Example sentences of "[noun pl] had a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was deliberate : it implies that the subjects had a strong incentive to try to optimize , and is an attempt to overcome the ‘ flat-maximum critique ’ of Harrison ( 1989 ) . |
| 2 | Admittedly the attacking Scots had a planned assault to carry out , but in the circumstances keeping to the plan was all but impossible . |
| 3 | Teessiders had a final chance to visit the Gulf War veteran when she opened her hatches on Sunday . |
| 4 | Hyperodapedon and other rhynchosaurs had a barrel-shaped body to accommodate a large gut for the slow digestion of plant material ; they could not grind up plant food with their teeth , but may have been able to ‘ ruminate ’ , like a modern cow . |
| 5 | The Banks had a moral responsibility to retain jobs . |
| 6 | Anticipating his discussions in London later yesterday with Mrs Thatcher , the Soviet Foreign Minister said that the four Berlin powers had a continuing responsibility to preserve peace in Europe . |
| 7 | None of these early productions had a great deal to recommend them artistically , but Steen always maintained that success must be measured by public reaction alone . |
| 8 | They believed that the saints had a divine obligation to rule and to impose righteousness , even if the mass of the people showed no particular desire to live righteously . |
| 9 | The Spanish threat was by no means over and in 1590 , with Brittany occupied , the Spaniards had a good base to launch attacks on Cornwall . |
| 10 | CAT members had a brainstorming session to identify the root causes for the packages not being fully utilised . |
| 11 | For instance , management could have recognised right from the outset that the machinists had a vital role to play and not left this to be argued about in a battle with the computer staff . |
| 12 | When there were no ladders of promotion nor any annual increments in a professional salary , office-holders had a strong incentive to extend the boundaries of their posts . |
| 13 | The police had a continuous battle to keep the wall clear of anti-Communist posters and graffiti . |
| 14 | Ebenezer Howard 's concept of the social city was of course essentially regional in territorial scope , and with the founding of Welwyn Garden City in 1920 , the advocates of planned satellites had a second success to record ( Purdom , 1925 ; Macfadyen , 1933 ) . |
| 15 | L. , 1976 ) water authorities had a statutory power to make orders imposing charges on persons not connected to mains drainage was held to be ultra vires as the correct state of affairs did not exist as a precondition to the exercise of the power . |
| 16 | As the war neared its end , with the imminent prospect of a complete victory for Tito 's forces , all these groups had a common interest to escape and preferably to surrender to the non-Communist allies in Italy or Austria . |
| 17 | Two obvious , and ultimately successful , candidates were cited above ; the first being the alleged right of those elected to Parliament to be paid for their services , and the second the claim that women had a moral right to vote . |
| 18 | The diplomacy came to nothing , but the Hague Congress did much to crystallize the belief that women had a special role to play in the politics of peace . |
| 19 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |