Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Protestant reformers wanted to return as far as possible to the spirit of primitive Christianity and looked askance at the mystical tradition which seemed to have no warrant in Scripture . |
| 2 | The decision to break was not taken in haste , but the culmination of years of little niggles which seemed to have no end in sight . |
| 3 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 4 | They loved Polly 's garden which seemed to have a magic of its own . |
| 5 | The drawers were traditionally constructed using olivewood , which seemed to have a similar grain pattern to the ebony , but in negative . |
| 6 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |
| 7 | When in August 1988 the overstretched Health Authority belatedly sent out a questionnaire enquiring about symptoms that might have been suffered as a result of drinking the water , one went to 450 ‘ occupants ’ of a graveyard in St Tudy , which happened to have a tap in one corner . |
| 8 | In fact , with the exception of Hebrew and cognate semitic languages which attracted Jewish or biblical scholars and some work on Finno-Ugrian languages ( which happened to have a central-European representative in Hungary ) , not much outside the Indo-European languages had been systematically studied in the countries in which mid-nineteenth-century philology flourished . |
| 9 | By Summer 1964 the decision had been made to extend Doctor Who 's life by another season , which meant having a new series ready to start screening by the autumn of that year . |
| 10 | Waste ore is a somewhat obscure term and in this context might refer to the residual sand and gravel , which did have a market of sorts . |
| 11 | We 're going to be looking at the contrast between that and places like Rye , which did have a chartered corporation , and we 're going to be looking at sort of trade , at the effects of epidemics on the town , erm and so on . |
| 12 | We 're going to be looking at erm the contrast between and places like Rye , which did have a chartered corporation , and we 're going to be looking at sort of trade , at the effects of epidemics on the town erm and so on . |
| 13 | Haslam found this a rather passive role compared to running a business himself , so when he was asked to become ICI 's personnel director he jumped at the opportunity to tackle a job which appeared to have a higher executive content . |
| 14 | What we 've come forward now is , through is a series of proposals , now these would apply to all , all of these , there was some concern at the meeting that we did n't of them , which appeared to have no , no chance at all as I told you , so all of these issues would actually apply to all of them , but the kind of things that are talked about , is trying to get a , a standard of systems throughout Shropshire so we need the importance of the way they , they sell a fruit shop within , within a , a rural are a rural village . |
| 15 | Tracing the origins of Chinese civilisation back to the Yellow River ( Huanghe ) , the ‘ cradle ’ of the nation 's culture , a basic contradiction was noted which continued to have a profound effect on the people . |
| 16 | Having just lost out to Alan Alda in 1966 for the forthcoming Broadway comedy The Apple Tree , directed by Mike Nichols , but nonetheless now confirmed as a top off-Broadway character actor , Dustin landed the lead in Livings ' Eh ? , which had had a great success at the Aldwych Theatre , London , in Peter Hall 's Royal Shakespeare Company production exactly two years previously . |
| 17 | Canada announced on Dec. 11 that it would begin withdrawing on June 15 , 1993 , its contingent of 575 troops serving with the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP — which had had a Canadian element since its establishment in 1964 ) ; the 341-member Danish contingent began to pull out on Dec. 16 . |
| 18 | Rats with hypercholecystokininaemia which had had a pancreaticobiliary diversion ( PBD ) operation and sham operated rats served as controls . |
| 19 | Since 1981 , she suffered from Crohn 's disease , which had had a complicated course . |
| 20 | Take the case of a hypothetical economy which had had no experience of inflation in its recent history so that the rate of inflation which was expected to take place over the foreseeable future was zero . |
| 21 | But it was the Greek islands on which his attention was finally fastened , notably Hydra ( Ydra ) in the Saronic Gulf , which had had an artistic community on it for some years . |
| 22 | This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck . |
| 23 | It only remains to emphasise that the new Parliamentary Labour Party was socially far more representative of the country as a whole than the party of 1935 onwards , and that its leadership , which had had the experience of participation in government during the war , was able to assume the reins of office without any of the difficulties that Ramsay MacDonald encountered in forming his minority governments in 1924 and 1929 . |
| 24 | While there was therefore a move towards a single national agency of finance , this was not fully achieved and the divisions which remained had no obvious rationale . |
| 25 | For the few months before the Gulf crisis , the political world dissolved and what existed had no clear shape ; its familiar forms — the nations and empires — had no clear trajectory . |
| 26 | The only people what did have a motor in that , at that particular time was the harbourmaster of Pinn Mill cos they always used to call er er er one bloke down there who used to moor the ships up at Bottoman 's Bay and er th th th he used to get a retainer from the Ipswich Dock Commission and all he w all he had to do was make sure that was clear of , for shipping , if there was a yacht in the way he 'd go and tell them to move and he was what the we used to call him Pinn Mill Harbourmaster . |
| 27 | We had screens on wheels in latter years at , last few years at school and er he used to go down to the tea room for a cup of tea half way down the stairs , the teachers ' room and perhaps go toilet as well , and er the one at the back was a foot out from the screen and every now and then he 'd have a look to see if he was coming and er we , what had had a big case with birds in and the lads who were doing it looked in this , saw the reflection and shh he 's coming . |