Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [noun] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Anglo-Saxon cathedral burned down in 1067 , and the Norman Archbishop Lanfranc had the current cathedral built on almost exactly the same site . |
| 2 | A further difference between the army and the police was that the professional officer corps had the task of leading the revolution . |
| 3 | On the one hand , the Daily Mirror story had the important ingredient of television stars and the alleged exploitation of children in their front-page exclusive story , headlined Stars in Child Porn Probe , while on the other hand , more routinely , there are the very brief items in the local newspapers where the local police use the newspaper like a bulletin board to warn the local neighbourhood about a local nuisance who insists upon exposing himself . |
| 4 | Italy campaign was winding down ; the Bulgarians were seeking peace by the late summer ; a peasant revolt in Hungary caused the Austrian-Hungary Monarchy to waiver and the full deployment of the fresh U.S.A. troops had the effect of causing the Germans to realise that they could not win the war . |
| 5 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 6 | Cariscot , in which the Canadian company Scothalls had the majority shareholding , was alleged to have imported cotton for resale as genuine West Indian Sea Island Cotton . |
| 7 | The National Consumer Council had the impression that consumers wanting to borrow money felt agencies automatically regarded them as ‘ guilty ’ and that they had to prove their innocence . |
| 8 | As the presenter of Channel 4 's first youth programme Whatever You Want , the stocky Llanelli-born Allen had the ideal vehicle for his anarchic polemics , the best thing about a scrappy programme that featured The Undertones one moment and an abortion debate the next , planting the seeds for The Tube , Network 7 and their many-headed progeny . |
| 9 | I hoped the baby would bring out all the good things Alan had the potential to be . |
| 10 | I said that the payroll levy that the Labour party would introduce would have the effect of being a tax on jobs , in precisely the way that the selective employment tax had the effect of being directly a tax on jobs . |
| 11 | THE SUCCESSFUL UUUC MPS HAD THE NUMBERS TO HAVE ENABLED HIM TO REMAIN IN OFFICE , BUT WERE BOUND BY AN ELECTION PLEDGE NOT TO SUPPORT HIM . |
| 12 | In contrast the American inter-service Harmon Committee concluded in 1950 that the Strategic Air Command had the capacity to destroy only about 30 – 40 per cent of Russia 's industrial power . |
| 13 | As Gains ( from Toronto , but now living in Croydon ) told me in an interview in 1980 : ‘ The only time Godfrey had the handcuffs off was when he was fighting another black man . ’ |
| 14 | The small railway outpost had the Indian sign on it when closure came entirely on I January 1917 in the midst of World War I. However , some five years later the GWR had a change of heart and decided to reopen the station to goods traffic on 18 September 1922 . |
| 15 | As it happens , intervention might at least have tided the Government through the Conservative Party conference had the Bundesbank not intervened . |
| 16 | Rangers piled on the pressure in the last 15 minutes and an instinctive Mathers save kept out Mark Hateley but the big Rangers frontman had the final say after Dundee had been reduced to ten men . |
| 17 | But the decisive telephone call had the right result : Joan was a winner ! |
| 18 | The new Mamey Abbey had the appropriate symbolism , for ‘ the portal opened to a hall , such as is now rarely found ; with the dais , the screen , the gallery , and buttery-hatch all perfect , and all of carved black oak ’ . |