Example sentences of "had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unlikely that many had progressive chronic renal failure , as at two year follow up only one patient had subsequently deteriorated and needed long term dialysis . |
| 2 | As this village was inaccessible , the enemy patrols were unlikely to reach it undetected , but if they did the platoon headquarters was sufficiently mobile for the captain , sergeant , and their two runners/signalmen to withdraw quickly over the hill , taking their radio with them — a different proposition to moving a 109-set , for now the guerrillas had dry battery radios ( see Appendix No. 5 ) designed by Lieutenant Barcham , a New Zealander , for use by the Independent Companies . |
| 3 | These huts had dry stone walls , perhaps three or four feet thick , with thatched heather roofs . |
| 4 | Had profitable South African firms not been constrained by sanctions and exchange controls , they would have taken the profits they made from gold , platinum and diamonds and invested them overseas . |
| 5 | The army , where profiteering and corruption was endemic , had profitable interests to protect , especially its involvement in drug trafficking . |
| 6 | Ferranti had strong warning on takeover |
| 7 | Her clashes with other European heads of state over Britain 's budgetary contribution to the Community aroused all her basic emotions : here , indeed , she had strong support in Britain itself where sympathy for the bureaucrats of Brussels , with their butter mountains and wine lakes , was distinctly muted . |
| 8 | In both the 1983 and 1987 general elections the government had strong press support , with only the erratic Maxwell-owned tabloid , the Daily Mirror , to support Labour , along with the Alliance-inclined Guardian and the Observer on Sundays . |
| 9 | The civic grandeur of Liverpool , which in the middle of the nineteenth century was ever expanding on the most monumental scale , must have influenced Mr Bushnell 's taste , for he had strong views on what he wanted . |
| 10 | To Methodists the talk of collectivism remained largely a political debate because , despite their numerous schisms , all five Methodist connexions had strong central authorities much envied by some Baptists and Congregationalists . |
| 11 | All three countries had strong farmer-cooperative institutions . |
| 12 | Their agreement was bought with concessions to certain aspects of sovereignty about which they had strong feelings . |
| 13 | Some crafts had strong traditions of literacy ; a weaver , for example , could set a book on the loom and read while working . |
| 14 | The mission style , with its cool Spanish arches , bell-towers , and church-like interior , had strong antecedents in American station architecture . |
| 15 | They had strong enclosing walls , round corner towers with firing slits from which defenders could command the outer walls . |
| 16 | It did n't matter that he was quite well built , had strong legs and could run quite fast ; he was too short and that was that . |
| 17 | She had strong hands , and the pressure she put into her grasp felt as if she was about to throw him over her shoulder or come out with some menacingly appropriate comment . |
| 18 | Hohenstaufen castles had strong , cylindrical keeps , as at Muenzenberg in Hessen . |
| 19 | The band had strong ideas about production . |
| 20 | He had strong wrists and a charming smile . |
| 21 | It suggested that all countries had strong mutual interests in providing growing markets for each others ' products , in security of supplies and in a more stable monetary system . |
| 22 | The unusually benevolent Mr Smith had strong words to say about them : |
| 23 | He had strong opinions . |
| 24 | The Reaganites had strong idealogical objections to the convention , regarding the convention as a dangerous precedent for other international resources , and as a step towards bureaucratisation and away from free enterprise . |
| 25 | First , he had strong support from the local community , who in the course of their campaign to re-open the school had contacted their MP and the Secretary of State . |
| 26 | It is clear that the middle kingdom had strategic importance for a king who wished to preserve German unity ; that the Saxon kings had strong practical grounds for wishing to be kings of Lombardy and to hold suzerainty over the kingdom of Burgundy . |
| 27 | Another group , ‘ Gentling Brünnhildes ’ , aggressive , masculine women , had strong competitive feelings towards men , but at another level desperately wanted to be overpowered and mastered by Brünnhilde , it will be remembered , was eventually mastered by Siegfried . |
| 28 | He despised homosexuals , and although there were plenty of other sexually depraved aristocrats around at the time , he was unfortunate enough to have married into a family ( the Montreuils ) who had strong court connections , and it was they who made sure that he was jailed , partly to get him off their backs ( so to Speak ) and partly as an example to others . |
| 29 | The Press Liaison Officer took a heavy file from a shelf and almost dropped it into her hands ; but she had strong wrists and managed a gracious smile of acceptance and thanks . |
| 30 | When Wordsworth arrived at St John 's College , with which his school had strong connections , he found that he was already in advance of his fellow-students in the basic requirements for the first year 's work . |