Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [noun] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result , according to the DEA spokesman 's sworn testimony , was a classified 350-page report , reviewed and confirmed by its sister agency , the FBI , showing that Jafaar had never been used as an informant or subsource and that no DEA agent or office had ever had any contact with him . |
| 2 | Although Perot was the only candidate to leave the debates with a higher opinion poll rating than when he entered them , there was a widespread perception that Clinton had clearly outperformed Bush , appearing assured and in command of an impressive array of detailed policy information , while Bush appeared keener to deal in innuendo and generality . |
| 3 | It was the largest force that Barbarossa had ever led , and was made up of experienced warriors , loyal princes and vassals , the epitome of the feudal army under its divinely appointed emperor . |
| 4 | There will also be two novelty events , though not the Desert Orchid versus Linford Christie contest that Gillespie had briefly considered . |
| 5 | Far from moderating his condemnation of Mansell 's start-line performance in Estoril the previous week , the world champion stuck to his allegation that Mansell had deliberately tried to push him off the track . |
| 6 | The thought flitted through her mind that Araminta had already done her worst . |
| 7 | The Jew is nothing more than a popular villain ( bear in mind that Marlowe had just had a success with The Jew Of Malta ) . |
| 8 | In any case , for him 7,500,000 votes was sufficient legitimacy , and it could , after all , be assumed by those of a religious turn of mind that God had already blessed his enterprise — could he have succeeded otherwise ? |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it was necessary to raise and administer far more revenue than Muscovy had ever handled . |
| 10 | Despite this indication that Franco had not changed the political principles on which his regime had been established in 1939 , the US military establishment pressed ahead with its plans , on the one hand to secure bases in Spain and , on the other , to help Spain become militarily capable of joining NATO . |
| 11 | This meant in practice that magistrates had less say in determining what happened to children in trouble while social workers gained more say . |
| 12 | When the post-Forum talks with the dialogue partners began on July 10 , China registered a protest over the Taiwan issue , leading to a statement , issued by the Forum secretariat on July 15 , to the effect that Taiwan had not been admitted as a full dialogue partner and that any talks in which Taiwanese representatives had participated had been held at the discretion of individual Forum members . |
| 13 | Stretched out where they had fallen , the last three members of the once invincible Hellhounds killer pack stared sightlessly after their executioner — a far more efficient and dangerous killer than Nature had ever equipped them to be at the height of their savage power . |
| 14 | Nor would he go into detail about the method of murder although detectives had earlier disclosed how Walker and Collier , both HIV-positive , were killed . |
| 15 | They looked like equine stock , but they were half as big again as any horse that Rostov had ever encountered . |
| 16 | The French army , which the Duke still thought was massing south of the border , was probably the finest instrument that Napoleon had ever commanded . |
| 17 | A recent study concluded with the recognition that research had not yet identified any variant of the existing system that was consistently related to students ' educational outcomes ( Averch et al , 1972 ) . |
| 18 | The lines of division over political unity and economic integration versus association and cooperation had already been clarified and hardened in the previous debates over the future of Europe . |
| 19 | Cutting tax rates will usually reduce the deadweight tax burden but might increase revenue if taxes had initially been sufficiently high . |
| 20 | The reason why they turned to anthropology and history had more to do with their analysis of capitalism than with a concern with pre-capitalist societies for themselves . |
| 21 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
| 22 | Loneliness and fear and grief had never been like this . |
| 23 | It was — almost — Lehar 's most operatic piece and Gesner had always found he could n't fuff his way through it . |
| 24 | Parrott said : ‘ It would have been a tragedy if Jimmy had never won either the UK or world titles . ’ |
| 25 | For instance , half a dozen A's are included much later because as Miller explained varieties of Aloe and Agave had only recently flowered in the Chelsea Garden for the first time and could not have appeared before . |
| 26 | POP FREQUENTLY benefits from string sections enhancing a song , but here Balanescu has altered the very nature of Kraftwerk — injecting flesh and blood , evoking warmth , passion and feeling where only industry and technology had previously operated . |
| 27 | Collusion between industry and politics had plainly become endemic to the system so that calculations of the size of bribe , and in what percentages to which parties , were regulated by established rules and not left to the whim of individual negotiators . |
| 28 | No , he did n't believe in Creed 's innocence , not for a moment , but then innocence and guilt had never been the parameters , had they ? |
| 29 | Nenna and Martha had absolutely forbidden Tilda to go above decks . |
| 30 | Carcinomas of the oesophagus and stomach had respectively 14 and 10 times higher ratios than normal tissues but were not different from each other ( Fig 1 ) . |