Example sentences of "had [verb] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although innovation in particular cases had fostered very high population densities , it was the absence of population growth resulting from both the slave trade and the incidence of disease that provided little general incentive to intensify systems which were an adequate response to the difficulties of the environment . |
| 2 | In quite a different category from any of the above , this military formation was a successor to the 14 Grenadier Division der Waffen SS ( Galizien ) , which had suffered very heavy losses at Brody in July 1944 . |
| 3 | Fleischmann and Pons had done very different things . |
| 4 | Since most of the surplus food was from the lowlands with irrigation water originating in the highlands , widespread deforestation in the latter areas had had very serious effects upon the ability of South Korea to feed itself . |
| 5 | Following the fall of the Greek Empire , riding masters had used very rough methods . |
| 6 | During the admission he had shown very disturbed behaviour on the ward , attacking nurses , screaming and shouting at them , and threatening to kill them . |
| 7 | They had shown very thorough organization so far . |
| 8 | The very diversity of the Scottish experience , from the views and activities of the constitutional suffragist , Bady Frances Balfour , to the continuing connection in Glasgow between the working-class suffragettes and the Independent Labour Party ( at a time when the WSPU in England had become very middle class ) makes it particularly worth studying . |
| 9 | For a peasant farmer , the pig was a good investment , being almost totally edible after it had provided very rich fertiliser during its lifetime . |
| 10 | The silk trade itself had hit very hard times in the mid-1790s ; a contemporary ballad reflects its catastrophic decline : |
| 11 | I had to repeat very simple sentences , six , seven , eight , ten times before they could repeat it . |
| 12 | With the ANLT system these sentences had achieved very poor results whether as a result of the grammatical construction being absent from the grammar or through computational failure of the system . |
| 13 | ( However , the episode was not without profit , since the film company had paid very substantial compensation for his ‘ accident ’ . ) |