Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd learned that Ben and Carole Meadows were staying at their beach-front cottage Laura had somehow assumed that it would be a very small , modest building . |
| 2 | Later there were claims that armed Fatah supporters had entered the campus in order to sway the results of student council elections . |
| 3 | The question of a separate European defence identity had also dominated meetings in Paris on May 27 between Cheney and senior French officials . |
| 4 | European defence co-operation had been made less likely in 1973 by the admission of neutral Eire to the EC . |
| 5 | They were never united in their opposition to the king , and they never found a leader comparable to Hereford and Norfolk in 1297 or Thomas of Lancaster in 1310–11 ; but their opposition reveals the fragility of the political settlement Edward had achieved after 1330 , and the danger that his close associates who had helped him to power might now be seen as a new court clique , the king 's familiares . |
| 6 | He wanted to give comfort , and protect her from the cruel blow life had dealt her . |
| 7 | In effect the European computer industry had already by summer 1984 obtained IBM 's agreement to the OSI requirement and this — not anti-monopoly — was now Europe 's chosen route . |
| 8 | In that moo , Jinny caught an echo of the bellowing noise Florence had made earlier in the year when they took her calf away . |
| 9 | It was the first complete sentence Annie had said . |
| 10 | All four sources also independently confirmed that on 9 December 1988 , Israeli Defence Forces had captured documents in a raid on a PFLP — GC base near Damour , Lebanon , which disclosed plans to bomb a Pan Am flight out of Frankfurt by the end of that month . |
| 11 | The Financial Times of July 27 reported that the Israeli Defence Ministry had confirmed that plots of land in the occupied territories were to be given free of charge to Jewish people wishing to settle . |
| 12 | Foster has concluded that by the second decade of the nineteenth century , the well-organised mule spinners had " fought themselves " to near parity with London 's building craftsmen . |
| 13 | Talks between GM and other European truck manufacturers had failed to produce the collaboration that GM wanted . |
| 14 | Space was at such a premium here that the narrow side streets had long since been filled with structures . |
| 15 | Patients were disimpacted and then treated with dietary fibre and daily milk of magnesia , and the laxative was slowly discontinued once normal bowel movements had been accomplished . |
| 16 | As reported on Aug. 23 a $244,000,000 economic aid agreement had been signed with the USA to support the economic recovery programme , $130,000,000 of which would used towards payment of debt arrears . |
| 17 | Depressed living standards had affected ordinary Nigerians , while certain sectors of society had visibly profited , particularly some elements of the armed forces . |
| 18 | The opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell pressed the point and eventually , on 14 May , Eden was forced to admit that an underwater spying operation had been carried out against the Russian ships by Crabb but that it had been done without official approval . |
| 19 | Agricultural export subsidies had been the crucial stumbling block on which this round of GATT talks foundered in December 1990 [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 20 | It was reported on Sept. 17 that the Federation of European Stock Exchanges had agreed to initiate a shared electronic market information service for the 200-300 largest companies in the new EC equity market , but no firm timetable was set for the move . |
| 21 | The tall carriage entrance had a clock with a black face and gilt Roman numerals in its small pediment , the yard paved with small , sunk cobbles with moss between . |
| 22 | The long , narrow living room had to accommodate an assortment of furniture — two navy sofas , a floral sofa , almond-green curtains and a TV set , not to mention a variety of side furniture in different woods . |
| 23 | She was sick with wretchedness , convinced she had only herself to blame — and of course the devastating effect Paula had on men — but still puzzled that it could have ended so suddenly without a word of explanation on his part . |
| 24 | By 1870 the major European trunk lines had been established and it was a matter of filling in the network , a process that continued until the end of the century . |
| 25 | The largest , the Prince 's Dock , was begun in 1811 and on its completion in 1821 the total dock acreage had reached 37 ( though this is put into perspective by a seven-fold increase over the next sixty years ) . |
| 26 | After the second bond issue ( by which time half the total programme allocation had been made ) investor participation through the EPL was excluded . |
| 27 | Normal excretion values had been obtained in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome ( n=14 ) who excreted 0.5% ( mean ) with an upper limit of normal at 1% . |
| 28 | Some thought that far too many opulent and now half-empty movie palaces had been built for the elusive fashionable trade whilst others detected a more general dulling of the palate as the masses lost their enthusiasm for the old stories and seemed all too ready for something new . |
| 29 | This was despite the fact that two state prosecutors in the Jesuit murder case had resigned and that the FMLN had recently ended a five-week military offensive in accordance with a further US congressional stipulation for the maintenance of the military aid ban . |
| 30 | The radial Spanish trunk network had to contend with one of the most difficult geographies in Europe , which means that most routes from Madrid to the coast have to cross at least one mountain range , while in Britain the major centres are connected across relatively easy terrain . |