Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that time was ticking away remorselessly , though less than half a minute had passed . |
| 2 | Secondly , there were the regions of the old industrial periphery — the North , Wales and Scotland — which for half a century had suffered higher than national rates of unemployment . |
| 3 | Thus Cuba , which for nearly half a century had run its economy on the basis of near-total reliance on the United States , was faced with the need to find a new market for 700,000 tonnes of sugar and an alternative source of oil supplies . |
| 4 | At that time Kiev was one of Russia 's greatest cities and within half a century had a great cathedral and hundreds of churches . |
| 5 | I opened the lockers to pull out the kit but found that the top had come off a water container and half a gallon had spilt , soaking the tea bags and bursting the envelope which carried my documents . |
| 6 | Carlie also claimed that when she was two months old a baby-sitter had stolen a gold cross from round her neck . |
| 7 | After graduation I worked in London for a couple of years , but in 1985 a decision had to be made : my husband had just finished a sixmonth intensive training course at the Thatching Advisory Service in Berkshire . |
| 8 | Half an hour had passed since they had left the shelter of the culvert . |
| 9 | Not more than half an hour had passed when a little grey tractor chugged into the car park . |
| 10 | Well over half an hour had passed . |
| 11 | Half an hour had passed . |
| 12 | With this fact duly logged , Brad Doshan boarded the coach confidently but was slightly surprised at the size of the win , which was signed , sealed and delivered before half an hour had been played . |
| 13 | Less than half an hour had taken them to the motorway ; after that it was easy — they were heading north . |
| 14 | Half an hour had passed . |
| 15 | Such a government had to be able to carry a programme of economies through the House of Commons : this immediately ruled out the possibility of a Labour minority government led by Henderson , as suggested by Moodie in an otherwise illuminating article . |
| 16 | Such a vision had never so much as crossed her mind . |
| 17 | The proposal for such a register had been endorsed at the G-7 summit of leading industrialized countries in London in July [ see p. 38321-22 ] . |
| 18 | He admitted that — from a communist point of view — such a development had great dangers and what was involved was the ‘ competition of economic forms ’ . |
| 19 | Fear of such a development had motivated Communist attacks on Left Socialism . |
| 20 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 21 | Such a plan had allegedly been mooted by Robert Gates , director of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , who visited Jordan in late June . |
| 22 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 23 | It was an enormous tunnelling problem , and detractors called it both dangerous and impractical , because nothing on such a scale had been attempted before . |
| 24 | Nor could it have happened on such a scale had the banks ' powers of credit-creation been constrained by the prudential rules governing national financial structures . |
| 25 | Where such a transaction had taken place there were no problems , but naturally any forced seizures caused bitterness and could well lead to bloodshed . |
| 26 | In a formal statement on Nov. 8 , they condemned attacks by the Yugoslav National Army on Dubrovnik and other Croatian cities , but they added that recognition for seceding republics " can only be envisaged in the framework of an overall settlement " and that such a settlement had to guarantee the rights of " national or ethnic groups within the individual republics . " |
| 27 | This was said without fear but with considerable surprise , as most certainly such a thought had not crossed his mind for months . |
| 28 | Sinclair thus gave an undertaking that his papers would always remain Unionist , but Steel-Maitland doubted if such a promise had any value . |
| 29 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 30 | This year BGS enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site on Triassic sandstones where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |