Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants admitted the validity of the will of 30 June 1978 but contended that the deceased had duly executed a further testamentary paper being a first codicil on 18 April 1986 and counterclaimed for the pronouncement in solemn form for the codicil . |
| 2 | But Christianity had so forgotten an earlier period when it was open to discussion and even mockery of its views that it reacted to the modern onslaught with what often amounted to fear and paranoia . |
| 3 | ( You had better find a cleverer central device for a book than my example , though . ) |
| 4 | Murray Kidd did a good job for us for three years , but he had obviously had a greater affinity for three quarter play than forwards . ’ |
| 5 | Within the Six , the strongest support came from the West German Finance Minister , Ludwig Erhard , who had long favoured a broader European grouping than that being developed by the Six . |
| 6 | The rebels had apparently dropped an earlier insistence that the UN should take over main government ministries until elections . |
| 7 | In 1936 Robert Wagner had maintained that Charlie 's pictures are always ‘ proletarian ’ but by this time the politicization of criticism had already assured a wider and more varied critical response to Chaplin . |
| 8 | But women 's right to earn as much as men on the grounds of their economic equality with the men of their community had not prompted an earlier campaign . |
| 9 | She was not frigid , but nor had she ever been a slave to purely carnal temptations ; because she had always placed a higher value on mental and emotional stimulation than on physical . |
| 10 | The government , which had reportedly paid US$120,000,000 in debt interest arrears to the two multilateral agencies in the previous six months , had still to repay a further $540,000,000 in further interest payments before it became eligible for new loans . |
| 11 | For this reason , Patterson 's data ( being chiefly polysyllables ) most probably attest to a late stage in the loss of raising before nasals , a change that had formerly affected a wider range of environments . |
| 12 | Our parliamentarians , always sensitive to votes , had probably shown a greater concern over the cider riots ! |
| 13 | But what the man did not know was that Angel One had also encompassed a darker facet in his mastery of the martial arts , namely a knowledge of ninjutsu , the deadly art of the ancient Japanese assassins from the Clan of Death — the Ninja . |
| 14 | The country had also suffered a longer and worse slump than its competitors . |
| 15 | He had also enjoyed a longer life than his father ; his younger brother Benjamin , to whom we now turn , was not to be so lucky . |
| 16 | ( Iran had dissented from the final OPEC agreement in September on grounds that it did not impose strict enough controls on output — see p. 39120 — but had also demanded a larger proportional share for itself . |
| 17 | This view of the future had now acquired a greater clarity for him . |
| 18 | In a Hellenistic town the agora had now acquired a greater importance ; large cities such as Ephesos and Pergamon possessed more than one . |
| 19 | He founded the National Iranian Resistance Movement , and had narrowly escaped an earlier assassination attempt in July 1980 [ see pp. 30631-32 ] . |
| 20 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 21 | Balls fizzed into ribs and past noses ( just ) which had earlier spent a happier morning in the sun on the beach . |
| 22 | There was an inbuilt resistance to the idea that a technical fix which had solved one pollution problem had actually created a bigger one . |
| 23 | The citizens of Kettering had never seen a better ring , In fact no better pair of 'em " Take care of " me ! " they cried . |
| 24 | Paige could only admit that she had never seen a better male specimen . |
| 25 | Oliver had never seen a dirtier or more miserable place . |
| 26 | Yet Katherine trusted her , as she had never trusted an older woman before . |