Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Yanks had in fact had them for some months in the Scullery apartment . |
| 2 | Such treatment may reflect the readership the authors had in mind . |
| 3 | The Lords of the Congregation could rightly assert the duty and responsibility of the nobility to act for the good of the commonweal , and indeed experience of minorities over two centuries had in practice underwritten the theoretical position to an unusual extent . |
| 4 | Needless to say , plants had to evolve before animals : i.e. they had to become the food for which primitive animals had in turn to colonize the land to seek . |
| 5 | So whether you 're tidying away some of those large toys that the kids had for Christmas , and have got fed-up with , storing a few treasures in the loft , using it as a laundry or shopping basket , or even to clear up the garden rubbish , the ‘ Monster ’ will take it . |
| 6 | Within two days of the discovery that funds had in fact been diverted , Poindexter was obliged to resign ; North was fired ; and the open-mouthed press descended like locusts . |
| 7 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 8 | In returning to the old imagery of the prince as the bearer of the sword , the reformers had in fact triggered off an important set of associations . |
| 9 | Purists had of course drawn on medical and evolutionary concepts , but always with the proviso that they were subordinate to the dictates of a higher morality . |
| 10 | The asylums had of course long predated the bifurcation of health and welfare in the centralized system . |
| 11 | The presence of the provision , however , suggests that kadis had in practice been making their way back into the medrese stream , though it may well never have been intended that they should do so . |
| 12 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 13 | The same complainant companies had in fact been involved in an earlier domestic US anti-trust case against IBM . |
| 14 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 15 | The General Commissioners had in mind that the fact that the platform was used solely for storage , and its size , were not conclusive against its being plant . |
| 16 | That was not what apartheid 's engineers had in mind . |
| 17 | .. roughly what the directors had in mind . |
| 18 | Cristiani then told a news conference that it was not clear whether the logbooks had in fact been burnt , that Hernandez had ordered one of the defendants to make them " available " , and that it remained to be determined what subsequently happened to them . |
| 19 | Nursing staff from the in-patient unit experienced many of the same problems towards the out-patient teams as residential workers had in relation to fieldworkers . |
| 20 | Although regular army numbers had been increased from 10,500 to 11,000 in November [ see p. 38588 ] , these 500 additional troops had in fact returned to England before Christmas ; the Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke conceded on Jan. 9 that " you might take the view with hindsight that a different decision could have been taken " . |
| 21 | But if you have the attitude the Egyptians had towards death … |
| 22 | Then there were no permanent senior residents in the department as now , and all the housemen had to double-up as C.O.s [ Casualty Officers ] here and housemen in the wards . |
| 23 | It is evident that the tourist whom railway companies , hotels and guide-books had in mind belonged to the comfortably-off middle classes . |
| 24 | Given the pressures of external demands , the size of the diocese , and the problems of travelling to over 300 parishes , most bishops and their officers had to content themselves with regular exhortations and punishing the worst , or least skilful , clerical offenders . |
| 25 | Andropov set out his general approach to such matters in a speech in the spring of 1983 in which he emphasised that the Soviet Union was ‘ only at the beginning ’ of the long historical stage of developed socialism ; there must be no exaggeration of the country 's closeness to communism , and no attempt to minimise the difficulties that lay ahead Discussing the party programme more directly , Andropov told the Central Committee in June 1983 that many of its directives had in fact been realised : links between citizens and deputies , for instance , had become closer , and national discussion of major items of legislation had become a well-established practice . |
| 26 | What these mathematicians had in common with most of those who worked in laboratories was that the majority were attached to universities . |
| 27 | Furthermore , they doubted whether the new , austere Protestant beliefs had in fact appealed to the laity , suggesting instead that Protestantism proved highly unpopular and was only imposed on the English people through force , by means of a government-sponsored process which met with great difficulties , and was only completed late in Elizabeth I 's reign . |
| 28 | FURIOUS rail passengers had to fork out for taxis yesterday — the day BR increased their fares . |
| 29 | It will be easy to pick out from these products the types of learning objective that might have been achieved ; one hopes that in general these correlated with those the teachers had in mind from the beginning , and that they learnt from their examination of the results . |
| 30 | At first sight the microscope would seem to be just the sort of classical measuring instrument that Bohr and his friends had in mind . |