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

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1 ‘ He was set upon by a police officer who simply wanted to speak to him but had no right in law and the appellant had the right to resist him , ’ said Mr Macdonald .
2 Johnson flits over it all in a sentence , and in his letters to Mrs Thrale he came forth only a little more , alluding only to the success of the visit , and to the debate as to whether the savage or the shopkeeper had the best life .
3 When whales were still plentiful , the king and the clergy had the right to what was , very literally , their cut ; in the case of the canons of Bayonne , to the for some reason much prized tongue .
4 The Star Chamber and the Council had the power to administer the oath and to punish recusants ; and literally to press confessions out of those under interrogation .
5 The Star Chamber and the Council had the power to administer the oath and to punish recusants ; and literally to press confessions out of those under interrogation .
6 The court quashed the conviction finding that only the Minister or the Committee had the power to issue such orders under the statute .
7 Although Philip was excommunicated all followed his invitation and the assembly had the semblance of an imperial diet .
8 It was true that both the house and the grounds had the curious quality of seeming larger than they were .
9 It was in the nation 's interest to have a better-educated populace and the WEA had the tradition and the expertise to achieve this , if an expansion of its work could be financed and more full-time staff appointed ; in particular , it had a major contribution to make to trade union education .
10 This arrangement depended upon the Goldsmiths ' willingness to undertake the task but the executors had the power , if the Company declined , to assign the property elsewhere .
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