Example sentences of "[conj] had [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is relevant to recall in this connection that Younger did envisage situations where mere observation could seriously impair privacy — where , for example , the person observed had a reasonable expectation that he would not be subject to observation , or had deliberately taken steps to prevent surveillance , but special technical devices , either optical or electronic ( bugging ) , were used to spy upon him . |
| 2 | At last , pulling herself together , she went to give Joanna and Helen a watered-down version of the scene that had just taken place — watered-down because , for some subconscious reason , she felt that Dawn 's story was not quite believable . |
| 3 | The stout , hump-backed surgeon — circumspect , but perky and confident ; Morse — looking distinctly weary , his jowls semi-shaven by an electric razor that had seemingly passed peak efficiency , and yet somehow , somewhere underneath , a man on the side of the angels . |
| 4 | Over the last year , I have had to replace my steam iron and hairdryer that had both developed faults . |
| 5 | We can witness all these in Worsley 's book in which he demonstrates that architectural draughtsmanship reached a point of perfection by 1837 , after which it degenerated into mere technical proficiency , when even bodies such as the Institute of British Architects condemned the use of colour and supplementary foreground activities that had previously made competition perspectives more attractive . |
| 6 | The emission standards were set without regard to the constraints of technological or economic feasibility that had previously influenced policy-making . |
| 7 | As Horton Davies , who has explored this subject deeply , wrote : ‘ More worshipful churches proved incentives to , if not a deeper , yet a better ordered and more dignified worship among congregations that had previously regarded worship as merely a preliminary to preaching . ’ |
| 8 | It extended society 's consideration for deprived children towards those groups that had previously excited anger rather than compassion and as such it was a progressive and humanitarian measure . |
| 9 | Poor immigrants from Ireland , Wales and adjoining parts of Lancashire and Cheshire had moved in and the old wealthy elite that had previously enjoyed Everton 's rural isolation had left for more secluded homes beyond the township bounds . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal rejected the view that had previously held sway , namely that it was possible for any employee to work both ordinarily in Great Britain and outside it . |
| 11 | Frontline bidders were Quelle and Kingfisher — which had the edge of being a domestic buyer in a market that had already seen Otto Versand of Germany buy Grattan and the French Redoute group carry off Empire Stores . |
| 12 | The sudden blindness was a result of Batten disease , a rare , inherited disorder of the nervous system that had already left Christopher with great difficulty in speaking . |
| 13 | Gorbachev , addressing the 27th CPSU Congress in 1986 , was able to welcome the improvement that had already taken place in relations with ‘ socialist China ’ . |
| 14 | After acclamations before the Lateran Palace , like those that had already taken place in front of St Peter 's , the new pope went up to the principal part of the palace , called the Leonine presbyterium , and later celebrated with a banquet . |
| 15 | Everyone was shown sequences and ‘ rushes ’ from the filming that had already taken place , but they were roughly put together and hardly impressive . |
| 16 | It also gave life back to rivers that had n't held water for many years like the River Pang on the Berkshire Downs . |
| 17 | The subjects showed latent inhibition , developing the CR ( the response of approaching the site or food delivery when the light came on ) less readily than a control group that had not received pre-exposure ( Fig. 3.1 , lower panel ) . |
| 18 | As the figure shows , the subjects came to respond only when the tone was on , but they formed the discrimination less rapidly than control subjects that had not received pre-exposure . |
| 19 | It was an aggressive type that had even reached Kingsmarkham , a type that talked pacifism and the rights of man and brotherly love without the energy or courage to do anything that might bring these desirable conditions nearer . |
| 20 | While substantial general support for the dependency approach was accumulated , most scholars now acknowledge that the dependentistas were never able to explain satisfactorily the economic growth and social and industrial development that had clearly taken place in some Third World countries . |
| 21 | Actual demographic trends also contributed to the outward movement , as the rearing of the 1960s baby boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 22 | The demographic trends outlined earlier in this chapter also played a part , as the rearing of the 1960s baby-boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction . |
| 23 | An elegant way to avoid these paradoxes that had so troubled Einstein was put forward by the American physicist Richard Feynman . |
| 24 | The idolisation of Miss Hatherby that had so annoyed Nora in the early days of the piano lessons had gone . |
| 25 | We went on to talk about the articles in Time and Tide that had so provoked Rebecca West , and Father D'Arcy observed how , in dealing with ‘ difficult ’ correspondents , it was important to strike the right note in replying . |
| 26 | But not many people this century , even during the boom of a few years ago ( when Tory ministers still bragged about the ‘ sea change ’ that had supposedly taken place in the British economy ) , have ever seriously thought of the UK as a ‘ land of opportunity ’ . |
| 27 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 28 | She closed her eyes , and leant precariously against the carved statuette that had once spouted water until Justin or one of the others had shoved something into it . |
| 29 | Rules that had once obliged Catholics to fast from midnight before receiving Communion were eased . |
| 30 | The Amsterdam , lonely these days in a small street blocked by an enormous chained steel gate that had once guarded wharves teeming with commerce , had few cars parked outside , and no BMW . |