Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] had [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goremykin , the premier had become a mere figurehead in charge of no major department , and individual ministers reverted to reporting independently and in haphazard fashion to the Tsar . |
| 2 | Yesterday Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Prince had accepted a long-standing invitation to address the annual conference of the Scottish Crofters Union which has almost 2,000 members in the Western Isles . |
| 3 | As well as having undertaken the nominated activity within 1990 and being members of the BAPC , entrants for the award had to assemble a small report giving the ‘ whys ’ and the ‘ hows ’ of their particular project . |
| 4 | In November 1558 , she was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth , who within a few months of coming to the throne had authorized a new religious settlement which once again left the country officially Protestant . |
| 5 | Yeast from the beer beer in the brewery had caused a scaly rash to grow on her forearms and across the backs of her hands . |
| 6 | A magistrate , Ian Baker , said the case had aroused a great deal of interest because of the film . |
| 7 | Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC , sitting at Southwark Crown Court , said the case had disclosed a disturbing picture of the use of ‘ a wide range of dangerous drugs ’ by customers at Darby 's parties . |
| 8 | The LTTE had launched a major assault on July 10 on the Sri Lankan government 's army base at Elephant Pass . |
| 9 | As the sun went down over the trees , everyone in the squadron had enjoyed a hard day 's military training and , after a good dinner and some well-deserved beers , they were very happy and were looking forward to the challenges of the next day . |
| 10 | The decision had seemed a natural one at the time . |
| 11 | Simon the tiler had done a good job . |
| 12 | By the time Pie had played both the children to sleep , and rose to come and join his guest at the table , the liquor had brought a pleasant buzz to Estabrook 's head . |
| 13 | The camp had acquired a new ‘ amenity ’ since Seb 's last visit : ale and spirits were being dispensed from a wooden-sided enclosed wagon by a leather-aproned vendor . |
| 14 | The hook had ripped a great tuft of flesh from his throat . |
| 15 | Even the Guardian had advocated a Conservative victory , albeit with a ‘ small majority ’ , in 1983 ( Roberts , 1989 , p. 37 ) . |
| 16 | I was therefore instructed to discontinue the action on the basis that each side paid their own costs , although the Guardian had suffered a continuous reverse in their attempts to maintain the right to press freedom and to maintain secrecy about their informant . |
| 17 | The sepoy was a large and powerful man , Fleury had been weakened by the siege ; the sepoy had led a hard life of physical combat , Fleury had led the life of a poet , cultivating his sensibilities rather than his muscles and grappling only with sonnets and suchlike … |
| 18 | The United States representative , as I recall , had a background in a state university , the Russian had run a vast collective farm and the qualifications of the French representative did not emerge during my short acquaintance with this example of Allied teamwork . |
| 19 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 20 | Safety pundits will be pleased to note that I received my just desserts that evening , on unpacking my rucksack and discovering that the action had mashed a forgotten egg sandwich into my hat . |
| 21 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 22 | He threw the hoe to the ground , hoped that at least the pig had had a good meal , and want back inside his church . |
| 23 | Archaeological discoveries in the latter half of the nineteenth-century had caused a considerable stir in Europe . |
| 24 | And they got a huge boost hours later when it was revealed that the president had made a spectacular recovery in the polls . |
| 25 | It is also a moment of generalisation for the twenty-one-year-old second mate who on this voyage from Australia , carrying grain and bent on winning the famous gain-race , had had to contend with an arrogant and hostile captain and who had cast off his boat , after a collision in the dark had given a mortal blow to the Blackgauntlet and he had waited in vain for orders . |
| 26 | The shock/horror disclosure that children were watching video nasties in vast numbers was severely criticised when it was found that the research had undergone a little trimming with a chain-saw here and there . |
| 27 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) . |
| 28 | The brilliance of the flame had collected a large crowd of urchins , dancing in the warmth ; behind them the cabmen stamped their feet and held forth their hands to the glow . |
| 29 | Then the diabetic had suffered a hypoglycaemic attack . |
| 30 | The lawyer had given a gloomy shake of his head . |