Example sentences of "[coord] had [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 2 | Or had that transition occurred without her noticing it ? |
| 3 | Such analysis can be approached in two major ways : one can either take all those who were sustained at home for , say , six months or l2 months from referral in both action and control samples , and compare the two groups in order to see whether — as one would expect if the project were successful — those still at home in the control sample were less disadvantaged in home care terms , less poorly circumstanced or had fewer problems than those in the action samples . |
| 4 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 5 | None of the patients were alcoholic or had any history of small intestinal disease , gastric operation , or small bowel resection and had not lost more than 10% of body weight in the six months preceding the study . |
| 6 | Or had any right to . |
| 7 | I just signed forms to say that I was no longer responsible or had any claim on the property or whatever . |
| 8 | Pauline Kael in The New Yorker felt that if Ben , who had nothing to communicate , had ‘ said anything or had any ideas , the audience would probably hate him … |
| 9 | But very few had ever been to sea or had any desire to do so or had anything in common with seamen . |
| 10 | That obligation , it was contended , arose although the original tenant never authorised , or knew of , or had any connection whatever with , the agreement or other process whereby the amount of the new rent was determined . |
| 11 | It was certainly good to read that so many people had never felt healthier or had more energy ; and I was gratified to hear from those who had previously attempted to diet but without success that this diet had worked for them . |
| 12 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |
| 13 | Nor had any alarm bells rung about Thomas . |
| 14 | The Council explained that the operating centre had no relevant planning permission nor had any application for change of use been made to the Council . |
| 15 | He had felt no pain , nor had any indication that , even though he appeared fit enough to play in the First Division , he was about to become a victim of coronary problems . |
| 16 | For comparison , of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted none had suffered from bacterial pneumonia , nor had any participant been treated for complications of his HIV infection . |
| 17 | On the other hand , Jenner introduced vaccination when he neither knew nor had any means of knowing anything about viruses . |
| 18 | I was alone in the darkness in one of those old-fashioned six seater compartments , and I neither knew nor had any means of knowing whether my family was alive or dead . |
| 19 | He was always loyal and when we had a house maid who adored Basil and had little affection for his sisters and she used to stand up for him as hardly done by , he would have none of it , to my remembered satisfaction . |
| 20 | He was meticulous in his use of words and had little patience with careless speech or syntax . |
| 21 | He did not mix with the crowd at the Rotonde and had little sympathy with the wild scenes of the moderns . |
| 22 | He stood by his convictions and had little difficulty in keeping public confidence . |
| 23 | She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN . |
| 24 | UNTIL RECENTLY , each of the great religions of the world developed independently and had little contact with one another . |
| 25 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 26 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 27 | It was property-led , market- and business-related , aimed at small firms and had little emphasis on employment . |
| 28 | The CC C P Par army was a quarter the size of the K M T and had little money and no tanks , therefore it needed mobilization of the peasants in the villages , they needed the peasants to volunteer to join the P L A and to protect their own property so they thought that this would be an incentive for them . |
| 29 | Both saw English literature as the expression of a nation , and had little truck with foreign theorising . |
| 30 | Churchill wanted action of a dramatic kind and had little use for MI6 . |