Example sentences of "[conj] had [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Or had that transition occurred without her noticing it ?
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Or had any right to .
7 I just signed forms to say that I was no longer responsible or had any claim on the property or whatever .
8 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 …
9 But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Nor had any alarm bells rung about Thomas .
14 The Council explained that the operating centre had no relevant planning permission nor had any application for change of use been made to the Council .
15 He had felt no pain , nor had any indication that , even though he appeared fit enough to play in the First Division , he was about to become a victim of coronary problems .
16 For comparison , of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted none had suffered from bacterial pneumonia , nor had any participant been treated for complications of his HIV infection .
17 On the other hand , Jenner introduced vaccination when he neither knew nor had any means of knowing anything about viruses .
18 I was alone in the darkness in one of those old-fashioned six seater compartments , and I neither knew nor had any means of knowing whether my family was alive or dead .
19 I 'm not sure , but I think it was Mr that had that bungalow built .
20 that was one of mu un uncles that had that house and Well my cousins have it now .
21 Have you got the erm that paper that had that sort of erm
22 Supply-side economics is probably the perspective that had least credibility academically but most credibility politically .
23 Troops had to use 1977 tourist maps that had such points of interest as nutmeg factories instead of the grid coordinates needed in battle .
24 Holiday schemes , in other words , during the Christmas , er , particularly the summer holidays was extremely full in our areas that had these schemes , but it is true to say that some of the children did not pay their full amount .
25 ‘ We are confident that had these words [ sc .
26 At least , not in any sense that had any bearing on the case .
27 Incidentally , it was the only part of the so-called garden that had any depth of soil at all ; the rest was very sparsely covered .
28 A thing to be forgotten , and certainly not something that had any power in the present except that of a distant unhappy memory .
29 According to this , she was a student — the only part of the whole application , aside from her name , that had any truth to it .
30 Those that had any length of time in , they had a hand-out .
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