Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [noun] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They soon talked and agreed that the shortish novel had the potential to make a good movie . |
| 2 | I only wish that the Labour party had the same openness of mind . |
| 3 | Instead democracy came to embody the more limited claim that the working class had the right to compete within the established state institutions and within the established society , with the clear expectation that they would not use the state to intervene in society to effect fundamental change . |
| 4 | However , the court decided , following the recent authority of Pappa v Rose ( 1872 ) LR 7 CP 525 , that the average adjuster had the benefit of arbitral immunity . |
| 5 | The declaration proclaimed further that the Russian people had the sole right to own , utilize and dispose of Russia 's natural wealth ; that the RSFSR had the right to form its own diplomatic links with other Soviet republics and foreign states ; and that it had the right to participate in the exercise of powers which it had voluntarily passed to the Union . |
| 6 | At the extreme , France , which since the late 1940s had been widely regarded as the leader of European integration , even denied that the supranational bodies had the right to acquire and use emergency powers . |
| 7 | It is entertaining to learn , therefore , that the original design had the eagle facing inwards , ie to the north-west ! |
| 8 | The Lockerbie air disaster is regularly discussed in the House — including Government statements , when appropriate — and I recall that the hon. Member had the Adjournment debate on this very subject just last Monday . |
| 9 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to tell the gentleman that he might well see me in future as I shall be returning to the town in which I was born . |
| 10 | The fact that the local authority had the legal right to control the premises made them occupiers to the exclusion of the previous owners of the house . |
| 11 | On the other hand , to satisfy Kohl , financial assistance to Eastern Europe was promised and it was affirmed that the German people had the right ‘ to regain its unity through free self-determination . ’ |
| 12 | The guests were given great freedom of movement , with etiquette reduced to a minimum , so that the whole affair had the air of a country house party in magnificent surroundings . |
| 13 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 14 | I can not answer for other members of the United Nations , but in our meeting last week I certainly drew attention to the necessity for ensuring that the United Nations had the right financial and material aid to complete the tasks that we have set it . |
| 15 | They needed a strengthened carriageway for their armoured personnel carriers and lighting to make sabotage difficult , not that the demoralised citizens had the nerve to inflict mass reprisals upon themselves . |
| 16 | Although the previous scale had the advantage of corresponding to actual measured accident statistics it proved relatively awkward for subjects to use and is clearly subject to what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms logarithmic response bias . |
| 17 | As Dr Digby has pointed out : " That a freeborn Englishman had the right to be relieved in his own home and should not be imprisoned in a workhouse was to be a recurrent theme in East Anglian popular protest . " |
| 18 | The idea seems to have been that this bombing would last only until the Bosnian government had the armaments it wanted to fight its own war . |
| 19 | If the conservation movement had the same kind of publicity budget , the public might be given a more balanced picture . |
| 20 | Furthermore , it seems doubtful if the pre-industrial family had the resources to serve the functions of education , medical care or support of the elderly . |
| 21 | And so , that afternoon , Mrs Medlock , Martha , and the other servants had the greatest shock of their lives . |
| 22 | King Hussein and the Prime Minister had the right to commute the death sentences . |
| 23 | There had been high spots , of course — particularly the grand couloir , with its subterranean lake and its vast stalactites overhanging the uncannily still green water — but the presence of so much technology and the chattering tourists had the effect of reducing a natural wonder to the level of a modern theme park . |
| 24 | There were no children playing , no neighbours talking , and the whole place had the deserted air of an American neighbourhood on Thanksgiving Day . |
| 25 | Of course they laugh at Beryl and her friend , they think Francis was a bit weird , and the old man had the name for being tight fisted , but there 's no stick to beat a dog with in all that . ’ |
| 26 | Fewer than eighty purveyors of museum supplies and services took booths , and for most of the time the vendors largely from Canada and the northeastern U.S. had the Hilton basement entirely to themselves . |
| 27 | But the irrepressible Saunders had the final word in the first half . |
| 28 | But the old soldier had the last laugh . |
| 29 | It was now dusk but the old librarian had the sconce torches lit and gave Corbett what he had requested , a candle and a battered copy of the ‘ Sic et Non ’ , the brilliant satire on scholastic theology by the Parisian scholar , Abelard , who had lost his family as well as his testicles for ridiculing the theologians and then compounding his sin by falling in love with a woman . |
| 30 | From 1947 to 1950 there was a contest over the rival merits of enterprise agreements against collective industrial bargaining but the Densan precedent had the support of the US occupation , the Japanese state and local employers . |