Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No such route was possible or had probably ever been possible . |
| 2 | Others , including the Queen herself , by her own later account , were happy that it was so French and had so little Iranian personality to it . |
| 3 | Chris was nearly 5 years old and had just entered his infant reception class . |
| 4 | The car was , after all , three years old and had over 50,000 miles on the clock . |
| 5 | The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy . |
| 6 | Another rumour countered that she had always been unpleasant and had thus never had a love-affair , unhappy or otherwise . |
| 7 | As the Lada sped towards St Petersburg , the hostages were being moved into a spacious townhouse that was now empty and had once been a district governor 's home . |
| 8 | A game , he confessed , in which he was deeply interested but had very little skill . |
| 9 | And yet , since the start of May , there has been reason to think it would have been less bloody than had previously been feared . |
| 10 | This showed conclusively that Thoresby 's contents were far more complete than had previously been realized and , with relatively little rearrangement , could have been put back as they appeared in early photographs . |
| 11 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 12 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 13 | One affected to be lame and had probably become so by constant practice . |
| 14 | So Jules was right and had once again proved his astuteness , Alice thought . |
| 15 | He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl . |
| 16 | By the age of 12 , she was only the size of an eight-year-old and had already undergone two operations to straighten her legs . |
| 17 | In the circumstances the defendants had done that which was reasonably practicable and had thereby satisfied the duty of care imposed upon them . |
| 18 | Realising that her crossness with Vendelin Gajdusek had been short-lived and had quickly faded , Fabia was left to worry about Cara , and Barney , and the interview which by rights should now be over , but which had n't begun yet . |
| 19 | It was high-necked and had long tight sleeves and a straight line to the floor , where it flared out at the back into a huge swirling fishtail train . |
| 20 | She was profoundly upset and had never really recovered from the shock . |
| 21 | ‘ I consider that in enacting the Damages ( Scotland ) Act , parliament did not consider that it was making any change to the right of parents to sue for damages for the death of a child who had sustained injuries prior to birth , had been born alive and had subsequently died in consequence of these pre-natal injuries . ’ |
| 22 | She was n't much over five feet tall and had dead white skin , pipestem arms and a broad grin like a cartoon character . |
| 23 | The man was around 5ft 4ins tall and had fair coloured hair . |
| 24 | A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made . |
| 25 | He faced the challenge of Dunluce , a 6860-yard , par 73 giant that had already brought quite a few players to their knees , among them title favourite Phil Tataurangi . |
| 26 | He would show that mathematics could be reduced to something even more simple , more general , more basic than had hitherto been supposed , to logical concepts , and , moreover , at the same time , he would be able to exhibit the internal logical structure of mathematics in a much more rigorous way . |
| 27 | Department of the Foreign Office , who was possessed of a sense of the fatuous that had often threatened to wreck his career . |
| 28 | Then on December 31 , right before they started ringing in the new tax year , executive vice president Ron Lachman wrote out a cheque to Systemhouse buying back the piece of Interactive that had originally been the most famous part of the old Lachman Associates ( UX No 220 ) . |
| 29 | After a short time , some of the braver members of the group drew up their courage to watch West Germany v The United Arab Emirates on the portable black and white that had mysteriously disappeared from the bedroom of 43a St. Clements and reappeared in the canteen room of the Family Centre . |
| 30 | This emperor would be the secular arm of the pope following papal policies : in some ways a simplistic interpretation of the Donation of Constantine , perhaps — the return to an ideal that had never existed . |