Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But also the large Friedrichstadt Stadtteil ( in today 's Mitte ) which had 76,350 inhabitants in 1871 had only 33,505 in 1913 .
2 So Alfred had laced his own brandy and taken it to the little hut which had youthful associations , there to kill himself in a manner that was almost ceremonial .
3 The War Department formed the three sides of an internal quadrangle , entered by an arched carriageway from the long sides of the site , while the Foreign Office , which had internal courts , formed the fourth side .
4 The race was only open to vehicles which ran on unorthodox fuels , or which had internal combustion engines modified for greater energy efficiency .
5 The Report of the Data Protection Committee was published late in 1978 , a bad time for political initiatives : within a few months the new Conservative Government was in office and contenting itself with a fresh and laborious round of further consultations — there seemed little likelihood of anything being done until , in 1981 , the Council of Europe , as part of its concern with human rights , opened its ‘ Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Data Processing ’ for signature by States which had appropriate legislation enacted .
6 At first , the trade preferred wild-caught pelts , which had denser underfur and better resistance to fading .
7 On appeal against conviction under the 1978 Construction and Use Regulations from the Humberside Justices sitting at Barton-upon-Humber , Stephen Brown LJ and Skinner J were asked to determine whether on the facts of the case a fork-lift truck , which had defective tyres and was being used on a road , was a motor vehicle for the purposes of the Road Traffic Act 1972 .
8 This paper reports the main findings from the first national audit of asthma attacks ( 1991–2 ) , which had two aims — to describe the characteristics of asthma attacks in the community , and to compare current management with recommended guidelines .
9 The western Greens merged on Dec. 3 with their eastern sister party , which had two Bundestag deputies elected on the Alliance 90/Green ticket .
10 This case was covered only by the Sun , which had two reports under the headlines Gay ‘ Killed with Chain' and DOG-CHAIN SEX KILLER JAILED .
11 The buildings include a stone temple ; a ‘ palace ’ of two halls , with wall-paintings ; and the souk or marketplace , which had two storeys of shops and storerooms , surrounded by a heavy wall .
12 There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance .
13 I was enrolled at once in the village school which had two teachers who were sisters , one taking all the younger classes and the other the older children .
14 There was also controversy at the time when the East Belfast MP claimed the new station , with its one fire engine , could not provide as much cover as Castlereagh , which had two appliances .
15 But his bathroom was in the conservatory , which had two doors on to the garden where his wife grew plants , and as she left these doors open all morning his part of the house was apt to be colder than anywhere .
16 In a regiment which had two men shot for cowardice , Reg Glen , now a hundred , says those executed did n't deserve dishonour or death .
17 Unlikely as this is , Minton was nevertheless a welcome visitor to Lehmann 's cottage near Three Bridges in Sussex , acquired in 1951 , and which had two acres of land and a miniature lake .
18 at Mansfield which had two stations then , Great Central and the old London , Midland , Scottish , which was one of my delights anyway , engines were , er they were to me .
19 I idly picked up one of the leaflets which had two pictures on its cover ; the first illustration showed a happy black family , all neatly dressed and reading books around a table that was filled with platefuls of food and with jugs labelled ‘ milk ’ .
20 Many hundred meeting places were at ancient sites in the landscape like barrows or stones , where they could have taken place for millennia , while others were at places which had other functions as well , such as centres of royal or ecclesiastical estates which coincided with hundredal arrangements .
21 Farm workers could instead be housed in tied cottages which had other advantages in addition to providing suitable accommodation , not least of which were the convenience of having workers on call , the greater stability tied housing conferred on the labour force , and the reinforcement of ties of dependency .
22 Did he have other pebbles er which had other cures ?
23 Within half a century of Anselm 's death the only traces of the once-active policy were to be found in the ecclesiastical calendar used by the church of Dublin , which had many peculiarities of Canterbury origin .
24 From here I went to the Asprey , Mallett of Bourdon House , and S J Phillips stands , all of which had many treasures I coveted .
25 It is apparent from the Second Book of Maccabees that at least some Jewish circles admitted the claim — which had many parallels in the Hellenistic world .
26 Monarchy was almost the rule in Europe , which had many republicans , but few republics .
27 There was a stairway leading from our form room which had good acoustics and we 'd sit there on the steps , and I 'd be playing guitar and David would be singing .
28 Reunification was the perfect economic takeover for West Germany , which had excess capital to invest and a shortage of skilled labour .
29 The MAI stake is down from 25 p.c. to 7 p.c. and the holding of Virtus — the French company which had 26 p.c. — has dropped to 8 p.c .
30 In which case , it would be the mother 's behaviour , rather than any brain damage , which had causal significance .
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