Example sentences of "they had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roman catholic hierarchy declared that they had no opposition to this particular change , but one wonders how the vote would have gone if they had . |
| 2 | The gentle mists draped over their moment of failure , when impetus ran down , as though they had no goal ahead of them . |
| 3 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 4 | They had no sensitivity , no conscience . |
| 5 | If there is doubt about the cause of death — if , for example , the death was sudden and the doctor had not seen the person within fourteen days of death , or if they had no general practitioner , the coroner must be informed , and will decide whether it is necessary to hold a post mortem . |
| 6 | The Canto as a whole , whatever its incidental obscurities , is plainly concerned with the phenomenon of ‘ the living dead ’ , focussed in part , as Ronald Bush has invaluably pointed out , on the old men , Clemenceau , Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson , legislating at Versailles for a future they had no part in . |
| 7 | People embraced and wept , promising to stay in touch , only to realise in some cases that they had no addresses to exchange . |
| 8 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |
| 9 | Last night , speaking in Brighton , Jack Adams , a national officer of the transport workers ' union , said directors had warned that , although they had no plans to shut Dagenham , employees themselves could close it if their work record did not improve . |
| 10 | Management in the ambulance dispute told Acas , the conciliation service , that they had no intention of acceding to union demands . |
| 11 | They had no children . |
| 12 | They had no boots on . |
| 13 | From the way they were digging it was obvious that they had no idea what it was all about . |
| 14 | Obviously they had no idea what lay ahead after they had crossed the bridges and got close to the enemy positions . |
| 15 | But intellectually they had no weight . |
| 16 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 17 | They had no idea , as yet , that the coming of modern translations , and the making of English into an international language , would destroy the commonness of a single text of the Bible which was the property of the simple as of the sophisticated . |
| 18 | They had no idea They were on a totally different wavelength from us . |
| 19 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 20 | They were so enthusiastic in the demonstration of the primacy of communal property and equality that they had no difficulty in taking in from Morgan much baggage which seems pretty unrelated to their previous concern ; for example , such ideas as matriliny or the significance of kinship terminology . |
| 21 | Army ambulances were put on standby although government sources last night admitted they had no idea who would drive them . |
| 22 | Mr Nigel Rudd , chairman of Williams , said the company had received categorical assurances from the Barclay brothers that they had no intention of making an offer . |
| 23 | Appealing for calm in Lebanon , the State Department spokesmen said that they had no indication who was responsible . |
| 24 | Inside , the crews expressed their willingness to answer emergency calls and , despite being suspended , said they had no intention of going home . |
| 25 | He regretted the Opposition had not agreed a bipartisan policy and it had to be asked why they had no similar feelings about the forced repatriation of people from Hong Kong to China ‘ which goes on on every bitas big a scale as anything we are contemplating now ’ . |
| 26 | Mr Fowler said there was no reason why businesses and jobs should be put at risk by workers called upon to strike when they had no dispute with their employer . |
| 27 | ‘ They had no plans to marry , then ? ’ |
| 28 | For years its shops have been empty and dark ( they had no bulbs ) . |
| 29 | Maybe the agency would write back telling her they had no one foul enough on their books . |
| 30 | But the men gave way , because they had no choice , and the next minute the car had bounced out on to the road , turning left , away from the village and up towards the dale head . |