Example sentences of "[conj] had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A separate Harmsworth chain owned a morning and three evenings , and United Newspapers controlled or had a major interest in six . |
| 2 | Such calls are usually of an offensive sexual nature , e.g. heavy breathers and also come under point 3 , but could be offensive in other ways , e.g. telling a woman that her dead husband was having an affair , was homosexual or had a criminal record etc . |
| 3 | Business friends , golfing partners , members of your fucking club , whoever 's on the board of your companies , anyone you 've made a phone call to , or had a confidential chat with , anyone who 's asked for help , or given it . |
| 4 | ‘ Whether you 've enjoyed quick service in a restaurant or had a great hair-do , giving a cash token lets people know their talents are n't taken for granted . ’ |
| 5 | Whoever had killed Don Roberto had known him or had a first-rate introduction because there were no signs of violence other than the knife wound and Don Roberto had given his staff time off . |
| 6 | Those who had entered the country before May 15 , 1991 , were entitled to present documentation showing tthat hey either were employed or had a viable project to set up a business . |
| 7 | Very often , if they lost their income or savings , or had a bad marriage , or developed a serious organic disease , they did recover from their neuroses . |
| 8 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 9 | The corners of his mouth bit inward deeply ; it was sometimes difficult to know whether he smiled , or had a wry taste on his tongue . |
| 10 | But even if one considers those women in the modern western world who are less fortunate , they still have , for example , an entirely different legal status than had a first-century woman . |
| 11 | And then she glanced out of the main kitchen window , the one that had a partial view of the terrace ; Angelica looked as well , and saw that they had a few customers arriving and looking around uncertainly at the unstaffed deck . |
| 12 | What sent me into a fear-filled frenzy was the news — hidden somewhere between a report on the seasonal suicide rate and an article on bogus Santas — that I had bought a ride-on fire engine for my baby son that had a dangerous fault and should be returned to the manufacturers immediately . |
| 13 | Sections of metaplastic mucosa that had a homogeneous pattern ( >90% mucosal surface ) were selected . |
| 14 | Louis 's age — he was sixty in 838 — made it urgent to find a succession-settlement that had a good chance of sticking . |
| 15 | The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature . |
| 16 | She had the straight , straight hair that had a reddy tinge on it , it was really nice . |
| 17 | Er there were very very few that had a regular job , really . |
| 18 | Er and , and the people that had a regular job , now there was one next door to us . |
| 19 | ‘ It was especially bad for me because I played with a guitar that had a floating bridge , which did n't really help things . |
| 20 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 21 | It points inter alia to the ambivalence of Darren Coulbourn 's racism and the significance of the masculine cult of violence that had a strong presence in the all-boys school . |
| 22 | But for those that had a strong belief in their own capabilities and therefore proceeded , shortage of funds was no problem and they were likely to succeed . |
| 23 | The conclusion in No. 10 was , therefore , that it had become part of the Cabinet Office and was politically starved … on anything that had a political dimension , the tank found itself rather isolated . ’ |
| 24 | Its essence was the system of alternate or multiple parties whereby governments could be held responsible to different sections of the class or classes that had a political voice . |
| 25 | The delay in securing the desired promotion appears to suggest that the Marchmont interest , however influential in Berwickshire , was not particularly effective in London , and there were Scottish politicians who showed themselves better able to redeem promises that had a political importance . |
| 26 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 27 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 28 | No , I do n't think that had a great deal to do with it , erm it was question that when the town was designed the , there had n't been this sudden burst in living standards . |
| 29 | It reflects Tennyson 's own life and the tragic death of his friend Hallam , ‘ snatched away by sudden death ’ ; a death that had a deep effect on Tennyson as can be seen in this poem . |
| 30 | ‘ Scared ? ’ he asked casually on one occasion when going down a steep hill that had a sheer drop on one side . |