Example sentences of "[art] [noun] had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tent had a damp patch where it sagged between the poles |
| 2 | The base had a long history as home to the packers , as well as medical and catering units . |
| 3 | The serpent had a good drink |
| 4 | No doubt the Alderney and the Guernsey had a shared ancestry : both islands were colonised by Normandy monks in the eleventh century . |
| 5 | With the single exception of the Polish Gymnazium in Kulm , the Germans had a total monopoly on higher education . |
| 6 | The category had a profound influence on antiracist activists and intellectuals of British Afro-Caribbean , African and Asian descent , and it can still serve as a powerful descriptive and political signifier . |
| 7 | The crossing had a vital role to play in the economic regeneration of the region , it argued in a statement , and controversy over the Oxleas link should not delay construction of the bridge itself . |
| 8 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 9 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 10 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 11 | The cyclist had a big leather bag strapped on the bicycle frame and they kept the set in there . |
| 12 | The croupier had a high-pitched voice , insistent . |
| 13 | In 1907 , however , the Bondholders had a great deal more at risk than in the 1960 's and the 2:1 arrangement gave them some protection and rights over their own investments and the Club 's destiny . |
| 14 | Whatever stage of development any of the peoples of Siberia had reached , the occupation of their land by the Russians had a profound effect , either setting off entirely new social developments or accelerating trends which were already present . |
| 15 | In the end , I 'd say , ‘ Yes , you are but I love you anyway , ' ’ In truth the experience had a dreadful effect on her marriage and on her relationship with her brothers and sisters , who fell out with her . |
| 16 | Certainly , there were times when the mistress had a strange faraway look in her eye , a look that belied her busy nature and preoccupation with the children she adored : a haunted lonely look . |
| 17 | The kitchen had a noble view |
| 18 | Clearly the case was not a straightforward one ; the judgement had a slim majority of five votes to four . |
| 19 | The division had a successful year with good growth and increased profits in both the servicing and manufacture of fire protection and safety products . |
| 20 | The division had a good year in 1992 , with results coming close to budget . |
| 21 | The wave had a great deal of undertow . |
| 22 | Before conversion , the building had a simple plan with a nave and aisles of six bays terminated by a shallow semi-octagonal apse at the east end . |
| 23 | I find then this ‘ universal solidarity of sisterhood ’ — as though women across the ages had a like situation — to be far-fetched . |
| 24 | The story had a flattering reception . |
| 25 | Then the story had a happy ending . |
| 26 | And yesterday the story had a happy ending when the man who bought the ring returned it with a mumbled apology . |
| 27 | Thankfully , the story had a happy ending . |
| 28 | Thankfully , the story had a happy ending . |
| 29 | If there was a sphere in which the authorities had a certain justification for retreating from the policy of reform ( and in which they could have afforded to act without alienating a numerically significant part of the population ) , it was that of higher education . |
| 30 | There were men half-hidden by piled-up mountains of coloured balloons at some of the street corners , a relic , Ward said , of the magnificent feathered headdresses of the Aztecs , and with the stillness of evening the dust haze had gone , so that the huge square of the Zócalo had a brooding sense of peace , the cathedral 's twin towers still touched with the sunset 's warmth and the great mass of it dominating the presidential palace . |