Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can summarize a complex process by suggesting that since 1979 central government has tried to extend market provision and market coordination into areas in which non-market , governmental or hierarchical coordination had previously been the norm . |
| 2 | Since the start of the intifada in December 1987 , Israeli soldiers or Israeli settlers had shot and killed at least 850 Palestinians the majority of whom , according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups , were throwing stones . |
| 3 | Home Office guidelines suggested that refugees from religious , racial or political persecution had the strongest case for a C registration . |
| 4 | For Marx , what was most important in the gens is that it was a group based totally on communal principles , where individuality and selfishness did not exist and where private property had not begun to appear . |
| 5 | In earlier times carved or painted tombstones had occasionally been used . |
| 6 | However , in families where only the father had achieved literacy , child mortality is lower than in others where neither parent had done so . |
| 7 | But it can not be used as a way of endowing anyone with authority where that person had none . |
| 8 | He straightened the folds , and ran his fingers through the dead youth 's thick thatch of reddish-brown hair , up from the nape to the rounding at the back of the head , where that seam had rested , and surely helped to break the force of the blow . |
| 9 | She showed me the marks on the back of her knuckles and her wrist where that bitch had walloped her with a rod of some sort , right from the first day . ’ |
| 10 | The Pope implied that apostolic or divine inspiration had led to the crowning , Charles was therefore ‘ crowned by God ’ . |
| 11 | Bringing virtually everyone into hospital to have their babies meant the ‘ luxury ’ of an eight or ten-day stay had to go . |
| 12 | He had managed to haul himself into a position where he gave rather more and received rather fewer orders and proceeded to look around to see how he could get out of the insurance office where economic necessity had landed him and where he had learned only a flashy taste in clothes and stationery . |
| 13 | It cited Chapter VII of the UN Charter , which authorized the use of force where economic embargo had failed . |
| 14 | Tearing into the Instrument , some behave ‘ as if they had been in the schools , where each man had liberty to propose his own Utopia , and to frame commonwealths according to his own fancy … |
| 15 | Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’ |
| 16 | For him it was like a gigantic acrostic , an alchemist 's shop where each object had a mysterious value , an inner history that had to be deduced , unravelled , guessed at . |
| 17 | Notice that , unlike the accumulator array , where each accumulator had generalized functions , each control register or portion of a register has a specific function , although it is accessed or manipulated by instructions in a general way . |
| 18 | During the summer a fleet under Admiral Byng was despatched to keep watch on the Channel ports and early in September it appeared off Le Havre , where , Lord Stair had reported , some seven or eight ships had been hired under a false name and loaded with 10,000 ‘ stand of arms ’ , i.e. muskets and ammunition sufficient for that number of men . |
| 19 | The diagnosis of Crohn 's disease or ulcerative colitis had previously been made on the basis of repeated colonoscopy , histological tests , and contrast radiography , and all specimens showed histological evidence of inflammation . |
| 20 | I saw a river-bed , biting deep into the land , but nothing to suggest that a lake had ever been there or that man had ever trod there . |
| 21 | But then the BBC or Radio Free Europe would confirm the incomprehensible that this president or that queen had honoured Ceauşescu . |
| 22 | Lule Isakovic , a prominent Serbian writer and leading member of the Academy , said to him , ‘ If only this or that person had come , you 'd have gone through . |
| 23 | For a minute Isabel thought she 'd said the words aloud , or that fitzAlan had . |
| 24 | Or that Mother had gone to Belgium for a year after she left school to teach English in a convent . |
| 25 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 26 | It was apparently Da Ponte who persuaded the emperor to pass the text , telling him that all scenes which might offend good taste or public decency had been excised . |
| 27 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 28 | I recall a fine falconry work where some plates had been extracted by the owner for this purpose , a Peter Pan Portfolio despoiled by a feminine hand , and a number of other examples . |
| 29 | She remembered a scene like this from a film , where some men had bee n shooting rapids on a river somewhere in America and their boat had capsized . |
| 30 | The fabric crumbled instantly in the hot dry air , leaving only a dangling mesh where some threads had been plaited with fine gold wire . |