Example sentences of "of [noun pl] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What concerns me is that a group of clubs had clandestine meetings . |
| 2 | His remission of debts had obvious analogies in Greek practice of the sixth and fifth centuries . |
| 3 | Ninety-two per cent of those in old people 's homes compared with 82 per cent of those in other sorts of homes had this amenity — a difference which fell short of statistical significance — but more of those in old people 's homes had a room of their own , two-thirds against half . |
| 4 | Owen believes , for example , that lepidopteran populations fluctuate so widely due to entirely natural causes that the use of pesticides had little effect on them — although it does affect ground predators . |
| 5 | The National Child Development Study , a longitudinal study of a group of children born in 1958 , showed that the children of owner-occupiers had four times the chance of being in their own owned home rather than in a local authority rented home at age 23 in 1981 , compared with those children who were in the local authority sector at age 7 ( Social Trends 15 , Table 8.11 ; see also Jones , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | This taking into municipal ownership of a variety of undertakings had various aims for those of differing political persuasions . |
| 7 | Shenfield 's survey of the Midlands ' manufacturing industry in 1954 ( Shenfield 1957 ) revealed that over three quarters of firms had flexible pension schemes , as did the analysis of the London County Council building trade ( Le Gros Clark 1954a and b ) . |
| 8 | Yet the cap on the compensatory award for unfair dismissal discussed in Chapter 17 meant that a significant number of executives had little option but to fight through the thickets of civil court procedure . |
| 9 | Over 40 per cent of patients had other problems ranging from the clinically serious ( rare ) to the medically less important ( more common ) . |
| 10 | The trial was , however , relatively small ( 59 patients ) raising the possibility of a type two error , and it is possible that fluticasone propionate was not present in sigmoid colon and rectum and this could not have a therapeutic effect ( two thirds of patients had rectosigmoid disease only ) . |
| 11 | A fair result in the end , Leeds dominated most of the second half especially after scoring the second goal — however a number of players had poor days on the whole ( Macca , Strach , White ) and some had a downright shit day — Deane and Hodge . |
| 12 | Kieman , Reid and Jones ( 1982 ) , in a survey of special schools using some form of signing , claim 34 per cent of schools responding have a PGSS programme and 33 per cent of children had some PGSS in their education . |
| 13 | You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure . |
| 14 | By the time they had reached age 36 , with their fertility almost complete , 52 per cent of the mothers in the 1946 cohort of births had two children , 16 per cent just one , and 32 per cent three or more ( Kiernan 1989c ) . |
| 15 | In the 6–7 year age group 91% of boys had retractile prepuces ( a similar figure to that of Gairdner ) , and the incidence of spontaneously retractile foreskins increased yearly until by 17 years only 1% remained non-retractile . |
| 16 | By the age of 5 years slightly more than 90% of boys had retractile foreskins . |
| 17 | By 1958 more than a quarter of consumers had electric water heating ( compared with an eighth on nationalisation ) and water heaters accounted for about a quarter of all domestic electricity sales . |
| 18 | Although the gas industry retained the larger market share for cooking overall , more than a quarter of consumers had electric cookers by 1958 and electricity for cooking continued to account for a fifth of domestic electricity sales . |