Example sentences of "[conj] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No regular soldier I ever knew wore cross bandoleers , or had long hair held back by a headband . |
| 2 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 3 | And er , as I say , observing this and watching Hector 's work and how things have gone on over the years , er as you know , there 's been a tremendous revival of interest in driving , so many people have er , restored carts or had new ones built and erm the young farriers who 've never had the experience with driving horses , they have run into problems with erm , keeping them going soundly and overcoming problems which crop up when horses are driven on the road a lot . |
| 4 | The consequences for a purchaser of receiving an unlawful distribution are provided by CA 1985 , s277 and will essentially require a purchaser , who at the time of distribution , knew or had reasonable grounds for believing that it was an unlawful distribution sale , to be made liable to repay the distribution to the vendor . |
| 5 | It is probable that these individuals were well and asymptomatic or had minimal symptoms . |
| 6 | It was found that schools which experienced budget cuts due to the formula had higher costs because they were small or had surplus places . |
| 7 | Most of the brains of the organisation , or those academics who were able to pull Establishment strings and make the best of college connections , were billeted fairly comfortably near B.P. or had private transport , and were therefore able to take part in the social life that was organised for the community . |
| 8 | As I have said before , the intellectual aristocracy of B.P. , who lived near the Park or had private transport , were able to take part in many home-made activities , such as the pleasure of organising and playing in small domestic chamber concerts , or chess , bridge , tennis , dancing , and amateur dramatics . |
| 9 | They asked : were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible ? |
| 10 | I had continued since , working for friends and neighbours who were ill or had legal problems . |
| 11 | Information extracted included date of birth , relevant medical and surgical history , date of onset of symptoms , date of diagnosis ( histological/radiological ) , disease extent ( barium enema/colonoscopy ) , surveillance colonoscopy date and findings , biopsy site and histological findings , and present status if known ; ( c ) cases of cancer in association with colitis were identified from histopathology department records that document all colitis patients who developed dysplasia , cancer , or had colonic surgery since 1978 . |
| 12 | This has proved itself with divers who have vomited in their mask or had mechanical failures and have had to remove their mask . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it was good to meet lots of different people but on the other hand , I have never really felt settled or had lifelong friends like most people , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Or had that transition occurred without her noticing it ? |
| 15 | We have n't taken one wrong turn or had one row since getting in . |
| 16 | Of those 363 hotel pools , 31% were found to have inadequate or no rescue equipment and 21% lacked or had insufficient pool surround fitments . |
| 17 | The leading spirits behind the club were Major Yeats Brown , the Bengal Lancer , Dr Robert Forgan , deputy leader of the BUF , Sir Donald Makgill and Captain Luttman Johnson , all of whom where either members of the BUF or had close connections with Mosley . |
| 18 | The second was on the employed ( many of whom had either personal experience of unemployment or had close family or friends who were unemployed ) . |
| 19 | Such analysis can be approached in two major ways : one can either take all those who were sustained at home for , say , six months or l2 months from referral in both action and control samples , and compare the two groups in order to see whether — as one would expect if the project were successful — those still at home in the control sample were less disadvantaged in home care terms , less poorly circumstanced or had fewer problems than those in the action samples . |
| 20 | Labour was no longer as efficient as machinery and new systems of agricultural organisation and , as a result , the peasantry ( who had owned or had common rights to work the land in their villages ) were gradually forced off the land to become wage labourers . |
| 21 | Parents of the subjects had a glucose tolerance test ( n=48 ) or had fasting plasma glucose and glycated haemoglobin concentrations measured ( n=52 ) . |
| 22 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 23 | None of the patients were alcoholic or had any history of small intestinal disease , gastric operation , or small bowel resection and had not lost more than 10% of body weight in the six months preceding the study . |
| 24 | Or had any right to . |
| 25 | I just signed forms to say that I was no longer responsible or had any claim on the property or whatever . |
| 26 | Pauline Kael in The New Yorker felt that if Ben , who had nothing to communicate , had ‘ said anything or had any ideas , the audience would probably hate him … |
| 27 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 28 | That obligation , it was contended , arose although the original tenant never authorised , or knew of , or had any connection whatever with , the agreement or other process whereby the amount of the new rent was determined . |
| 29 | It was certainly good to read that so many people had never felt healthier or had more energy ; and I was gratified to hear from those who had previously attempted to diet but without success that this diet had worked for them . |
| 30 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |