Example sentences of "[adj] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , however , the French had two objectives . |
| 2 | By 28 November the French had total control of Haiphong and its airport and harbour . |
| 3 | The French had little room for manoeuvre , and in May 1358 a treaty known as the ‘ First Treaty of London ’ was drawn up , under which Edward was to have a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes . |
| 4 | Again , in the case of Vietnam , this was accompanied by bitter political acrimony , at least on the operational level , between the Americans on the one side , the British and French on the other , about whether or not the French fighting in Vietnam were to be regarded as allies and whether or not the French had any entitlement to resume their pre-war position in Indochina . |
| 5 | He no longer thought the French had any intention of leaving Vietnam . |
| 6 | This had two vices ; the common law concept was vague , and it seems highly likely that the offence was sometimes used to prevent nuisances of a relatively minor kind not aimed at by Parliament . |
| 7 | This had variable effects on work patterns . |
| 8 | This had symbolic significance on the double-gated temple in the Roman Forum , which was open in times of war and closed when peace prevailed . |
| 9 | Naturally this had immediate consequences for the destitute fed by the church chest that rich believers funded . |
| 10 | I mean if this had all sort of come before left we 'd have got it through no problem |
| 11 | er , this had that night er but , one , in one bit it said he said that night they di fa found that Melissico was n't enjoyed talking to them long af till long after the stars came out . |
| 12 | Francesca 's judgement was typically over-judicial and conscientiously unemotional , but this had real force behind it . |
| 13 | Gregory knew he was writing in a rustic style , and he thought that this had certain advantages in terms of its accessibility to the intended audience . |
| 14 | But this list was denied him in other areas and he then used school lists , projecting forward for the people who had left school ; but this had many errors and losses , with people moving home . |
| 15 | There was a prison hospital with twelve beds , but this had little equipment and only basic drugs . |
| 16 | This had little chance of support from Democratic leaders , who seized the opportunity to publicize administration support for tax concessions for the rich . |
| 17 | The correction of the rates by logistic regression slightly increased the width of the confidence intervals , but this had little effect on our conclusions . |
| 18 | A small number of Palestinian workers were permitted to enter Israel from Feb. 10 , but this had little impact on the mounting economic problems in the occupied territories . |
| 19 | For this had revolutionary effects on agriculture , on food manufacture , on retailing , and on diet . |
| 20 | This had ominous implications for a party whose political strength in the 1980s had rested to a large extent on its competence in managing economic prosperity . |
| 21 | Originally this had four towers and a wooden palisade to protect the inhabitants . |
| 22 | This had small panes of glass set in a large cast-iron frame . |
| 23 | But none of this had much importance . |
| 24 | This had serious implications for Chapter III courses as the LEA was not prepared to make any substantial financial contribution in support of rural adult education activities , even though the county 's Secretary for Education , H. M. Spink , was a part-time WEA tutor . |
| 25 | This had serious implications for the ultimate fate of massive stars . |
| 26 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 27 | This had some value , leading old ladies to get up and give me their seat on public transport . |
| 28 | This had some claim to be the hotbed of British fascism in the 1920s owing to the fact that Leese and a colleague had successfully stood for the local council on a British fascist policy in 1924 . |
| 29 | Again , this had some appeal both to the industrial managers of the Federation of British Industry , who had called for ‘ planning ’ at their 1960 conference as a way out of the damaging ‘ stop-go ’ cycle ( Jessop , 1980 ) , and to the party activists for whom ‘ planning ’ meant increased government control over industrial enterprises . |
| 30 | I did n't want to take the time to work this out with my tension swatch ( this had 30 stitches and 44 rows to 10 centimetres ) . |