Example sentences of "[that] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple laboratory tests were able to show the acutely toxic effects of large doses of organochlorines , but it took years for high concentrations to accumulate in belugas that had consumed large quantities of lightly-contaminated food . |
| 2 | ‘ You remember you asked me to see if I could find out who it was that had sent that news item about Leila in to Al-Liwa . ’ |
| 3 | Everything changed in the late summer of 1958 when I went to " the convent " , Elmwood , my senior secondary school , and began to lose sight of all these children , now separated by age or by the hurdle of the " qualie " that had kept some back and relegated them to the junior secondary where school ended at fifteen , divided girls from boys and clever from less clever . |
| 4 | It was statistical analysis of trends in admissions to and discharges from mental hospitals that had led central government to plan for the redundancy of the hospitals . |
| 5 | A preliminary investigation is shown that uses a small scale statistical analyser to process text that had caused great problems for the rule-based system . |
| 6 | The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries . |
| 7 | Was she implying to herself that she did n't want anything to spoil the new friendly relationship that had arisen that evening ? |
| 8 | In the taxi that had waited all evening in the piazza for them , the Captain glanced sideways at the point of glowing ash and said politely , ‘ I hope I did n't take you away from something more important this evening . ’ |
| 9 | It struck a devastating blow at the presidency as an institution and gave powerful new impetus to the collapse of trust in government that had begun some years previously . |
| 10 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 11 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 12 | It seems that on reflection it was n't so much what Theo had said but how he had said it that had generated such despair and fury in him . |
| 13 | There can be little doubt that it was the professionalism of Karajan 's music-making — revered by fellow musicians — allied to a range of truly outstanding performances spread across a vast repertoire that had generated this success . |
| 14 | And also , as he watched the boxer on the television , Boy began to think that there are two kinds of sex : the kind of sex where you say do this , do that , or you manoeuvre yourself into position for a particular kind of pleasure ; and then there is the other kind of sex , where you want not someone else 's body that had done those things the night before or the afternoon before . |
| 15 | Within the shortest space of time , they were walking into the lounge of an hotel that had seen better days but was still surprisingly well patronised ; by a variety of habitués , mostly male , and all , whether uniformed or civilian , contriving to give the place an air of distinction . |
| 16 | Like so much of metropolitan Europe , it was an area that had seen better days . |
| 17 | A moment later the door creaked open and he appeared , or a fair facsimile , a very old man with grey hair down to his shoulders , a black dresscoat of velvet that had seen better days , a pair of very baggy corduroy trousers beneath of the type worn by peasants on the farm . |
| 18 | The lodge was an old farmhouse that had seen better days . |
| 19 | Luiza and Freddi were there , Luiza muffled up in a huge and unflattering beaver lamb coat that had seen better days . |
| 20 | He always brought two , ancient black leather bags that had seen long service , into which he packed with great method all the gloves , tweezers , thermometers and rulers that long usage had shown him he needed . |
| 21 | East Smithfield , Nightingale Lane , Burr Street , St Catherine 's Way ; like London 's wall they hemmed in the huge dock area that had seen 11,000 people moved from the crowded houses and thieve 's kitchens , and vast amounts of earth shifted to create new hills and rises in Chelsea and Pimlico . |
| 22 | One thing that had puzzled early observers was the litter of ani eggs strewn beneath the nest . |
| 23 | To examine this thesis , the crypt cell production rate ( CCPR ) was measured in eight groups of rats ( n=187 ) that had received 1,2 dimethylhydrazine , 70% small bowel resection , supplemental dietary calcium , or a combination of these . |
| 24 | All subjects then learned to push a handle ( R1 ) in response to A and to pull it ( R2 ) in response to B. The test phase showed that stimulus C tended to evoke R2 , that is , to evoke the response acquired to the training stimulus that had received equivalent pre-training . |
| 25 | All subjects then received A-shock pairings followed by a test session assessing the generalization of conditioned suppression to both B and C. Suppression on this test was not profound but , as Fig 5.7 shows , each group showed more suppression to the stimulus that had received stage-one training equivalent to that given for A. |
| 26 | The results , summarized in Fig. 3.13 , reveal some evidence of latent inhibition in that these subjects acquired suppression less readily than control subjects that had received initial exposure to a stimulus other than the tone . |
| 27 | An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context . |
| 28 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 29 | The idea of the 1930s as an interruption in the development of latent democratic tendencies , has been the dominant one , and seen in this light , US reforms were based on the need to destroy the weeds that had stunted democratic growth , and provide liberal doses of fertilizer . |
| 30 | But from the 1870s , following what was seen as a decline in standards in the 1850s and 1860s , a new confidence in the moralistic ethic can be detected , as if the hesitations that had governed earlier attempts were cast off . |