Example sentences of "had [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eldest boy was endowed with the family name of John and the over-high expectations that the family had for their first sons . |
| 2 | Area 7 champions Royal Berkshire had to work had for their 3–0 victory over Riverside , Chiswick , which makes them unique in the event with maximum points from four matches . |
| 3 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 4 | It was in this community that the closest approximation to a traditional participant observation study was achieved , since the observer had for her entire life been part of the social setting which she was observing . |
| 5 | Such contact had for her possessed beauty , and he had shaken hands with her upon it ; he had not yelled at her for what she had not given . |
| 6 | Oh , you do n't know anything about the plans he had for his dear daughter , and you stand there and talk of her marrying a man from the lowest scum family in Newcastle . |
| 7 | It 's his first pencil-case , that he had for his sixth birthday . |
| 8 | Tom Russell spoke almost ferociously , and Belinda caught a glimpse , for the first time , of the love he had for his older sister , and the strong professional and personal commitment he had to this all-important pregnancy . |
| 9 | I have always asked myself how much Argan actually loved art , and how much derived instead from the respect he certainly had for his own intelligence . |
| 10 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 11 | If we now enquire into what exactly the acquisition of a fully upright posture and all its attendant psychological advantages had for our hominid ancestors I think that we are now in a position to give a fairly specific and detailed answer . |
| 12 | Later we were joined in an organising committee by a number of other people who , although acting in a personal capacity , had through their paid employment or voluntary work direct experience of the issues which were to form the core of the conference . |
| 13 | They had about them enough cameras and guide books to assure us that they were tourists , and the lady 's sunglasses could only have been , in Anna 's words , " products of the New World " . |
| 14 | Both organisations had as their chief promoter Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld , a brave and dedicated man who could take personal credit for bringing out some 250 children from Vienna and Berlin . |
| 15 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |
| 16 | The other Nobel prizes for 1991 were announced by the relevant Swedish academies between Oct. 3 and Oct. 16 : ( i ) Literature — Nadine Gordimer , the South African novelist whose " magnificent epic writing " had as its central theme the consequences of apartheid ; ( ii ) Medicine — Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann , German scientists working on the function of single ion channels in cell physiology ; ( iii ) Economics — Ronald Coase , the veteran UK-born member of the Chicago school and theorist of transaction costs and property rights , relevant to how buyers and sellers are brought together in the free market ; ( iv ) Physics — Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , the French scientist , for his work on applying the study of order and behavioural similarities in molecules to a range of complex materials ; and ( v ) Chemistry — Richard R. Ernst , the Swiss researcher , for contributions to high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy . |
| 17 | Rising oil prices , a result of the Gulf conflict , assured short-term gains in 1991 , but alarmed the government which had as its primary economic goal the increase of non-oil exports . |
| 18 | * The Polonoreste rural development and road construction project in western Amazonia which , although intended to boost economic opportunities for poorer farmers , had as its principal effect another wave of forest destruction and consequent soil erosion , as the government was unable to " keep incoming migrants from exploiting the very areas which the programme was designed to protect " . |
| 19 | The chevauchèe , then , had as its prime aim the undermining of the enemy king 's authority by challenging his military effectiveness . |
| 20 | Further afield , the Lofoten Project in Northern Norway was an innovation action research programme in seven comprehensive schools which had as its basic assumption the notion that rural communities can be strengthened by means of an educational system which reflects the local and regional situation socially , culturally and economically . |
| 21 | The Fair Employment Act 1976 had as its main feature an attempt to deal with direct religious discrimination . |
| 22 | To be introduced over a two-year period , the reform had as its main aim the reduction of income tax rates while increasing indirect taxes , and tightening rules on the taxation of capital gains without altering the overall tax burden . |
| 23 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 24 | The lesson in question had as its intended outcome a transactional dialogue in pairs . |
| 25 | It occurred to him , as indeed it had occurred many times before , that commitment to one woman had as its inevitable corollary a lack of commitment to all the others . |
| 26 | They followed a pattern which was virtually invariable , for Haussmann decided what the optimum height should be in relation to street width and perspective , a feature which was most noticeable in the avenue Napoleon III ( now avenue de l'Opéra ) , which had as its focal point Garnier 's great Opera House , the epitome of Second Empire architectural style . |
| 27 | His designs for Hagley Hall were drawn out by the architect John Sanderson , the Warwick Shire Hall was executed by the well-known mason-architects William and David Hiorne , who described themselves as its ‘ surveyors ’ as well as its ‘ builders ’ , and he had as his regular assistant a mason called William Hitchcox . |
| 28 | There have been none of the head-on clashes that occurred in 1986 , when President Mitterrand had as his prime minister the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac . |
| 29 | Like Sandrin , Pierre Cadeac was a late arrival on the scene ( 1538 ) and he was published at Lyons , a more cosmopolitan musical centre than Paris , by Jacques Moderne who had as his musical adviser the composer Francois Layolle ( c. 1475–c. 1540 ) , friend of Benvenuto Cellini and Andrea del Sarto . |
| 30 | That would seem to be the case here , where we must remember that the storyteller had as his raw material a tale about a demon far , far removed from the mainstream of Israel 's talk about her God . |