Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | She accepted two more helpings of beef , asking Daniel to cut it from the edges , remarking that bloody meat had always turned her stomach , we all have our different tastes , do n't we ? |
| 2 | Harrison explained that a few months earlier eight European environmentalists had stirred up international press coverage by chaining themselves to a logging barge at Miri . |
| 3 | Each path would be expanded in a depth-first , backtrack , depth-first , backtrack pattern until each possible combination had been extended over the poor patch . |
| 4 | John installed a filter and later added a waterfall , but a rapid drop in the water level one day spelt trouble and somewhere in the region of 180 assorted fish had to be found a new home . |
| 5 | According to Indian Army statistics , at least 1,100 Indian soldiers and 2,200 Tamil fighters had been killed in the 32 months of fighting since the IPKF 's July 1987 arrival ; other estimates put the losses higher , and there had been an unknown number of civilian casualties . |
| 6 | That hateful inspector had dragged her away , even though Ma had been weeping enough to fill a kettle . |
| 7 | Those eyes , like two green beetles which a squirming tattooed spider had now digested … |
| 8 | Alice hoped it was not on account of Jasper though , clearly , to make that emotional speech had not been to clever . |
| 9 | The proposal for a new trading zone and for regional economic co-operation had first been mooted in 1989 by Turkey , which was responsible for convening this meeting . |
| 10 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 11 | An Iraqi protest addressed to the UN alleging that Israeli warplanes had overflown Iraq on Oct. 4 using UN helicopters as cover , was categorically rejected by Pérez de Cuéllar on Oct. 16 . |
| 12 | It showed that more than 10% of normal pregnant women had two hour glucose concentrations after a 75 g glucose tolerance test of more than 8 mmol/l and were thus labelled as having impaired glucose tolerance . |
| 13 | Three patients had surgery during the second year of the study ; two with total ulcerative colitis had a colectomy , and one patient had a terminal ileal resection . |
| 14 | The smaller regional administrative units had initialled the Treaty on March 18 . |
| 15 | The first European Indoor Games had been held in Dortmund twenty years earlier and |
| 16 | At Huddersfield , a strong reserve force had been a vital factor in the Championship run , and Chapman soon set about building a similar force at Arsenal . |
| 17 | If only that bloody dry cleaner had been as inefficient as most of them usually were . |
| 18 | I had thought that the ghastly images of that awful day had been burned forever in the minds of anyone who saw them . |
| 19 | Ted Smith was a marvellous goalscorer for Crystal Palace on both sides of the Great War and , if that awful event had not reduced the impact of his career with us , it is almost certain that he and not Peter Simpson would have been our leading goalscorer of all time . |
| 20 | His rampant facial heat had set up its headquarters in his nose ; from there , stray tendrils of blood seemed to leak into his remorseful grey eyes . |
| 21 | The Organization of European Economic Co-operation had flourished so much that , by 1959 , it had eighteen members and other countries outside Europe , such as the U.S.A. , Canada , Australia & Japan , wished to join . |
| 22 | In their December nineteen forty one issue of Home and Country magazine , the Institute reported that two thousand six hundred and fifty preserving centres had been opened . |
| 23 | Restrictions on 243 agricultural items had already been lifted in 1989 and further goods were to be added to the list shortly . |
| 24 | Britain also refused to sign a Social Charter in 1989 which guaranteed certain minimum social rights to EC peoples , and it had to be said , thirty years after the Rome treaties , that European unity had not really fulfilled the high hopes of Schuman , de Gasperi or Adenauer . |
| 25 | It was easier for Labour MPs and other party members to move to a new organization than to transfer to another party ; the SDP could stand for the memory of Attlee , Morrison and Gaitskell , and argue that the present-day Labour Party had moved away towards more extreme policies . |
| 26 | And since there were nine provinces , each political secretary had at least 100 people reporting directly to him , many times what the doctrine of the span of control would allow . |
| 27 | At the beginning it appeared as if those who wanted to flog Europe for being an inadequate political animal were going to win , that political union had been put off still further … |
| 28 | The United Somali Congress ( USC ) , which drew its support from the Hawiye clan of central Somalia , launched an offensive in late December , while the largest rebel group , the northern-based Somali National Movement ( SNM ) , dismissed as " futile " a government announcement on Dec. 26 that political parties had been legalized with immediate effect . |
| 29 | Staples ( 1898 ) and Williams ( 1903 ) additionally give quite detailed descriptions of the vowel in the city , which allow us to infer that low variants had a much wider distribution then than they do today . |
| 30 | By the late Carboniferous a vertebrate amphibian with weak stumpy legs had arrived , probably descended from the ichthyostegids . |