Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until very recently it was conspicuous that the secretariats and standards committees were dominated by Germans who fought to have German standards , which are often the strictest in the world , adopted as definitive EC standards . |
| 2 | A 36-year-old married teacher , who admitted having unlawful sex with a 15-year-old pupil on a sailing trip , was found guilty of raping the girl after a three-day trial . |
| 3 | Harvey said ‘ Hello ’ four times , then suddenly he was talking to a bald-headed man who seemed to have four overcoats on at once . |
| 4 | This was an important mission , yet they had sent him a minor police official who seemed to have little standing or influence . |
| 5 | Something like resentment was beginning to swell in Cardiff ; a resentment that he was now doing as he was told by these newcomers — these newcomers who seemed to have more answers than he did for whatever in hell was going on here . |
| 6 | In the past it was invariably the leading Americans who seemed to have more grit or nerve when it came to the closing stretch . |
| 7 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 8 | For once , it was the losing side who seemed to have fewer reservations about the performance of the referee . |
| 9 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 10 | He moved a step nearing the smaller of the two men , who happened to have two cameras slung around his neck . |
| 11 | So it was that by the time Hugh and Twoflower entered the courtyard of the Broken Drum the leaders of a number of them were aware that someone had arrived in the city who appeared to have much treasure . |
| 12 | I think especially of our debate tonight on new clause 15 , when there was an inadequate response from the Government , who appeared to have inadequate knowledge of the points being raised . |
| 13 | Ironically , the only Hibs player who appeared to have any kind of conviction going forward was Pat McGinlay , who has taken up the attention of Celtic 's manager , Liam Brady , and will be the object of a move from that quarter when his contract expires in the summer . |
| 14 | To those who wished to have this discretion , his message was always the same : It is quite clear from several sources that general opinion among the bishops was in favour of relaxations for ‘ reasonable ’ causes , but Anselm resisted every appeal for moderation : for him no relaxation could be ‘ reasonable ’ . |
| 15 | In our study women who smoked had lower conception rates , though this did not reach significance . |
| 16 | Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well . |
| 17 | It was the first centre of its kind , and was offering treatment to women who had suffered problems with previous pregnancies — women who had had handicapped babies , for example , or stillbirths . |
| 18 | But a little later Lord Sankey , who was Lord Chancellor from 1929 to 1935 , when resignations occurred , replaced five Law Lords who had had political backgrounds by others whose reputations rested on their professionalism as lawyers . |
| 19 | Lastly , interviews were carried out with panel members , and with some of the solicitors who had had black clients , to explore their perceptions . |
| 20 | The highest mortality was among those who had had colonic disease for less than six years ( Fig 1 ) , although the CIs of the difference between survival proportions are wide . |
| 21 | Patients who had had gastrointestinal surgery , apart from uncomplicated appendicectomy , were excluded . |
| 22 | The dreams of people who had had traumatic experiences in the war , and who had developed neurotic symptoms , often contained material about the situation in which they were traumatized . |
| 23 | Patients who had had multiple stones experienced more recurrences than did those with single stones ( NS ) . |
| 24 | Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones . |
| 25 | This was a man of forty-six who had had multiple sclerosis for six years . |
| 26 | The pancreatitis patients were divided into two groups — that is , those who had one acute attack and those who had had multiple attacks . |
| 27 | In 1989 the same two patients who had had dysplastic changes in the corpus specimens three years earlier again showed slight dysplasia . |
| 28 | According to documents published in the Washington Times , one of the biggest clients of the escort agency was Craig Spence , a trade consultant who had had close links with the Reagan administration . |
| 29 | After the winners were named the pair found it hard to convince some that their glamorous subjects were not professional models but clients who had had new images created for them in Mrs Simmons 's Skinnergate studio . |
| 30 | Special thanks were due to Chris Markham who had had overall responsibility for organising the day and her band of very efficient and hard-working helpers . |