Example sentences of "had [art] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only after the demise of the ruling reptiles that the class had the opportunity to capitalize on the evolutionary advantages which propelled them to the dominance they have enjoyed ever since . |
| 2 | Now he had the opportunity to stand at the counter with one of his mates and talk about other things . |
| 3 | The prime responsibility of the courts was to protect the public against a person who showed a propensity for very disturbing behaviour when he had the opportunity to interfere with the young and defenceless . |
| 4 | It seemed he had left in the Casa Guidi a gun of which he was fond , taking only his hunting rifle in case he had the chance to go into the country to shoot rabbits . |
| 5 | ‘ He had the chance to go to the States with them but he said , ‘ No ’ . |
| 6 | Minority groups had the chance to come into the studio and put over their point of view . |
| 7 | I had the chance to audition for the transfer to London cast of Another Country which requires young actors to play seventeen-year-olds . |
| 8 | ‘ As soon as she had the call to go to the scene , adrenalin would have started pouring into her bloodstream increasing her heart rate and alertness , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Her mouth was opening and shutting ; she had the urge to run from the room ; but then , this man was a doctor . |
| 10 | Yesterday , the Chancellor of the Exchequer had the cheek to intervene in the speech of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition on the national currency , when this week has shown that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor are powerless to defend our national currency against movements in the markets in Community countries and elsewhere . |
| 11 | The declaration proclaimed further that the Russian people had the sole right to own , utilize and dispose of Russia 's natural wealth ; that the RSFSR had the right to form its own diplomatic links with other Soviet republics and foreign states ; and that it had the right to participate in the exercise of powers which it had voluntarily passed to the Union . |
| 12 | Her complaint was that she had the right to return to the job she had left : if this was not possible because of redundancy , she had a right under s 45(3) of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 to be offered alternative employment if there was a suitable available vacancy . |
| 13 | It incorporated a Spanish proposal whereby EC citizens would be allowed to reside anywhere in the EC ( currently they only had the right to work throughout the EC ) and to vote in local and EC elections . |
| 14 | If he should come to hear of all this , however , he still had the right to apply to the court for a ‘ stay of execution ’ . |
| 15 | Too late now to withdraw this confession into privacy , even had that been the abbot 's inclination , for it had been spoken out before all the brothers , and as members of a body they had the right to share in the cure of all that here was curable . |
| 16 | Instead democracy came to embody the more limited claim that the working class had the right to compete within the established state institutions and within the established society , with the clear expectation that they would not use the state to intervene in society to effect fundamental change . |
| 17 | The deer by the creek had the misfortune to come to the roadside for an ill-judged second . |
| 18 | No organization had the energy to compete with the showmen . |
| 19 | This , in all probability , was approximately the state of man 's physical development when he first became aware that he had the power to partake to the full of the golden opportunities before him , and increase the richness of life by gradually controlling the residual violence which was an unavoidable by-product of his evolution . |
| 20 | Mrs M no longer had the time to devote to the girl who sought schooling for herself . |
| 21 | He did not believe God had the time to interfere in the petty affairs of men . |
| 22 | In his concluding remarks , the hon. Gentleman had the temerity to talk about the job losses that have been announced today by Gateway . |
| 23 | In view of the understandable difficulty that this inelegant and complex piece of legislation presented to these people , one must stand in awe at what one Member , Sir Michael Havers , had the temerity to say at the Third Reading of the Bill : ‘ One of the great ambitions of successive Parliaments is to simplify the laws that they pass and make them more readily understood . ’ |
| 24 | Michael Walsh was interested as an experienced teacher who had the confidence to experiment with the video and the professional security to use it effectively . |
| 25 | Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to reflect on the excellent report produced by Professor Glennerster and published by the King 's Fund , which shows that fund-holding practices are more effective and efficient in delivering health care to patients , and that they use their resources much better ? |
| 26 | I shall go into greater detail than my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East had a chance to do on the kinds of investment that can be produced , rather than the consumption boom which the Chancellor hopes for . |
| 27 | The Friendship Store is in the downtown area , and so we had a chance to stop on the way at the Tien An Men Gate ( the famous gate providing an entrance to the forbidden city ) , and Tien An Men Square , Peking 's equivalent of Trafalgar Square , except that it is about 20 times as big , and contains about one-twentieth of the traffic . |
| 28 | Andy worked mainly in the shop , but also had a chance to play with the Hunts as well as with other famous players of the 1970s such as Doug McLelland , John Garner and Peter Dawson . |
| 29 | Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to look at the Order Paper recently ? |
| 30 | ‘ It would give a better idea of the effectiveness of co-operation if the public had a chance to look at the frequency with which bombs are transported into Northern Ireland in vehicles stolen in the Republic . |