Example sentences of "[conj] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The obstacles included reduction of potential search areas as a result of house-building , roadworks and other developments ; anti-detectorist propaganda spread by professional archaeologists ; and ( most disheartening of all ) news that other detector owners had already searched these obviously attractive sites or had reached exclusive arrangements with their landowners . |
| 2 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 3 | Our intention was to ensure that genuine cases could be dealt with properly , such as those where the claimant had contributed or had produced fresh evidence that was relevant to a particular decision . |
| 4 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 5 | The control under the Act covered all users of water , apart from those taking town supplies , whether they were pumping from a river or had installed extensive catchment works at their own expense . |
| 6 | Simple laboratory tests were able to show the acutely toxic effects of large doses of organochlorines , but it took years for high concentrations to accumulate in belugas that had consumed large quantities of lightly-contaminated food . |
| 7 | It was statistical analysis of trends in admissions to and discharges from mental hospitals that had led central government to plan for the redundancy of the hospitals . |
| 8 | A preliminary investigation is shown that uses a small scale statistical analyser to process text that had caused great problems for the rule-based system . |
| 9 | The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries . |
| 10 | He always brought two , ancient black leather bags that had seen long service , into which he packed with great method all the gloves , tweezers , thermometers and rulers that long usage had shown him he needed . |
| 11 | One thing that had puzzled early observers was the litter of ani eggs strewn beneath the nest . |
| 12 | All subjects then learned to push a handle ( R1 ) in response to A and to pull it ( R2 ) in response to B. The test phase showed that stimulus C tended to evoke R2 , that is , to evoke the response acquired to the training stimulus that had received equivalent pre-training . |
| 13 | The results , summarized in Fig. 3.13 , reveal some evidence of latent inhibition in that these subjects acquired suppression less readily than control subjects that had received initial exposure to a stimulus other than the tone . |
| 14 | An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context . |
| 15 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 16 | The idea of the 1930s as an interruption in the development of latent democratic tendencies , has been the dominant one , and seen in this light , US reforms were based on the need to destroy the weeds that had stunted democratic growth , and provide liberal doses of fertilizer . |
| 17 | Donkeys saluted our passing with those howls of anguish that had made maiden ladies establish animal sanctuaries in Cairo between the wars . |
| 18 | According to one modern historian , their " systematic destruction of all that had made western Europe a going concern economically " marked the definitive break between the sub-Roman and medieval worlds . |
| 19 | The patient , domestic acts performed in this country of fogs and mists that had made English murderers the doyens of the civilized globe . |
| 20 | Mary Hammond-Heath had distinguished herself as junior to a QC in a fraud case that had made national headlines , and was inclined to regard the Bouveries ' life as an excellent test case for some of her theories . |
| 21 | Thus the structure of spoken sentences need not have derived entirely from combination of words that had replaced single gesture types . |
| 22 | This was nowhere more true than on the northern border , where the nobles who held office as Wardens of the Marches , a system that had reached full development by the end of Edward III 's reign , were in effect allowed to maintain permanent standing armies at the Exchequer 's expense . |
| 23 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |
| 24 | This countered the tendency towards antagonism between presidential advisers and departmental secretaries that had weakened other administrations , and it also reduced the chances of cabinet members ‘ going native ’ . |
| 25 | And they were reacting not only against the art of the past fifty years but also against the techniques and traditions of vision that had shaped Western painting since the scientific discoveries of the early Renaissance . |
| 26 | But I gathered that it was because of some kind of political dissent , his being a member of an unauthorized group that had held secret meetings . |
| 27 | Ironically , it was change that had driven Tubby back to active service — change in civvy street and in the set ways of the pre-war world he had been used to . |
| 28 | It soon became apparent that the discontinuation of the Scottish Graduate Enterprise programme , that had offered local workshops as well as a national training course at Stirling , had left a gap for those students with an active interest in business start-up as a career option . |
| 29 | Did my right hon. and learned Friend notice that last summer the independent report into Leeds primary schools showed clearly that the schools that had had enhanced resources and more teachers could not show a positive correlation between extra resources and higher standards and , moreover , that the report highlighted the problem of teaching methods ? |
| 30 | The new prosperity of ‘ industrious ’ Catalonia and ‘ opulent ’ Valencia threw into contrast the industrial decline that had left central Spain a backwater of artisan industry . |