Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal author of the market reform programme , Abalkin was booed and slow hand-clapped during an impassioned speech in which he declared that the party hitherto had failed socialist ideals in every respect , and would be swept aside if it stood in the way of a market economy . |
| 2 | We had ‘ dropped the ball ’ and in doing so had lost valuable time in the search for a reliable synthetic antimalarial' . |
| 3 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 4 | ‘ He already had had similar amounts — and more , much more — and nothing had happened . ’ |
| 5 | But he still had to obtain Parliamentary authority for the purchase of the part of the site not covered by Molesworth 's Act of 1855 . |
| 6 | But his opposite number in the Labour group defended the snub , saying South Africa still had to show real signs of change before normal relations could be established . |
| 7 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |
| 8 | It will be particularly useful for early risers who once had to endure deafening music from Benidorm bars until the small hours . |
| 9 | They later had to receive medical treatment at the hospital following the assaults . |
| 10 | He inspired the Prince , worked alongside him , coached him in the ways of business , schooled him in the art of responsible land management , encouraged him to try out new ideas , and helped turn the Duchy from a non-profit making concern into one that five years later had made net profits of £1.46 million . |
| 11 | But United 's Danish international Peter Schmeichel also had to show top form in twice denying Gary Parkinson from long range . |
| 12 | The National Union of Mineworkers also had to pay heavy fines and suffer sequestration . |
| 13 | But abolitionists also had to face powerful arguments formulated by slave trading interests in terms of the national interest of the commerce by the mercantilist criteria which underpinned much existing commercial legislation . |
| 14 | Nor was it only their tenants who were resentful , but they also had to face envious glances at their lands from the laity , some of whom at any rate seem to have considered them suitable prey . |
| 15 | Whereas CD-A discs really needed little more than a physical standard , CD-ROMs also had to address logical standards , defining the format for structuring data records , volumes and files . |
| 16 | They also had to share ordinary police duties with Royal Military Police in order to give the latter civilian experience and to condition the public to being policed by them . |
| 17 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 18 | It now had to use new resources to meet new challenges . |
| 19 | One moon was the crescent that until now had claimed sole tenancy of the night . |
| 20 | The final ignominy was that it was the Environment Department not MAFF that now had to provide public justification . |
| 21 | As the number of patients who originally had had solitary stones was small , the difference does not reach statistical significance and this was also true when the analysis was based on the 26 patients who had recurrence diagnosed by oral cholecystectography or ultrasound , or both ( 14.5 ( 9.5 ) % for those who had had single stones and 46.4 ( 8.1 ) % for those with multiple stones : NS ) . |
| 22 | And it was this ability to get straight to the point and to turn conventional wisdom on its head that earned him the respect of so many staff and others with whom he regularly had to confront thorny questions of Amnesty strategy and its relations with governments . |
| 23 | He said there had been a number of occasions in the past two years where a helicopter from Prestwick had failed to reach the area due to low cloud , while Lossiemouth helicopters frequently had to make considerable detours round the east coast . |
| 24 | For many of those who did remain life was very hard ; family members frequently had to seek outside employment on a part-time or short-term basis . |
| 25 | Also like police court trials , witnesses had to pay their own expenses , even though they sometimes had to travel long distances , especially when a trial was postponed several times . |
| 26 | Of course , if all had been there the second day the justices could well , and should in my judgment , have invited them to consider the intention that they then had to substitute prohibited steps orders for the sought after care order . |
| 27 | Switzerland 's parliamentarians , who until then had favoured continuing restrictions on foreigners , hastily changed their minds . |
| 28 | [ See p. 36626 for extension of flying rights to West Berlin to French , UK and US airlines other than the three carriers which until then had held sole operating rights . ] |
| 29 | The advance was a direct snub for America , which hours earlier had criticised Serbian paramilitaries and the regime in neighbouring Serbia for the escalating conflict in Bosnia . |
| 30 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |