Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men and women who rated their jobs as low for control , variety and use of skills , pace , support at work , or satisfaction had higher rates of short and long spells of sickness absence compared with those who rated their jobs high for these characteristics . |
| 2 | Chemically , the antimalarial drug Atebrin or mepacrine had some resemblance to riboflavin . |
| 3 | Although many students were pushed , or encouraged , in the direction of science by schools or family , the physics students generally felt that physics had special qualities that appealed to them . |
| 4 | However , in a country where the air is as likely to be alive with mosquitoes or tsetse flies as flamingos , Mr Sandy discovered that whisky had additional uses : ‘ It appeared that consumption of one 's own product was an excellent anaesthetic for all the bugs in the tummy and I was never ill once . ’ |
| 5 | As a result of the well-publicized vagaries of the British electoral system the Conservatives did indeed have more seats than Labour ( 321 to 295 ) although Labour had more votes in the country as a whole ( 13.9 million to 13.7 million ) . |
| 6 | When we looked at the additional explanatory power brought to these models by information about the worker 's family responsibilities we found that parenthood had little effect on men 's labour force participation or pay . |
| 7 | By 1921 Lenin was arguing that bureaucratism had dual roots . |
| 8 | Already there was widespread agreement that clozapine had exceptional properties , with some spectacular remissions even in long-term patients . |
| 9 | Indeed , despite their arguments that bile had little role in the pathogenesis of oesophagitis the data of Gotley et al show that 75% of patients with gastrooesophageal reflux disease do have bile in their reflux aspirates at concentrations >30 µmol/l and that higher concentrations of bile were more common at night , at which time our gastric pH profiles show greatest alkalinity . |
| 10 | School , especially for unskilled youths , was where you learnt that society had little time for you . |
| 11 | There was no evidence that treatment had different effects on men and women . |
| 12 | and mum had two glass fulls , but she did n't drink hers so I had four glass fulls . |
| 13 | Never since the Lord 's promise to Moses to bring the Israelites to a land flowing with milk and honey had Jewish hopes been so high , Jewish dreams so wild , Jewish spirits so elated . |
| 14 | Durkheim recognized that in modern societies social solidarity was no longer based on widely shared social values and that government and law had important functions to perform in organizing the ‘ collective conscience ’ of the new order and acting as an integrative mechanism respectively . |
| 15 | The decline of British manufacturing and the problems of relatively low growth , productivity and competitiveness had concerned policy makers for decades , while the Spanish ‘ economic miracle ’ of rapid growth during the 1960s concealed major structural weaknesses of the economy . |
| 16 | The residents of St Louis and the other three major towns on the coast ( Rufisque , Goree and Dakar ) were granted full French citizenship in 1916 , and from then until independence had full voting rights in French national elections . |
| 17 | Susan turned white when she saw the bandaged hand , and Breeze had some difficulty in reassuring her . |
| 18 | Aristocratic paternalism and Die-hardism had little place in Baldwin 's Conservative party . |
| 19 | By 1984 , half the supply of spruce , pine , beech and oak had some degree of unnatural damage . |
| 20 | The centre represented by UPNI and Alliance had 10,000 votes altogether or about 16% . |
| 21 | Both idea and phrase had immediate applicability to religious and poetic symbolism . |
| 22 | Those aware of his unpopularity and unilateralism had little difficulty in comprehending the motives of his assassins . |
| 23 | You sing ‘ The Show Must Go On ’ , get your bass player PHIL KING to write a day-by-day diary of events ( abetted by your drummer CHRIS ACLAND ) and wonder , in all seriousness , if alcohol had any part to play in it all … |
| 24 | ‘ Fire ’ developed dominant colours of bright red over the lower half of his body while the upper body , dorsal and tail had rich hues of blue and green . |
| 25 | Latin and Greek had three genders ( as does modern German ) ; there are also languages with two ( such as French ) and languages which have a much larger set ( African Bantu languages , for example ) . |
| 26 | All three patients after vagotomy and pyloroplasty had negative provocation tests and average gastric sodium concentrations were above 100 mmol/l for only 16% of the study . |
| 27 | It was interesting that all three patients after vagotomy and pyloroplasty had negative provocation tests and only short periods in which DGR fluid contained high concentrations of sodium ( Table I ) compared with three out of four patients after Billroth 1 gastrectomy who had positive provocation tests and high sodium concentrations . |
| 28 | United Nations data for 1985–6 show that 68 TNCs in mining and manufacturing had annual sales in excess of ten billion dollars , while all the top 50 banks , the top 20 securities firms , and all but one of the top 30 insurance companies had net assets in excess of ten billion . |
| 29 | Whether the addition of cisplatin to 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin had any influence on the apparent beneficial effect of palliative chemotherapy in this study remains uncertain . |
| 30 | The lower rate of tissue based bone formation in these patients is also consistent with this hypothesis : if tamoxifen had antioestrogenic effects an increased rate of bone formation would be expected . |