Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] had the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tannery had the deserted aspect it always wore ; it took very few workers to keep it productive . |
| 2 | more in terms of our interest rate than would have been the case had the two countries remained separate ? |
| 3 | Though opinion in the South gradually softened , there can be little doubt that the obverse would have been the case had the British government not changed tack and demurred at an openly repressive strategy . |
| 4 | The contract had the basic elements of any NHS contract , plus detailed commitments for each of the two parties ( box 1 ) . |
| 5 | However the route had the unique distinction in Blackpool of operation by horse , gas and electric trams ! |
| 6 | The driver had the good manners to signal with headlights that he was clear but he stayed in the overtaking lane , letting the twin turbos build up speed . |
| 7 | Despite a somewhat smaller stand than the Association had the good fortune to occupy in previous years , Hotel olympia proved to be none the less hectic for HCIMA . |
| 8 | From that occasion Halima learnt that the fastest way to get a bucket of oats was to stand in the fence , and not even feeding excessive amounts of hay or removing the bottom two wires from the fence had the slightest effect in breaking this bad habit . |
| 9 | The car had the usual teething problems and was not the equal of either the Lotus or the Ferrari , and Jackie 's only victory of the year was at Barcelona . |
| 10 | However , the more difficult question is whether the defendant had the necessary animus possidendi . |
| 11 | The management had the financial support of the Industrial Bank of Japan , the Employers Federation ensured that Nissan 's subcontractors would receive alternative orders , and its rivals guaranteed that they would not steal its markets while the firm was out of production . |
| 12 | The ceiling had the creamy colour of a pub and everything in the place smelled ; it was always a simple matter to discover which files had passed through James 's hands , just by sniffing them . |
| 13 | The boy had the same urge to better himself . |
| 14 | The scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner , with the canvas a blend of sea , sky , fog and rain . |
| 15 | The Chancellor had the Prime Minister 's support , according to government sources , in intervening to the tune of $2bn to $3bn to shore up the pound after pressure intensified following the news two weeks ago of a £2bn current account deficit in August — the third worst on record . |
| 16 | The move had the desired effect but the Indians ' ‘ Friendship Tour ’ was also threatened yesterday by a sex scandal . |
| 17 | The Diplodocus had the longest neck of all the dinosaurs . |
| 18 | The deed of variation will have the effect as if the will of the deceased had the same terms as the deed of variation ( IHTA 1984 , s142 ) . |
| 19 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
| 20 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 21 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 22 | During the 14C , Prague was the largest city north of the Alps and the king had the sole right to the silver from the mines of Bohemia and Silesia which John of Bohemia had acquired in 1331 . |
| 23 | Herodotus says that a rich Lydian called Pythios tried to get his son exempted from the draft by entertaining the king magnificently ; but the king had the young man sliced in half and made the army march between the pieces ( Hdt. vii.27f . ) . |
| 24 | It is now clear that the King had the gravest doubts about the general suitability of his heir for the Throne , and that these doubts went far enough to turn his mind towards the desirability of getting his second son to succeed instead . |
| 25 | The secondary issue , although one of supreme importance in terms of W. 's well-being , was what treatment should be authorised , if the court had the necessary jurisdiction . |
| 26 | One team responsible for defence , the other had the hard task of storming the fort . |
| 27 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer had the tedious task of creating more money — of writing out Emorian bank notes to pay the weekly salaries . |
| 28 | Tax is deducted from all interest payments at a ‘ composite rate ’ which rate is calculated to yield that amount of tax which would have accrued to the Exchequer had the standard rate been applied only to the interest received by those liable to pay tax . |
| 29 | The court ruled , however , that the Cabinet had the ultimate power of decision under the ISA and was under no obligation to produce evidence in support of its decisions . |
| 30 | the magazine had the final say on the format of the finished pattern , so I found myself having to pass over things like ‘ Take off on a hand knitting needle ’ when I knew full well that it would be much easier to ‘ take off on waster yarn ’ . |