Example sentences of "had special [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was noted that to engage in such activities , people needed to feel that they had special areas of competence whether , for example , in knowing how to lift people , in tending the dying , and in knowing your way round the system . |
| 2 | First and foremost we have to consider the immediate social contexts in which the statements are made : in one case an intervention in a youth project on a council estate dominated by the particular group of boys being interviewed ; in the second case a course run for police officers who had special responsibility for training cadets in the art of ‘ good community relations ’ . |
| 3 | The story goes that trains from distant towns had special coaches attached ( or there were even dedicated special trains ) to bring those sentenced to imprisonment for serious offences to Huntsville . |
| 4 | This summer has been bad for veg , apart from the courgette , which had special treatment . |
| 5 | She set up a bedside vigil , had special drugs imported from Germany , played him his favourite music and discouraged everyone else from visiting , including his own children . |
| 6 | Then there was a little conservatory ; but those plants I was supposed to leave for Leo , because they were Dorothy 's special plants and he had special directions . |
| 7 | He had special qualities of sensitivity , patience , rationality , intelligence , and wit ; and when those qualities were completely unobservable , I became quite concerned about what was happening to him , you know , what was the meaning of his life at this point . |
| 8 | Although many students were pushed , or encouraged , in the direction of science by schools or family , the physics students generally felt that physics had special qualities that appealed to them . |
| 9 | They also had special duties to fulfil at his funeral . |
| 10 | They had special courts and some had a university or a cathedral . |
| 11 | In doing all of this , we were in good or maybe bad company depending upon how you view it , for example Halla Burton had special charges last year of a hundred and eighty seven million dollars which compared with a hundred and eighty two million dollars of special charges the previous year and Baker Hughes similarly had charges of eighty million dollars and sixty million dollars . |
| 12 | I had special permission to be in the gallery . |
| 13 | Membership of the Council was a salaried position and members would not be allowed to combine membership of the Council with any other government post , or with company directorships — unless they had special permission from the King . |
| 14 | For three years following the completion of the Wilton power station next spring the NGC had special permission to operate below the legal transmission standards until the new line was built . |
| 15 | A large part of the world had special trading and investment relations with the UK stemming mainly from the ties forged during the earlier days of the Empire . |
| 16 | In the home , the user had special pairs of earphones , mounted on what looked like a pitch Fork . |
| 17 | In addition , in February 1974 , these interlocking groups had special reasons for wanting a Conservative government returned apart from the fear of a miners ' victory leading to anarchy and national bankruptcy . |
| 18 | New scientist asked a DoT spokesman if civil servants had special exemptions from the seat belt law . |
| 19 | Scottish Office officials told the committee that the hospitals in Stornoway , Fort William , Wick and Kirkwall all had special exemptions to use pre-registration doctors with the agreement of the medical profession , but at three , their use was to end . |
| 20 | Barber Cruikshank did ; he had special seduction eyes for me . |
| 21 | Some were more active than any predecessor against some particular organism , and some had special merits in use , such as working when given by mouth , or acting for a longer period than usual . |
| 22 | Cedars , he told them , was a special school because it had special teachers with special skills and training . |
| 23 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 24 | The report rejected the idea of two distinct groups of children , the handicapped and the non-handicapped , of whom the former had special education and the latter just education . |
| 25 | The kitchen was empty because the kitchen maid had special leave of absence to attend a party given for her aunt who was making her profession in the Religious Life . |
| 26 | With the unification process underway ( it happened at midnight on 2nd October , 1990 ) , the anniversary of the European war 's end had special significance in Germany . |
| 27 | Two of these raids , however , had special significance to our story . |
| 28 | General Eva 's flag had special significance . |
| 29 | Malcolmson has shown that fairs had special significance in terms of courtship and sexual activity for the young as well as allowing participants the chance of winning status and prestige among their peers . |
| 30 | The reasoning offered by the court centred on the fact that such persons had special access to inside information which arose from communications they had received from primary insiders . |