Example sentences of "[adv] had [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1930s not only had admission to a profession become the goal of every middle-class family in the land , but they had come to seem bulwarks of society . |
| 2 | It is easy to forget that the Lutyens team of craftsmen only had access to traditional methods and materials . |
| 3 | Essentially , therefore , the provisions only had application to income falling within the first limb . |
| 4 | The charge that the USA was abusing , rather than simply using , its position , only had weight to the extent that the United States was putting pressure on central banks abroad not to convert more of their dollars into gold . |
| 5 | Bell , the Company 's Managing Director , explained why it was in the interests of the Company 's policyholders that levels of reversionary bonuses not only had regard to the investment outlook but also preserved the Company 's ability to invest freely so that its total performance would not be adversely affected . |
| 6 | But he could n't enlighten them : he only had orders to ‘ paint the place up a bit ’ . |
| 7 | We can hardly resist the conclusion that the parish officers only had recourse to the policy of subsidizing wages wherever the attraction of urban industry made itself felt too weakly , leaving a pool of surplus manpower and substandard wages . |
| 8 | He was able to checkmate the French evolutionists ' efforts to use the duck-billed platypus as a link between reptiles and mammals because he alone had access to a good supply of specimens . |
| 9 | If everyone in society outside had opportunities to be in touch with their feelings in work , education and creative living , fewer would end up in prison . |
| 10 | Inner London authorities normally had access to funds via Central Personnel/Management Budgets , for example : |
| 11 | Maturities vary but they tend to be longer than those for conventional stocks ; only three of the 13 stocks outstanding at end-September , 1991 had maturity dates before the end of the century and several still had terms to maturity in excess of 20 years . |
| 12 | Though ca n't say I ever had call to . ’ |
| 13 | In this connection , it is interesting that many of the restrictions on economic life in the Pentateuch were to ensure that each family always had access to part of the society 's capital — namely a plot of land and some animals . |
| 14 | He also had claims to be considered a genuine all-rounder , having played many attacking innings in the lower middle order . |
| 15 | Bede also had access to the library collected by Bishop Acca at Hexham . |
| 16 | They also had access to equipment and resources not available at college . |
| 17 | A secretary inevitably had access to highly confidential information : as Pecquet wrote in the early eighteenth century , " silence , loyalty and secrecy should reign in every secretariat " . |
| 18 | Natural parents often had access to children guaranteed under a court order and foster parents had to be committed to support for ‘ parental responsibility ’ , which could cause difficulties , said Miss Marion Lowe , the association 's director . |
| 19 | Although , apart from lapis lazuli , supplies of all these were available in Egypt and Sinai , Egyptian craftsmen often had recourse to coloured glass to infill cloisonné cells . |
| 20 | Like a raider , he had swooped on a series of nightclubs , probably before their owners even had time to fully appreciate what had hit them . |
| 21 | One can be confident that those responsible for such productions sometimes had access to valuable oral and written information which no longer survives . |
| 22 | Fortunately , none of this means that their work can simply be tossed overboard , for two examples should suffice to prove the contention that writers subsequent to Cnut 's day sometimes had access to important evidence . |
| 23 | Interestingly , these second visits were never successful , and interviewers then had recourse to the back-up lists . |
| 24 | He rarely had recourse to it . |
| 25 | ‘ In summary she submitted that the local authority should bear the costs of the application of the father because at the time of his application the local authority either had access to all the information or they had access to all the information available to the guardian . |
| 26 | At the begining of the second half England again had cause to be grateful as a marvellous five-man move graced by Tarasiewicz 's stunning volleyed pass ended with Ziober drifting a benign shot over . |
| 27 | Prussia however had access to neither of these as a way of financing industrial change . |
| 28 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 29 | Both came from peasant stock of considerable longevity , but the presence of Nicolae 's mother-in-law in her late nineties was evidence that Elena Ceauşescu could expect to live well into the twenty-first century — and she certainly had plans to be in charge then too . |
| 30 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |