Example sentences of "had [adj] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Joe Franklin saw the use of 114-seat twin-cars as the answer to rising crew costs , which had outmoded the original concept of small 48-seat cars . |
| 2 | And yet , where Beloved had all the devastating impact of a road accident , the terrifying unexpectedness of random violence , Jazz lacks that novel 's eviscerating pull . |
| 3 | Angela , 19 , from Woolton and presently studying medicine at Nottingham University , says : ‘ I had all the classic symptoms of flu so I put it down to that . |
| 4 | I had all the usual notions of the time about the need for chastity . |
| 5 | One way was to synthesize compounds which had all the useful properties of 6-MP but were not attacked by xanthine oxidase : this was achieved with the synthesis of a substance later named azathioprine . |
| 6 | ‘ A Bit of a Smash in Madras ’ , told in the words of an English employee of a company in the east , had all the best qualities of his prose : pace , realism ( Connolly was amazed to learn that he had never been in India ) , exact rendering of the spoken word . |
| 7 | One of the Instructors was an Irish gentleman by the name of Fagan who had all the Gaelic charm of the Irish and , more especially , a great mass of raven-black hair exquisitely waved from his brow to the nape of the neck . |
| 8 | Yes , I had all the other feelings of distress and fear , I thought of the world at war , I remembered the last war of 1914 — 18 when I was still a schoolboy and I had experienced the air raids on London then . |
| 9 | It had all the required characteristics of a living being and Lovelock concluded that this indeed was what it was . |
| 10 | A labyrinth of rooms and corridors which had all the welcoming atmosphere of the interrogation centre in the Lubyanka in Moscow . |
| 11 | These had all the Gothic characteristics of a vertical emphasis and elements of decoration and structure , but were more symmetrical and dignified . |
| 12 | It had all the rugged grandeur of the sea-girt castle of a medieval Danish warrior-king . |
| 13 | Shady Marcus at last exposed the soap 's Mr Big but it had all the dramatic impact of one of those dated Ealing comedies where George Cole plays a gangster as threatening as a game show host . |
| 14 | The Rutland jurors again asserted that King John , who seems to have been cast by popular tradition as the villain of the piece , had afforested the greater part of the forest in that country , whereas it seems in fact to have been a creation of Henry I. In Exmoor , the Buckinghamshire part of Bernwood , Cumberland , Worcestershire and Wiltshire the perambulations of 1300 demanded more extensive disafforestments than ever before : more than half the forest area that remained in England was declared to be outside the ancient bounds . |