Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] had [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In these respects I had many discussions with Guevara , who himself disclosed his loss of marxist illusions . |
| 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 | Looting had become a serious problem and there were no food shops which had any stocks left ; most were burnt out and vandalized . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | His lips were parched and cracked and one of the miners who had some sandwiches rubbed the butter from the bread on to John 's lips to soothe them . |
| 7 | Although the farmer expected his wife to cope , in many cases she had little preparation for the job . |
| 8 | Those Sardinians who had any money at all were able to buy up land for practically nothing and get rich pasture for their sheep . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After two weeks they had enough evidence and they charged me . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Woolwich challenged by judicial review the validity of the particular regulations which had this effect . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The poor relationships between siblings was more common in families which had little organization , poor discipline , and monitoring of the children by the parents . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nearly all the participants described in these accounts were male and nearly all the studies were undertaken by male sociologists who had some difficulty communicating with young women . |
| 19 | The UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , was notified that military action had begun under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 678 of Nov. 29 , 1990 , which authorized UN member states to use " all necessary means to uphold and implement Security Council Resolution 660 [ of Aug. 2 , 1990 , demanding an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Iraqi forces which had that day invaded Kuwait ] and all subsequent relevant resolutions " . |
| 20 | Similarly , one of our members who had some experience with social services is in the process of opening a Day Care Centre for the housebound . |
| 21 | But without several key players they had little chance against winners Leicestershire . |
| 22 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
| 23 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 24 | His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible . |
| 25 | Erm on this film I saw when they was getting the fingerprints they had this sort of like little cloth in a bag and they sort of |
| 26 | One might wish to examine the effects of the father 's death during a child 's early years on the development of masculinity , and accordingly compare a group of adolescent boys who had this experience with a group who did not . |
| 27 | She was one of two Stewart monarchs who had this experience , the other being James I ( 1406–37 ) , who was an English prisoner for the first eighteen years of his reign . |
| 28 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 29 | Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal |
| 30 | This was undertaken by one of the more experienced older women who had little understanding of possible complications . |