Example sentences of "[adv] had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been educated at Eton College so had an excellent command of English . |
| 2 | ‘ Folk ’ tunes , especially of Scottish origin , had long had a strong presence in the North-East regional culture ; and , as in other areas of the country , they had also been taken up by middle-class circles . |
| 3 | Despite the damage man has done to the Asian elephant , he has long had a close partnership with the great animal founded if not on love then certainly on respect . |
| 4 | A few authorities , however , have long had a formal policy of allowing parents to see their children 's school records , and individual schools have sometimes had an open files policy and reported beneficial results to the motivation of pupils and relations with parents . |
| 5 | How this system of allocation has been operated and controlled has long had a significant effect in moulding the social composition of the rural village , for it has largely influenced who lives where . |
| 6 | Porteous has long had a high reputation for stocking maps and guides in depth , and its customers , to whom it also supplies daily newspapers , include large city companies whose executives travel regularly and widely . |
| 7 | The Socialists have long had an electoral pact with the Communists ( which is still in force ) to withdraw whichever of their candidates is the least well placed in the second round . |
| 8 | Of course , the press had been the earliest communications free market , even if , in practice , most European nations have long had an additional element of political party patronage and state aid to individual titles and to the sector as a whole . |
| 9 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 10 | The Crown had long had an unquestioned right to commandeer ships from coastal towns . |
| 11 | According to Marenches , he and the Shah had long had an excellent relationship . |
| 12 | Hitherto , the coalition had only had a one-seat majority in the Parliament as a whole and was actually in a minority in the lower house . |
| 13 | The possession charge had been dropped because her daughter had only had a small amount on her . |
| 14 | She thought : Gran is n't really ill , she 's only had a bad night . |
| 15 | The introduction of ‘ Just In Time ’ management throughout RX and its supplier network has not only had a significant impact on company competitiveness but also accelerated the process of cultural change by exposing individual RX plants and workgroups to real and immediate market pressures within the company 's value chain . |
| 16 | Since labour costs account for around 60 per cent of operating costs in BR and RENFE , these pressures for financial stringency and cost cutting have naturally had a major impact on industrial relations in the two enterprises as later chapters will show . |
| 17 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 18 | They had all had a normal haemoglobin concentration . |
| 19 | He 'd obviously had a bad night had this poor bloke , you know . |
| 20 | If we then go back to er , look at the profits as a whole , there are just three items I 'd like to comment on , the corporate expenses as other income er , has obviously had a dramatic improvement . |
| 21 | Shortly after anchoring the crew came on deck to hang out bedding and clothing to dry , so they had obviously had a wet passage . |
| 22 | The recession has obviously had an adverse effect on attractions throughout the country , not least of all steam railways . |
| 23 | They have lately had a great deal of it . |
| 24 | ‘ I have not had a good day ; in fact I have not had two good days . |
| 25 | ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He has not had a good season with injury and must be a bit depressed — he wants to be playing . |
| 27 | The House has not had a good record in the past years . |
| 28 | He said last night : ‘ Until now we have not had a real marker which would tell a cancer cell from a normal cell . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The recession has not had a major impact , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 30 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |