27 | AIBS urges the Home Secretary to relax the tough measures that would have been introduced had the Bill not been dropped . |
| 28 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 29 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 30 | I agree that such a consequence would have followed had the parties been on equal terms . |