Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee . |
| 2 | Granite rocks that were almost bare in early spring had by late summer acquired a thin growth of brown diatoms ( Navicula , Fragilaria , Achnanthes , Licmophora ) and filamentous green algae ( Ulothrix , Enteromorpha , Cladophora , Monostroma ) , growing upward in a narrow band upward from mean low tide level . |
| 3 | In the second case ( Reg. v. Morris ) the defendant had in similar manner switched price labels on goods in a supermarket but was not arrested until after he had passed the check-out point and paid the lesser prices for the goods . |
| 4 | But the decision for closure had in any case already been made by the predecessor AHA . |
| 5 | Since then , AT&T has been urging the FCC not to grant BT a licence unless the gesture is reciprocated ; its British rival had until this week been taking a similar line . |
| 6 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 7 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 8 | His pleasure at the escape had for some reason given way now to even more sadness in the presence of the eagles that were still caged , as if the escape of one had intensified the sense of imprisonment of the others . |
| 9 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 10 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 11 | By the mid eighteenth century the rise of tin and copper mining had in any event produced a precarious balance between local grain supplies and a growing population . |
| 12 | Steelworkers in the public sector had for some time been in dispute with their employers , the British Steel Corporation , and had come out on strike . |
| 13 | INITIAL shock gave ground to more considered calm in the market after Mr Lamont 's forecast of a £50 billion public sector borrowing requirement had at one stage wiped 14 points off the FT-SE 100-Share Index . |
| 14 | Councillor Matheson also asked if any social workers presently in the employ of Orkney Islands Council had at any time in their careers , attended conferences , seminars or other courses organised by the Reachout Trust ? |
| 15 | The Council had by this stage resolved the issue of its degree classification , so that separate degrees with separate admission for honours and ordinary students were no longer to be offered . |
| 16 | Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall . |
| 17 | I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar . |
| 18 | Owing to the increased employment on war work , trade union membership had in any case been on the increase . |
| 19 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally . |
| 20 | Lukács ' early assault on Marxist economism , subsequently retracted under criticism from the Leninist orthodoxy of the Comintern , became particularly influential in the post-war period among Marxist intellectuals who sought to redefine a new Marxist humanism against the economism of Stalinism with which Lukács ' name had by that time itself become associated . |
| 21 | In Trinidad meanwhile , Eric Williams ' fears about the West Indies succumbing to American imperialism had to some extent been realised . |
| 22 | There were two outbuildings across the yard ; one looked like a converted barn and the other had at one time styed pigs . |
| 23 | Goebbels 's propaganda had by this time in any case lost practically all credibility . |
| 24 | The Principal had by this time become almost as fluorescent as the neon sign outside his academy , and we eyeballed one another in a spirit entirely lacking in camaraderie . |
| 25 | As it happened , my father had around this time come to the end of his distinguished service at Loughborough House with the death of his employer , Mr John Silvers , and had been at something of a loss for work and accommodation . |
| 26 | Using annual-change figures Champion ( 1983 , 1987 ) showed that the main decentralization process peaked in the early 1970s , and that by the time of the 1981 census the former pattern had to some extent reasserted itself . |
| 27 | Belief or the absence of belief that the owner had with such knowledge consented to the appropriation is relevant to the issue of dishonesty , not to the question whether or not there has been an appropriation . |
| 28 | He said , at p. 632 : ‘ Belief or the absence of belief that the owner had with such knowledge consented to the appropriation is relevant to the issue of dishonesty , not to the question whether or not there has been an appropriation . |
| 29 | Though his career had to this point suffered no check , according to Ata'i , he now fell into disfavour with the Grand Vezir Sokullu Mehmed Pasa ( Grand Vezir 972 87/1565–79 ) , who succeeded in accomplishing his removal , with a pension , in Safar 987/April 1579 . |
| 30 | This student had at one time worked in catering until her love for learning foreign languages prompted her to tackle French and Spanish as a mature student . |