Example sentences of "a [noun sg] had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context Mr. Beloff relied on the decision of the House of Lords in In re An Inquiry under the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 [ 1988 ] A.C. 660 where the question arose whether a journalist had a reasonable excuse under section 178 of the Financial Services Act 1986 to refuse to answer questions put to him by inspectors , having regard to the terms of section 10 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 which provides : |
| 2 | A WOMAN and a child had a narrow escape yesterday when their car left the road . |
| 3 | Ralph believed that the dealers ' role was unrecognized , that dealers as a group had a poor reputation . |
| 4 | So if a person had a sore throat and it burned , this burning would be a particular symptom because it was limited to a single focus of his illness . |
| 5 | Yes , I would think that if a person had a normal personality , if the interaction between the in institution and the personality was normal , you 'd expect their interaction with other people to be normal . |
| 6 | At the same time the actions of Theudebert and Chilperic , as well as those of the disloyal followers covered by the Treaty of Andelot , show that kings were expected to offer incentives , and we may well believe that the distribution of land and wealth was the major factor in ensuring that a king had a loyal following . |
| 7 | The island is savage , blackened , proudly ruined , as if a god had a colossal tantrum and laid it to magnificent , careless waste . |
| 8 | A borrower had a personal covenant with the lender who could still sue for outstanding debts . |
| 9 | The most mouthwatering specimens tend to be found in limestones — famous sites are in the Silurian rocks of England and Mississipian rocks of the U.S.A. The group as a whole had a major crisis in the Permian , during which most of the Palaeozoic forms died out . |
| 10 | If a baby had a low birth weight this also increased the risk . |
| 11 | Since coming into the possession of the Society of Archers , the arrow has been stolen , gilded , pawned , left on a park bench all night and lost when a captain had a mental illness and lost his reason . |
| 12 | The problems and abuses connected with the laws of settlement will be discussed below ; for the moment we are concerned to stress that persons with a settlement in a parish had a real claim to relief should misfortune or simply age overtake them , or indeed if they could find no work or even none at wages sufficient for the support of the family . |
| 13 | Finally , the common law contained areas of tortious liability for interference with family and service relationships which were based upon the archaic idea that a man had a proprietary interest in the services of his family and his servants . |
| 14 | And there used to be a man had a little forge on the top , a chap named , an old man . |
| 15 | And if a man had a bent furrow or a hog 's trough ( a hollow between two furrow slices ) in his work , the mistake would soon be recorded in every farm and public house in the parish . |
| 16 | Working under pressure to meet a deadline had a motivating effect . |
| 17 | A doctor had a good night 's sleep at the weekend among frozen prawns . |
| 18 | A neighbour had a lucky escape , for she had left the couple 's house just minutes before . |
| 19 | The beneficiary under a trust had a fair prospect of recovering the object the settlor had intended for him . |
| 20 | At twenty she had become engaged , married on her twenty-first birthday , and within a year had a beautiful baby daughter to dandle on her knee … |
| 21 | At that time Kiev was one of Russia 's greatest cities and within half a century had a great cathedral and hundreds of churches . |
| 22 | He brought to his office a conviction that a bishop had a dual responsibility to serve both church and monarchy . |
| 23 | By this time I noticed that one of the electras and an exasparatus had a fungal growth on the whole body . |
| 24 | Here we do not make the common assumption mentioned but not specified in connection with the first three examples , which is that an effect had a single cause . |
| 25 | It might be obvious that an object had a religious purpose , but often even this is debatable : a small , crudely carved wooden figure might be the cult statue of a god , but it could equally well be a child 's toy . |