Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social groups C2DE still make up 57 per cent of the electorate ; if Labour had enjoyed the same dominance among these voters as do the Tories in social groups ABC1 , they would have swept to power with a big majority . |
| 2 | He told us that " if only the car industry had achieved the same improvements in price performance since the war as the electronics industry , a 1980 Rolls Royce would only cost 2 pence . " |
| 3 | In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee had recommended the same in its Report , Offences Against the Person , Cmnd 7844 , 1980 . |
| 5 | Six years earlier , the museum had exhibited the same seventy-five pieces , loaned by the trustee and benefactor . |
| 6 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 7 | Seeking to print the problem of a correspondent whose small son had , " taken a little girl behind the settee and pulled her knickers down " , she found her sub-editor had deleted the latter part of the quoted sentence and substituted , " taken off part of her underclothes " . |
| 8 | Hawthorn and oak had colonised the same embankment . |
| 9 | It seemed to the Court that the sentencer had used the same mitigating factors twice over ; once to reduce the starting point , and then to justify a further reduction . |
| 10 | And how would we know the colour had remained the same in the intervening years ? ) |
| 11 | Whatever the nature of their relationship , it was clear that husband and wife had shared the same flat . |
| 12 | Perhaps if the rest of the writing had had the same approach we would have a worthy materials reference book . |
| 13 | In successfully pressing for a referendum on the Common Market , he obliged Wilson to suspend the doctrine of collective Cabinet responsibility , an event without precedent since the National Government had done the same on the free-trade issue in the early thirties . |
| 14 | ‘ If the rest of the hierarchy had maintained the same level of charity and civilised control as Dr Runcie , Gareth Bennett might well be alive today . ’ |
| 15 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
| 16 | On the other hand , Sue Ramsden and Clive Snee found that most unemployed men said their health had stayed the same since losing their jobs in 1978 and roughly equivalent small proportions thinking it had got worse or better . |
| 17 | Even in its golden age as a theatre , its morning aspect had imparted the same momentary shock of disillusionment — as a tousled , unpowdered woman to her lover of the night before . |
| 18 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |
| 19 | It is not clear what view of the section the court would take in a case in which there was a clash between shareholder and employee interests , and there was evidence that the board had favoured the latter . |
| 20 | I told her that I was surprised at that because my Mum had said the same and I had n't believed her . |
| 21 | His passion for seventeenth-century literature had led the former atheist to a sudden conversion and during the war years he developed into a pillar of the Roman Catholic church . |
| 22 | ( If overall expenditure had remained the same in real terms , a fall in pupil numbers of 17% would have led to a rise in unit costs of 20% ) ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.10 ) . |
| 23 | And he was delighted to find that these forerunners of pop journalism had used the same skills as those on which he prided himself to stamp events into the nation 's consciousness . |
| 24 | However , after the couple had bought the former episcopal rectory in Greenlaw Drive , Paisley , Mr Clark , 45 , was unable to get a transfer north . |
| 25 | Even after the market had absorbed the many drawings and watercolours in the McCarty-Cooper sale ( at good prices ) , a Picasso drawing of 1904–5 from Sotheby 's Sidney E. Cohn estate ‘ Etude pour l'acteur et deux profils de Fernando ’ brought $825,000 ( £452,000 ) two and a half times estimates . |
| 26 | At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten . |
| 27 | Now , if the Liaison Office had got the same number from Maxim , then the embassy gossip vine had to be more security-minded than she believed possible for it not to come to one conclusion . |
| 28 | Her watch had stopped and she was n't sure exactly what time it was , but she was willing to bet Fen had made the most of his opportunities . |
| 29 | It seemed that Fen had made the same resolution . |
| 30 | Her own mother had done the same . |