Example sentences of "had [pron] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pterosaurs , flying reptiles , also had their origins in the Triassic and became widespread and varied during the Jurassic and Cretaceous . |
| 2 | These perceptions were encouraged by policies which assumed that problems of urban deprivation had their origins in the characteristics of local populations and that these could be resolved simply by better co-ordination of the social services and encouragement of citizen involvement and community self-help . |
| 3 | The exhibition comprised posters tracing the development of the alkali industry and the companies Corning Glass , Courtaulds Coatings , Rohm and Haas and Sterling Winthrop , together with memorabilia from the companies , which all had their origins in the north-east . |
| 4 | Hill was the third generation of a family of prominent educationalists and social reformers , who had their origins in the radical Unitarian culture of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Birmingham . |
| 5 | The affiliated Hanbury bank in London merged in 1864 with another London bank of Quaker origins , Barnett , Hoare & Co. ; the new Barnetts , Hoares , Hanburys & Lloyd merged in turn with the main Lloyd bank of Birmingham in 1884 , bringing under one corporate roof connections that had their origins in the marriages more than a century before of the children of Sampson Lloyd II . |
| 6 | Both it and the camera , the financial department , had their origins in the " sacred Lateran palace " ( sacrum palatium Lateranense ) , the palace of a monarch . |
| 7 | Even more common was the language of religious rivalry , with the Tories being styled the High Church or episcopalian party , and the Whigs Presbyterians or fanatics — rivalries which , as protagonists on both sides were quick to point out , had their origins in the religious upheavals of the 1640s and 1650s . |
| 8 | The inspector drew attention to the absence of dayrooms for the ambulant chronic sick , who sat around and had their meals in the wards , where ‘ there were very few wooden armchairs ’ . |
| 9 | but erm they erm , they had their meals in the canteen which was one of the committee rooms adapted for that purpose and erm , I think erm , the youngs younger people used to quite enjoy it really I mean they used t ha |
| 10 | By the end of the decade more than 1,200 had their snouts in the trough . |
| 11 | Muirhead , with two former team-mates of Cannon in her side — Margaret Scott and Kimmie Brown — defeated the new champions in the league section and they too had their chances in the final . |
| 12 | The heated debates in Western Europe around the year 400 on the meaning of perfection had their roots in the uncertainty about what it meant to be a genuine Christian in a society of fashionable Christianity . |
| 13 | In the East End of London , some joined the BUF because it appeared to offer a kind of explanation for economic and social problems which had their roots in the interaction between a native working class and a stable Jewish minority . |
| 14 | The Gaullist characterizations of the US as covert imperialist and Great Britain as apologetic accomplice had their roots in the war . |
| 15 | A warrior king , he patronised Scandinavian skalds who celebrated his victories in poems which had their roots in the world of the pagan gods and heroes . |
| 16 | They had their points in the bag by half time . |
| 17 | The constituent groups of the PLO , Fatah , PFLP , DFLP and the Communist Party , all had their cadres in the territories which maintained their outward anonymity to avoid arrest . |
| 18 | Whatever nice things they said to our face , they always had their troops in the background , on our soil , waiting to beat us if we suddenly changed our minds . |
| 19 | Smith and Mills in the House had their counterparts in the Senate — leaders of the ‘ inner club ’ , such as Richard Russell of Georgia and Robert Kerr of Oklahoma . |
| 20 | The eagle still had its talons in the goat , and the goat had its horns embedded in the eagle . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that the pressure of the Christian Church , which always encouraged manumission and discouraged the slave trade , had its effects in the end . |
| 22 | Gynaecology enjoyed an intricate and fraught relationship with obstetrics , which had its origins in the 18th century . |
| 23 | the famous removals firm still in operation , which had its origins in the reign of Charles I ( 1625–49 ) when a certain Thomas Pickford owned teams of pack-horses for goods traffic . |
| 24 | The dispute had its origins in the battle of Wakefield , at which Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby and his eldest son John were killed on the Yorkist side . |
| 25 | The Community Mothers Programme was initiated by the Eastern Health Board ( EHB ) Republic of Ireland , in 1983 and had its origins in the Early Childhood Development project 1980–1983 . |
| 26 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 27 | The Act had its origins in the growing antipathy of the public to the condition of British ships and the reputation of the men who sailed them . |
| 28 | The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , then , had its origins in the law of private nuisance and has often been treated as a particular species of nuisance . |
| 29 | Extensive state-backed medical involvement in the regulation of venereal disease and female prostitution crystallized an approach which had its origins in the public health programme of thirty years before . |
| 30 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |