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

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1 This had two vices ; the common law concept was vague , and it seems highly likely that the offence was sometimes used to prevent nuisances of a relatively minor kind not aimed at by Parliament .
2 This had variable effects on work patterns .
3 This had symbolic significance on the double-gated temple in the Roman Forum , which was open in times of war and closed when peace prevailed .
4 Naturally this had immediate consequences for the destitute fed by the church chest that rich believers funded .
5 I mean if this had all sort of come before left we 'd have got it through no problem
6 er , this had that night er but , one , in one bit it said he said that night they di fa found that Melissico was n't enjoyed talking to them long af till long after the stars came out .
7 Francesca 's judgement was typically over-judicial and conscientiously unemotional , but this had real force behind it .
8 Gregory knew he was writing in a rustic style , and he thought that this had certain advantages in terms of its accessibility to the intended audience .
9 But this list was denied him in other areas and he then used school lists , projecting forward for the people who had left school ; but this had many errors and losses , with people moving home .
10 There was a prison hospital with twelve beds , but this had little equipment and only basic drugs .
11 This had little chance of support from Democratic leaders , who seized the opportunity to publicize administration support for tax concessions for the rich .
12 The correction of the rates by logistic regression slightly increased the width of the confidence intervals , but this had little effect on our conclusions .
13 A small number of Palestinian workers were permitted to enter Israel from Feb. 10 , but this had little impact on the mounting economic problems in the occupied territories .
14 For this had revolutionary effects on agriculture , on food manufacture , on retailing , and on diet .
15 This had ominous implications for a party whose political strength in the 1980s had rested to a large extent on its competence in managing economic prosperity .
16 Originally this had four towers and a wooden palisade to protect the inhabitants .
17 This had small panes of glass set in a large cast-iron frame .
18 But none of this had much importance .
19 This had serious implications for Chapter III courses as the LEA was not prepared to make any substantial financial contribution in support of rural adult education activities , even though the county 's Secretary for Education , H. M. Spink , was a part-time WEA tutor .
20 This had serious implications for the ultimate fate of massive stars .
21 Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was .
22 This had some value , leading old ladies to get up and give me their seat on public transport .
23 This had some claim to be the hotbed of British fascism in the 1920s owing to the fact that Leese and a colleague had successfully stood for the local council on a British fascist policy in 1924 .
24 Again , this had some appeal both to the industrial managers of the Federation of British Industry , who had called for ‘ planning ’ at their 1960 conference as a way out of the damaging ‘ stop-go ’ cycle ( Jessop , 1980 ) , and to the party activists for whom ‘ planning ’ meant increased government control over industrial enterprises .
25 I did n't want to take the time to work this out with my tension swatch ( this had 30 stitches and 44 rows to 10 centimetres ) .
26 This had immense implications .
27 None of this had any effect on the two Williams drivers , and they made their customary start .
28 The doctor suggested that she might avoid milk , cheese and butter for a while , to see if this had any effect , and prescribed some tablets to give her extra calcium .
29 This had overt employer support ( Griffin , 1971 , p. 247 ) :
30 This had considerable impact on the Champagne trade for , at a single stroke , 10 per cent of its annual production , normally consumed in royal and aristocratic Russian circles , suddenly had no market .
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