Example sentences of "had [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 2 | Whether she had or not , he felt compelled to ask her a last question , even if it did annoy or depress her . |
| 3 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 4 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 5 | Successive Secretaries of State have stated that only by the unvarying observance of this practice is it possible to ensure that in no circumstances is anything said or not said which , by comparison with what was said on a different occasion , might imply that a warrant had or had not been issued . |
| 6 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 7 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 8 | Just as before , I had spent the intervening three months ‘ supporting ’ myself and this time I was so confident I was able to march into the hospital and into the consulting room certain that whatever I had or had had I was now on top of it . |
| 9 | In other words , the Board of Trade could more or less control the Service , co-operating with other agencies when and where it thought necessary , although those LEAs which had or might have in the future statutory powers for dealing with juveniles were permitted to submit schemes for the exercise of these powers , provided they could obtain the permission of both Boards . |
| 10 | Questions were also asked about what guidelines the Social Work Department had or had not used . |
| 11 | How terrible it was that here were she and Brian , possessed of every material advantage , subconsciously blaming each other for something they either had or did not have . |
| 12 | Simon did n't care whether they had or not . |
| 13 | That is what I take to be the goal of all writing : to open up fenced-off plots , to water tracts of land that have dried out , to make accessible thoughts and feelings that readers never knew they had or thought they were not allowed to have . |
| 14 | They were interested in the way that the connections between an eye and a cortical neuron were affected by whether that eye had or had not been used , so first they measured the numbers of cells establishing these connections in normal animals . |
| 15 | Most of the workers concerned had or would have been deemed by the courts to have had contracts of employment . |
| 16 | It was just something you had or had n't done . |
| 17 | Er I had or trying to provoke us , and erm what our lads have been informed is rather than take a situation on like that , it 's better just to turn around and walk away . |
| 18 | He denied that the Soviet Union had or sought spheres of influence and implied that Zahir Shah could be brought into an Afghan coalition government . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ Ellie hedged without any clear idea whether she had or she had n't . |
| 20 | Both managers that I interviewed believed quite adamantly that leadership qualities were something somebody either had or did not have and could not be developed through training . |
| 21 | Thus , in the present study we evaluated gastric clearance of indigestible markers , orocaecal transit time , colonic transit time , and gall bladder contraction in two groups of diabetic patients who differed as to whether they had or did not have signs of autonomic neuropathy affecting the cardiovascular system . |
| 22 | I lost count of the number of corners Leeds had or the amount of times Wallace was given as much space as he wanted . |
| 23 | All of these examples concerned customers who had or were likely to use the employer 's services on more than one occasion . |
| 24 | prior to the Daily Telegraph article in January nineteen eighty eight , had or or had they been in the habit of spending large amounts of money on national publicity ? |
| 25 | When the accused entered the room , he had appreciated that something had or was taking place because the youths had been leaning over his fiancee . |
| 26 | It had been a choice between bearing what he had or running back to Aber where he was privileged and protected , and for Harry that had been no choice at all . |
| 27 | Those satsumas we had or whatever they were clementines were they were quite nice for tea all this week . |
| 28 | Then we came out by Buckingham Palace and somebody had or |
| 29 | So I do n't know who what woman he had or what . |
| 30 | Well I know the night Lindsey was smoking and she had or something but smelt the smoke on her breath and he got the belt and he gave her a belt and I lay in bed Kay and I cried |