Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The race was only open to vehicles which ran on unorthodox fuels , or which had internal combustion engines modified for greater energy efficiency . |
| 2 | There is also a strong sense of' learning' , in which the student identifies with the truth claim he or she is faced with , and can offer it ( for example , back to the consultant physician ) as something with which he or she had personal experience ( having had an opportunity to examine some patients ) . |
| 3 | The subjects in one of the trials referred to were patients in whom pain control was inadequate or who had appreciable side effects , which is why the cerebrospinal fluid was accessed . |
| 4 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 5 | Blair and I also walked out to another , superb loch where we had splendid sport , Scarilode ; about two hours ' walk along a good track from Market Stance , past Rueval , where Charles Edward Stewart lay waiting for Flora Macdonald , prior to his flight from the Hebrides . |
| 6 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 7 | The other boys either had enormous appetites for books of many kinds , or they had native wit . |
| 8 | Mr Birt was headhunted as a freelance from London Weekend Television six years ago where he had similar tax arrangements with the commercial station . |
| 9 | He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately . |
| 10 | Although I had precise engineering plans I nevertheless measured and remeasured the space . |
| 11 | I did not say that I had irrefutable evidence . |
| 12 | I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so , saying that I had early afternoon lessons . |
| 13 | And it meant that I had free access to the whole of the so much so , I had a key to the bottom of entry in er access to the firm and I could get in when I liked . |
| 14 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 15 | The purpose of the visit was to have a private audience with the Pope and also to visit the departments in the Vatican that I had particular interest in . |
| 16 | I was one of the first ones to be flown out and then there was a postal hold-up so I had real trouble finding out what was going on , and also trying to organise to have him brought home . |
| 17 | If he had guessed that she had prior knowledge , he was not prepared to say so . |
| 18 | I was moved to see that she had absolute faith in my goodwill , for she took the bag without glancing at the contents . |
| 19 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 20 | He made sure that she had ample money . |
| 21 | The tests showed that she had inoperable lung cancer . |
| 22 | Shortly before he died , Mary had noticed that she had great difficulty swallowing food , had gone to her doctor and he had organized X-rays and tests at the local hospital . |
| 23 | Her mother was surprised that Sarah was not with her but Anne explained that she had important work to finish . |
| 24 | There was also the fact that she had fair hair only partly hidden under her straw boater , a most peculiar hat in these parts . |
| 25 | When Nenna told them that she had urgent business on the other side of London and that she would have to ask whether Martha and Tilda could stay the night , Rochester accepted without protest , and they went over , taking with them their nightdresses , Cliff records , the Cliff photograph and two packets of breakfast cereals , for they did not like the same kind . |
| 26 | " She counted for a great deal in the palace " in the sense that she had privileged access to Louis and thus could be a helpful patron . |
| 27 | It is better to report that you had insufficient time to collect certain data than to produce half baked results . |
| 28 | ‘ Although we had regular contact with our Field Officer , some modules had never been assessed before . |
| 29 | Although we had excellent training schemes for our general customs work at this period cutter crews did not receive any specialised instruction for crewing duties . |
| 30 | The patchwork quilt of administrative decision-making powers reinforced the idea that this was not a new system of law in the making and the formalism of normativism led to the idea that to the extent that we had administrative law , the subject consisted wholly or mainly of delegated legislation and administrative adjudication ; that is , the forms of administrative action classifiable in terms of a conception of a formal separation of powers . |