Example sentences of "had [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But within a fortnight the Indian Round Table Conference had opened in London , and the second fissiparous issue had filled any gap left by the temporary subsidence of the first . |
| 2 | Only a third of LEAs had arranged any training for social services departments about the purpose and procedures of the 1981 Act , and only a few more ( 38 per cent ) had arranged training for health authorities . |
| 3 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 4 | Up until then most of John 's friends and colleagues had heard any news in rather a fragmented way at parties or in the pub , which was frustrating for them . |
| 5 | The preliminary problem was that neither William I nor William Rufus had recognized any pope since the death of Gregory VII in 1085 , and it was still doubtful whether England would follow Germany in recognizing Clement III , or France in recognizing Urban II . |
| 6 | What he was also wondering was whether Harriet had received any letters of the kind received by Tom Fearon and if so , whether she had kept them ? |
| 7 | Harris asked the Ambassador whether he had received any letters from Amnesty members concerning Guatemalan street children ( who are routinely rounded up and beaten by that country 's security forces ) . |
| 8 | He refused to say whether his company had received any payment so far , claiming that to do so would be breach of confidence with regard to OEM suppliers . |
| 9 | Kate Kennett saw the problem when she was first invited to the school before the scheme had received any finance : |
| 10 | Had she been making a genuine decision to refuse the treatment , it would be necessary in a case such as this to find out if the patient had received any advice as to the consequences of a refusal to accept treatment . |
| 11 | Jones subsequently denied , however , that he had given any pledge of support to Braithwaite . |
| 12 | In an address to the Pakistani National Assembly and Senate in December 1985 President Zia formally denied that his country had given any bases to the United States . |
| 13 | Other minor points which may be helpful would include : The position of the gear lever after an accident ; what the speedometer registers if damaged in an accident ; the position of other instruments , such as obligatory light switches or windscreen wiper switches ; whether the driver had consumed any alcohol prior to the offence ( provided the prejudicial value does not outweigh the evidential value of such evidence ) and the mechanical condition of the vehicle . |
| 14 | Finally we asked respondents whether they individually , their department , or their school had undertaken any self-evaluation exercise not based on the LEA scheme , and whether their school had a staff-appraisal scheme . |
| 15 | Finally we asked teachers if their school or department had undertaken any kind of SSE exercise without using the Solihull booklet . |
| 16 | But in truth the field was disappointing : only one runner ( At Talaq ) had won a Group One event and only four of the others had won any Pattern race . |
| 17 | On the following day , however , both Soviet and Japanese diplomatic sources denied that the discussions had included any degree of Soviet acceptance of Japan 's claim on the territory . |
| 18 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
| 19 | The riot had started from nothing ; nobody had expected any trouble . |
| 20 | Amiss had to restrain his impatience , knowing as he did that a distinguishing feature of Blenkinsop was that he had enjoyed any wine , as long as there was enough of it . |
| 21 | The police had dropped any action , following their March 1967 raid , by June . |
| 22 | They left the coast after they had harvested any catch-crops and grazed the stubble , to arrive in the south for the date harvest , feeding their animals on fodder-dates and forage crops until it was time to return north . |
| 23 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 24 | As in the 1977 NOP survey , our 1979 survey showed that very few people buying on credit had considered any type of credit other than the one they had actually used . |
| 25 | The proportion who had considered any type of credit other than the one they used was only 6 per cent of this sample . |
| 26 | In his Harvard thesis of 1916 T. S. Eliot had claimed any knowledge of reality to be little more than a perilous mental construct : ‘ we are forced to admit that the construction is not always completely successful , ’ being ‘ always about to fall apart . ’ |
| 27 | In the absence of clear evidence of this nature , the court is likely to infer that the squatter neither had had nor had claimed any intention of asserting a right to the possession of the land … |
| 28 | Although desperately tired both had pushed any thoughts of sleep from their minds , though after checking in at the hotel , the Vendome … chosen for its proximity to the station … , they had each taken a long , refreshing shower before meeting up again for a late breakfast in the dining room . |
| 29 | In October 1991 the Senate foreign relations committee had narrowly voted to approve a congressional inquiry into the issue , but a Republican filibuster had prevented any funding of the investigation . |
| 30 | Algerian official sources denied that he had met any opposition groups . |