Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] had the " in BNC.

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1 3.35:TRIUMPH Hurdle hero Duke Of Monmouth had the ground against him when a well beaten third to STAUNCH FRIEND at Punchestown last backend .
2 A chicken farmer in Norfolk had the front of his house sprayed with liquid manure and a pharmaceutical laboratory was broken into in South Wales and about fifty white mice released . ’
3 Early development studies in SIXEP ( site ion exchange effluent plant ) at Sellafield showed that the sodium form of clinoptilolite had the highest preference for caesium and this has been confirmed by work at this university on both US and Indonesian natural clinoptilolites .
4 In short , as Dickson has put it , the rise of a regular security market in London had the effect of " making debts that were permanent for the state , liquid for the individual " .
5 The Lord Mayor of Belfast had the Union Jack on the City Hall lowered to half-mast .
6 To some extent perhaps they were the victims of their own official attitude to what was happening — as when the French Ambassador in London told Eden that a French civil and military resistance organization in Vietnam had the general support of the army and the civil population : whether this was the French or the Vietnamese population was apparently not specified — but in their Declaration of 24 March 1945 the Provisional French Government implied that all the peoples of Indochina were fighting for a common cause ; which was that of the entire French community .
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