Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee . |
| 2 | The Christian Democrat-dominated coalition had since 1991 been steadily expanding foreign operations . |
| 3 | Granite rocks that were almost bare in early spring had by late summer acquired a thin growth of brown diatoms ( Navicula , Fragilaria , Achnanthes , Licmophora ) and filamentous green algae ( Ulothrix , Enteromorpha , Cladophora , Monostroma ) , growing upward in a narrow band upward from mean low tide level . |
| 4 | While the Bakufu administration had for several decades been subject to criticisms from within its own ranks , a more serious threat to its supremacy emerged from within domains traditionally hostile to it . |
| 5 | In the second case ( Reg. v. Morris ) the defendant had in similar manner switched price labels on goods in a supermarket but was not arrested until after he had passed the check-out point and paid the lesser prices for the goods . |
| 6 | But the decision for closure had in any case already been made by the predecessor AHA . |
| 7 | His mind had at last found its way back to its usual cast when he heard Sara 's friend talking to her . |
| 8 | The demonstration had at first been banned by the Moscow city soviet . |
| 9 | Many simply went in and out of the factory without showing any emotion at all , relieved that weeks of uncertainty had at last come to an end . |
| 10 | Since then , AT&T has been urging the FCC not to grant BT a licence unless the gesture is reciprocated ; its British rival had until this week been taking a similar line . |
| 11 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 12 | However , the costs appearing in the books of the newly nationalised industry were considerably below these , largely because , while capital charges normally formed a large proportion of the total costs of electricity supply , the industry had in recent years been prevented from investing heavily and most of its inherited equipment stood in the books at prewar values . |
| 13 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 14 | His pleasure at the escape had for some reason given way now to even more sadness in the presence of the eagles that were still caged , as if the escape of one had intensified the sense of imprisonment of the others . |
| 15 | More than half of this came from city organisations , largely due to the good connections which members of the appeal committee had with such institutions . |
| 16 | The Scientific Committee had in previous years expressed concern about the Dall 's porpoise harpoon fishery , fearing that even the much smaller annual catch may not have been sustainable , since Japanese scientists had calculated a replacement rate of only about 5000 porpoises each year . |
| 17 | the Eve Committee had in 1967 raised the academic entry requirement to the university standard , a minimum of two A levels |
| 18 | They had had high priority since the fuel crisis of February 1947 , but boilers and site work had in many cases been delayed ( mainly because of steel shortages ) so that 300–400MW of plant completed by the turbo-alternator manufacturers had had to be put in store for a year or more . |
| 19 | The Polish economist Kalecki , whose work had in other ways anticipated that of Keynes , had predicted just such a development a quarter of a century earlier : |
| 20 | This dream had at last come true , for Lennie anyway , perhaps not in the way he had expected though . |
| 21 | Recent legislation had improved matters , however ; the 1833 Factory Act prohibited the employment of young children and the 1847 Ten Hours Act had at last given working people some time for recreation . |
| 22 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 23 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 24 | It examined and rejected the proposition that a general right of privacy should be legally recognised , pointing out that this was not the way in which English law had in recent centuries sought to protect the main democratic rights of citizens — neither the right of free speech nor the right of free assembly being embodied in statute law , for example . |
| 25 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 26 | Part of his objection may also have been that one 's trade and one 's home had in most cases parted company by that date , a development that William Morris was later to deplore . |
| 27 | An ultimatum had at last been agreed , which gave Hitler until eleven o'clock next morning to withdraw from Poland lock , stock and barrel . |
| 28 | If this vacuum is filled , however episodically , by the use of disinhibiting substances , then whatever hold the child had on disciplined , co-operative behaviour is likely to be undermined . |
| 29 | Cos I 've got the ones that Budgie had like that . |
| 30 | By the mid eighteenth century the rise of tin and copper mining had in any event produced a precarious balance between local grain supplies and a growing population . |