Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] had [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 2 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 3 | The CNAA had to decide not only the merits of the particular case , but whether it would be willing and able ( under its Charter ) to validate a teachers ' certificate as well as a degree , and how it might relate to the Area Training Organizations which had some responsibility for the teaching practice component of existing courses . |
| 4 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 5 | In Jamaica , as well as tending the Governor 's household , he looked after many islanders who had great faith in him . |
| 6 | In fact their performance was slightly better than a control group of subjects who had one night 's sleep deprivation with no prior selective deprivation . |
| 7 | Some rooms were covered in snow and all the animals there had white fur . |
| 8 | Each dance followed particular rules laid down by the dancing masters , and this idea continued to prevail even after Gluck began to compose operas and ballets which had greater continuity . |
| 9 | The oil facility , set up in 1974 to assist countries which had current account difficulties because of higher oil prices , ceased to be available after 1983 . |
| 10 | Compensating financing facility Set up in 1963 , this line of credit was made available to countries which had exceptional balance of payments problems caused by special factors , such as a major crop failure , and beyond the control of a particular government . |
| 11 | And though at Arsenal the manager continued in the role of club supremo cast by Chapman , elsewhere — with few exceptions — it was still the directors who had general control . |
| 12 | He was a tall , red-haired man , according to the descriptions he had one shoulder higher than the other , but that did n't seem to prevent him being attractive to women . |
| 13 | Although the farmer expected his wife to cope , in many cases she had little preparation for the job . |
| 14 | Funny little things like the way he could find a mental case to confess to every gangland killing , and the number of prisoners who had sudden heart attacks while he was questioning them . |
| 15 | Rituals showed honour and reverence for the dead , not only the traditional laying of flowers , but the weaving into the fence of scarves and team colours which had intimate meaning for this occasion . |
| 16 | Those Sardinians who had any money at all were able to buy up land for practically nothing and get rich pasture for their sheep . |
| 17 | Over a thousand students left their dormitories and protested outside the campus administrative building by putting up posters and calling for the resignation of key officials who had little understanding or sympathy with their plight . |
| 18 | The churches themselves began reorganizing their affairs , often removing those officials who had close contact with the previous regime . |
| 19 | After two weeks they had enough evidence and they charged me . |
| 20 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 21 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 22 | The only heroes he had much time for were Bravd and the Weasel , who were out of town at the moment , and Hrun the Barbarian , who was practically an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips . |
| 23 | erm Sadly it wo n't be with the same riders we had last year , but the riders we 've brought in I 'm sure will erm , under the forty points erm give us a good team . |
| 24 | A couple of times we had big branch and stuff . |
| 25 | Woolwich challenged by judicial review the validity of the particular regulations which had this effect . |
| 26 | The existence of a fundamental ‘ life energy ’ has been postulated for thousands of years in many different civilizations , and crops up independently from sources which had little contact with each other . |
| 27 | The poor relationships between siblings was more common in families which had little organization , poor discipline , and monitoring of the children by the parents . |
| 28 | First and foremost we have to consider the immediate social contexts in which the statements are made : in one case an intervention in a youth project on a council estate dominated by the particular group of boys being interviewed ; in the second case a course run for police officers who had special responsibility for training cadets in the art of ‘ good community relations ’ . |
| 29 | In individual cases catching criminals depended on the usually less than willing readiness of the village constables to act ; since they were chosen by vote annually from middling tradesmen and farmers they had little hope of dealing with many common incidents unless the rest of the community felt sufficiently outraged to support them . |
| 30 | Thus , while the proportion of professional households who had sole use of bath increased from 92 per cent in 1962 to 96 per cent in 1977 , the corresponding proportions for the unskilled were 60 per cent and 89 per cent . |