Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 2 | Although the plaintiffs in that case had reached a compromise with the assignee and the surety , it specifically did not involve releasing the assignee from the liability to pay the arrears of rent . |
| 3 | In accordance with the adopted procedure the Secretary of State consulted the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge before determining when the date of the first review should occur after each applicant had served a term of imprisonment to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 4 | This post had posed a challenge not only to the Governors but also to the two Deputy Head Teachers . |
| 5 | But it was not until the next Sunday , October 28 , the day after another climber had taken a message to Navarradonda , that a small ground search was mounted . |
| 6 | This Gentile had professed a faith that no Jew had , believing that Jesus had the authority and power to help . |
| 7 | If it had been anyone else who had probed into her private feelings , Alice might have been angry , but this man had become a kind of father-figure to her these past years , and despite the motives Jules might attribute to him , she truly believed her employer had her well-being at heart . |
| 8 | Several teenage mothers in this book had had a home tutor and most had enjoyed it . |
| 9 | ‘ And below it another hand had scribbled a codicil : ‘ And the vagina our last ditch defence ’ ! |
| 10 | ‘ If this bank had played a role in the Hoylake/BAT battle it would have been top of the table , ’ said Philip Healey , editor of Acquisitions Monthly . |
| 11 | Although for a mile around no tree grew , some vegetation had found a root-hold in the crevices of its walls , and on the worn battlements the lightning revealed a dwarfed tree drooping like a flag under the incessant downpour . |
| 12 | Each nationality had contributed a song which we all had to learn . |
| 13 | The British in 1979 were poised between a reverence for old historic symbols which had provided order and cohesion over the centuries , and an uneasy awareness that such reverence had become a recipe for immobilism and devotion to the outdated totems of the past . |
| 14 | The fear of precisely such pressure had played a part in persuading the Government not to push ahead too fast with the construction of a war economy . |
| 15 | Hodge reported on 7 July that Rhee had issued a statement criticising the Americans for not supporting him ; this was in keeping with Rhee 's denunciation of the State Department and of an alleged plot to assassinate General Brown . |
| 16 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 17 | I half-hoped , half-dreaded the mast would go up in sparks and a bang when the Big Man pulled the lever ; that FAKINTIL had found a way to wrap half a dozen shearing charges around the legs . |
| 18 | To him the childhood wedding had been something of a charade during which each character had played a part , knowing that the coming together at the end — the whole story — was not to be taken seriously . |
| 19 | In my judgment , Parliament intended to and did provide a simple and expeditious method of dealing with a person arrested without warrant by a constable who had reasonable grounds for believing that that person had broken a condition of his bail , or was likely to break a condition of his bail , or was likely to fail to surrender to custody . |
| 20 | In my constituency , a care home owner admitted an elderly person over a weekend after that person had suffered a fall in her own home . |
| 21 | All life had become a series of promises unfulfilled . |
| 22 | In 1986 the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts appointed a commission of Serbian intellectuals to consider some of these problems , and by the autumn of that year a working group of that commission had prepared a draft ‘ Memorandum ’ which , although supposed to be confidential , was published in the Serbian press . |
| 23 | Like more orthodox Christians , the alchemists maintained that mankind had suffered a fall ; but this lapse from grace was not seen merely as a matter of original sin . |
| 24 | Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease . |
| 25 | Below , the surge was growing ever denser as if that river had met a dam ahead . |
| 26 | Mr Ashton told yesterday 's hearing that neither man had served a day of his sentence as both had been out of the jurisdiction . |
| 27 | But it may be that even where there is evidence that the patient was mentally unfit or too young , the doctor would still avoid liability , not so much on the basis of the patient 's refusal as on the proposition of Elliott that further treatment was useless , or that of Williams that life had become a burden to the patient . |
| 28 | Although most of them were being paid so little that employment had become a farce , an irrelevance . |
| 29 | Each of the hunt masters had signed their portion of the map , and each hunt had sent a brush — even those that had broken up no fox while she was in their country . |
| 30 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |