Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | All tumours were solid or had elements of er capillary and solid tumours and , routine sections were stained with a standard aminohistochemical technique , using anti C D thirty one anti-clotting . |
| 2 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 3 | no it was really New Town school children , because there was Forbert and Barnard 's school down the Old Town and that 's where the Old Town , all the Old Town people went , children went , so really Mark Hall was just New Town children you know , and then when , when we were eleven and had to go to another school we , er there was no comprehensive school in Harlow then , er we had to get on a bus and go to Chingford that was , did n't we ? |
| 4 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 5 | On the following day , Fidelity 's directors announced that the company 's profits were lower than had earlier been predicted . |
| 6 | Long term serological surveillance studies have also found that in most patients without H pylori infection , 12 months after anti- H pylori therapy , both specific IgA and specific IgG antibody values were lower but had not yet returned to the normal range . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her parents were old and had forgotten , if ever they had known , what it was like to love someone as she loved Rob . |
| 9 | Actually , I do n't think too badly of old John as any goalkeeper that wins two league championships ca n't be all that bad ( cue people listing goalies who were crap and have won more ) . |
| 10 | The eggs were clear and had a diameter of between 0.6 and 0.9mm and mostly floated at the water surface . |
| 11 | Some large examples in important towns such as Rome , Constantinople , Milan , Trier and in the Holy Land were complex designs ( pages 94 , 96 and 173 and XVII ) which might possess more than one hall , or were multi-aisled and had several apses . |
| 12 | The sentences were lighter than had been generally expected ; the military prosecutor on July 14 had asked for life sentences rather than death sentences ( as sought in June ) . |
| 13 | In 1983–4 , 33 per cent of young workers told interviewers from the GHS that they were unemployed or had experienced unemployment during the previous twelve months . |
| 14 | The ramparts themselves were of earth , but were timber-faced and had an internal wooden framework to give additional strength . |
| 15 | Young subjects were taller and had greater fat free body weight than old subjects but the two groups did not differ in total body weight or lean body mass ( Table I ) . |
| 16 | Suggestion scheme secretary said : ‘ Suggestions are dealt with anonymously by a panel , so they were unaware that had done so well ’ . |
| 17 | We were unaware that having crossed the Webi we were now in Bale . |
| 18 | All patients were symptomatic and had proven gall stones . |
| 19 | These people , they had nothing to tell us except that we were white and had money . |
| 20 | Our children were fit and had opportunities for travel and a university education was there for those that wanted it . |
| 21 | We were lucky and had survived , unlike so many others we had known and thousands of others all over the world . |
| 22 | The mines were large and had a long life and fitted in with RTZ 's strategic objectives , he added . |
| 23 | And the plants grown in polymer were larger and had more leaves than those in control soils . |
| 24 | It may be fair enough for those people who retire at 60 or 65 , but consider those who were forced to take early retirement or who were sick and have now recovered . ’ |
| 25 | Medical personnel were unprepared and had no treatment to deal with the bleeding and consequently many people died ’ . |
| 26 | I had continued since , working for friends and neighbours who were ill or had legal problems . |
| 27 | Although some strikes went ahead , the estimated 30,000 Russian workers in 18 enterprises who stopped work on May 21 were fewer than had participated in strikes for Russian minority rights in August 1989 [ see pp. 36854-55 ] . |
| 28 | The differences between Blacks and Whites were fewer than have been found in other surveys , though Blacks ' attitudes tended to be less favourable . |
| 29 | ‘ If I were younger and had the money , I 'd go back to the Orient — to study the modern Orient , the Orient of the Isthmus of Suez . |
| 30 | But , of course , the client had only approached the lawyer because the solutions she could think of — those available in everyday discourse — were inappropriate or had been tried and had failed . |