Example sentences of "had on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining chapters in this part of the book examine the economic forces which have contributed to these trends and the impact which population change has in its turn had on the spatial organization of economic activity . |
| 2 | How much effect this had on the final outcome of the war is hard to say . |
| 3 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 4 | But it was the precipitation running off the wings through a gap in the frieze ailerons that we had on the Wapiti aircraft at that time , that had soaked me . |
| 5 | He had on the long white cloak which signified to the audience that he was wearing nothing at all . |
| 6 | She still had on the revealing silk blouse she had worn in the show , with stage jewellery sparkling at her throat and breast . |
| 7 | At the wider scale , Baker and Butlin point to two important influences which the physical environment had on the developing cultural mosaic based on farming patterns : its influence on the pace and timing of settlement and colonization , and its influence on the amount of wasteland available , which acted as a safety valve and meant that no provision for grazing need be made within the settlement itself ( 1973 , pp. 630–1 ) . |
| 8 | Veterinary historians still differ sharply about the effect his long spell in charge of the College had on the emerging profession . |
| 9 | Weber saw capitalism as characterised by an emphasis on work and activity and highlighted the effect this had on the moral as well as the economic and political development of a society . |
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| 11 | ‘ He had on the usual soft pair of boots which he always wore . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark . |
| 13 | They had on the heavy black mascara and purple lipstick of female bikers . |
| 14 | Apart from her looks , and especially those deep green eyes , she was cheerful and friendly and seemingly unaware of the effect she had on the unsophisticated young men around her . |
| 15 | Although the presentation of information on the instruments or cathode ray tubes is infinitely better than it was in those old aircraft , the basic type of ‘ director ’ information is little different from what we had on the old zero-reader . |
| 16 | On the other hand , Charles had an undeniable impact on the subsequent history of France — arguably no less of an impact than Alfred had on the subsequent history of England . |
| 17 | There is an enormous literature in Russian on the Decembrists ' Siberian exile which accurately reflects the powerful impact which these ‘ first enlighteners of the Siberian people ’ had on the scientific investigation and cultural development of the region with which so many of them came to identify themselves , and where not a few chose to remain after they were eventually amnestied by Alexander H. Just as their initial , ill-fated rebellion marked the beginning of the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary movement , so did their exile beyond the Urals open a new phase in the history of political exile in Siberia and of the on-going battle between the radical intelligentsia and the autocratic Russian state . |
| 18 | If she made no response , he might well climb over the wall all the same , as he had on the previous night ; on the other hand if she went to him and they were caught his offence would be deemed the worse , for being found on Roscarrock property was one thing , but being caught dallying with a servant girl was another . |
| 19 | The Congress had on the previous day voted ( by 1,542 to 368 , with 76 abstentions ) to waive the provision for a direct election , assessing that the " difficult " situation in the country was likely to render any delay in installing the first President a " grave political mistake " . |
| 20 | The only gleam of hope the Prime Minister could offer was that the Cabinet had on the previous day agreed to ask the Bank of England whether an increase of cuts from 56 million to 76 million , including a ten per cent cut in unemployment benefits , would be enough to ensure an American loan . |
| 21 | The February and October revolutions seem to have had the same effect on the Russian colonists as the expulsion of the British had on the American colonists in the eighteenth century — a removal of all restraint on the ambitions to despoil native lands and assets . |
| 22 | The LA had to consider any effect which the use of an operating centre had on the local environment . |
| 23 | This was very lucky and one of the two strokes of luck we had on the whole job . |