Example sentences of "had in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 2 | And in 1982 Gemayel still saw it as he had in the late 1930s , as a movement of renewal that prepared Lebanon 's young Christians for independence and civic responsibility . |
| 3 | I now turn to the professional encounters I had in the late 1970s and early 1980s with two senior but very different public figures , Lord Mountbatten and Harold Macmillan ( later Earl of Stockton ) . |
| 4 | In a kindly voice ( for which , later , he felt like smacking her ) , she said , ‘ I think you are mixing me up with the child our mother had in the late 1930s . ’ |
| 5 | to distrain by their lands and chattels all those who shared in that liberty , and have lands within the bounds of the disafforested districts , to contribute towards the payment of the 200 marks to the King , in proportion to the lands they had in the said district , and the advantage they gained from the disafforestment . |
| 6 | Certainly of of the size of of the desn deafness claims that we had in the nineteen eighties and will continue to have for the rest of this er of this century . |
| 7 | In 1963 , many producers were having as much difficulty securing screenings for their films as their predecessors had in the early 1920s . |
| 8 | ‘ We would not , I believe , if we had had that situation , have had the strength to deal with the Falklands , with Iraq and with the economic difficulties that we had in the early 1980s , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Uncle used to do a bit because he liked fiddling with machines , and the one we had in the early days was borrowed and not really suitable . |
| 10 | That 's a great philosophy and fortunately we 've got the luxury of having a little more time now than we had in the early days . |
| 11 | The illusion that I had and perhaps many others had in the early seventies was that somehow we could reach a blissful state where all tensions and anxieties would not be there and we would be sexually , as well as emotionally , free . |
| 12 | What had in the early 1830s been , in Robert Owen 's perception , an instrument of revolution , for the reconstitution of society as an industrial democracy , had now become an expression of Victorian values . |
| 13 | I think the association had in the early a very close working relationship with Radio Brighton and we certainly keep contact with Radio Medway , Radio Brighton and all the other television and radio companies which are active within the region . |
| 14 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 15 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 16 | The landslide he had in the electoral college last November obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote . |
| 17 | Instead , he promoted a ‘ Disraelian sense of the obligation of local businessmen to exercise leadership in the big cities as their predecessors had in the Victorian heyday ’ ( Parkinson and Duffy , 1984 , p. 81 ) . |
| 18 | The overall picture , with session 1991–2 yet to be completed , is very encouraging for SCOTVEC , because it indicates that the faith we had in the new system 's advantages was well-founded . |
| 19 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 20 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 21 | Fear of losing what we never had in the first place . |
| 22 | ‘ If we had stuck away some of the chances we had in the first half then we 'd have won it . ’ |
| 23 | The queen 's eldest son by her first husband , Thomas Grey , had in the first reign married the king 's niece Anne Holland , the daughter and heiress of Henry Holland duke of Exeter by Edward 's sister Anne . |
| 24 | The demands of Cold War politics prompted Aragon to go one step further and fabricate a fictional representation of Nizan 's treachery which had in the first instance itself been fabricated from Nizan " sown fictional productions . |
| 25 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 26 | Certainly a much better picture than the one we had in the first half of the year . |
| 27 | The queen 's eldest son by her first husband , Thomas Grey , had in the first reign married the king 's niece Anne Holland , the daughter and heiress of Henry Holland duke of Exeter by Edward 's sister Anne . |
| 28 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 29 | But its opposition also had a base in the property-owning , rural peasantry , and middle-classes , who had in the nineteenth century paid a heavy price for their liberation from oppression and whose status became rooted in their property , land , and livestock . |
| 30 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |