Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 2 | Although the plaintiffs in that case had reached a compromise with the assignee and the surety , it specifically did not involve releasing the assignee from the liability to pay the arrears of rent . |
| 3 | Unnecessary jealousies had formed a chasm that nothing could bridge . |
| 4 | He arrived at a time when converging philosophical , political , scientific , and economic influences had inspired a number of English landowners to transform their estates into prosperous miniature centres for civilized living . |
| 5 | I agreed with him , even if Posh Porky had won a scholarship to some place called St Paul 's , which in any case was miles away in Hammersmith . |
| 6 | In accordance with the adopted procedure the Secretary of State consulted the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge before determining when the date of the first review should occur after each applicant had served a term of imprisonment to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 7 | ‘ We-e-e-ll — ’ The fatal pause , and my fate was sealed and British Rail had lost a customer . |
| 8 | Moderator I reported to the general assembly last year that the Board of Social Responsibility had planned a deficit on its operation of thirty eight eventide homes amounting to a little over two million pounds . |
| 9 | Maintaining that calm , uncaring façade even for just a few minutes had taken a lot out of her , and she felt the faint beginnings of a headache behind her eyes . |
| 10 | Old Jim had looked a bit got down , he thought ; I 'll cheer them up , and we 'll all have a drink . |
| 11 | Before that , however , the British High Command had made a decision of the utmost ineptitude . |
| 12 | Lynn Boyle , a social worker from area 2 , told how the Inland Revenue had scuppered a plan to get unemployed women to provide informal care in return for expenses and small payments . |
| 13 | In one instance after some teenagers had burned a milk float , it was spelled out with the additional phrase ‘ the same as was used by Mahatma Gandhi in India ’ . |
| 14 | And I believe er , at this meeting it was revealed that Scottish Homes had received a tender from the West Lothian District Council for this work over a period of ten years for a figure which comes to four hundred thousand pound which , apparently , was the cheapest tender ! |
| 15 | Er it was known by archaeologists and the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments had done a survey , but it had only done a very brief survey , and they said this is part of something left of a medieval building here . |
| 16 | It was not as if Britain was unaware of FGD — German engineers had visited a pilot scheme in Manchester in 1880.30 |
| 17 | Some earlier critics of the deprave-and-corrupt test had suggested a return to a test based on ‘ outrage ’ , with the Longford Report proposing in 1972 that an article might be deemed to be obscene ‘ if its effect , taken as a whole , is to outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large ’ . |
| 18 | According to a report by the Kyodo news service on Nov. 6 , Japanese commercial banks had provided a total of 23,500 million yen in short-term bridging loans to service the arrears . |
| 19 | Edmund Barham 's wooden acting as Carlos would have mattered less if he had been vocally more alluring and if his stilted phrasing had taken a hint from Mark Elder 's conducting . |
| 20 | Mailer 's press and public appearances over the past few years had shown a tendency , much like everyone else 's , to be a bit — well — paparazzi -orientated . |
| 21 | Presumably the regret that Flaubert was n't more involved in life is n't just a philanthropic wish for him : if only old Gustave had had a wife and kiddies , he would n't have been so glum about the whole shooting-match ? |
| 22 | This post had posed a challenge not only to the Governors but also to the two Deputy Head Teachers . |
| 23 | The trouble was that the old meeting-house had become a symbol of religious and cultural isolation . |
| 24 | But it was not until the next Sunday , October 28 , the day after another climber had taken a message to Navarradonda , that a small ground search was mounted . |
| 25 | This Gentile had professed a faith that no Jew had , believing that Jesus had the authority and power to help . |
| 26 | However , only one month earlier the High Court had reached a decision in W. H. Smith Do It All Ltd and Payless DIY Ltd v. Peterborough City Council [ 1990 ] 2 CMLR 577 , which gave exactly the opposite result . |
| 27 | In broad terms it was found that British managements had adopted a control system which relied little upon direct managerial intervention and allowed the workforce a greater say in decision-making , essentially as a recognition of the de facto power of trade unions and shopfloor organisation within the industry . |
| 28 | De Gaulle 's foreign policy had restored a level of national self-respect and consensus that had been absent since the First World War . |
| 29 | On April 10 a group of around 240 Ethiopian academics had submitted a petition to the government demanding its resignation and the creation of a " provisional caretaker government " , to be followed by multiparty elections under international supervision . |
| 30 | Beating Oldham 1–0 on 30 August had taken a bit of heat off Wilkinson , but another away defeat could well have led to calls for his resignation . |