Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal stated that the Board did have a duty to act fairly which entailed granting B and K the opportunity to satisfy them of matters in the statute , and to let B and K know the impressions of the Board so that they might be dispelled ; but the Board did not have to quote ‘ chapter and verse , ’ nor did it have to disclose the source of its information if it would be contrary to the public interest , nor did the reasons for the refusal have to be given . |
| 2 | If the kitchen had had a serving hatch , I could have scared the living daylights out of them . |
| 3 | It seemed that both incomers and Shetlanders presumed that the researchers did have a clearcut image of conflict in the area and that they were just fiddling about trying to show it , rather than attempting to do something about it ( e.g. putting the incomers somewhere else , helping out the incomers for once , etc . ) . |
| 4 | Prepared in only a few weeks to satisfy an urgent need for cash on the part of Steinitz , who is building an auction house complex at Saint Ouen in the suburbs of Paris , the auction did have a catalogue covering 352 major items but without printed estimates . |
| 5 | On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road . |
| 6 | Yeah I think they had their own little meetings in various pubs or whatever after our meetings , and certainly the management in one of the quarries seemed to have a lot of information about what went on in our lodge meetings because of various members of this clique , I think we were all fairly sure that they would be returning to work , it was just when that was the crunch . |
| 7 | But the community did have a couple of heroes in the military sense when the Second World War came , both members of a family which plays a leading role in the modern legends of Baldersdale — the Fawcetts of West Birk Hatt |
| 8 | But the town had to have a gaol to justify its claim . |
| 9 | In 1750 the town sought to have a linen market set up but met with opposition from Richhill where a linen market had been flourishing . |
| 10 | Veterans of many WAAF reunions , the group decided to have a holiday together , and with kind help from Richard Branson and Virgin Airlines , spent two weeks in Florida . |
| 11 | The archer had to have a face . |
| 12 | The owners decided to have a depot ship to house strike breakers . |
| 13 | The patients studied had a range of asthma severity , with maximal period diurnal variation in peak expiratory flow ranging from 23 to 79% and from 0.11 to 102.0 mg/ml being required to cause a 20% drop in forced expiratory volume ( PC 2 ) . |
| 14 | The complaint , filed on 19 December , stated that the government had had a duty to inform Pan Am of information in its possession that a terrorist organization was planning to place a bomb on a Pan Am flight from either Frankfurt or London , specifically on Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 , and had ‘ negligently failed to inform Pan Am ’ . |
| 15 | The Yard had had a tip months before that a big drug-ring was setting up a new and major operation in England . |
| 16 | Presumably the box had to have a master . |
| 17 | Joan asked if the police had had a warrant and she replied , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 18 | Before Punjab came under British rule in 1849 the peasants had had a right to farm the land but had not owned it , in the sense of being able to sell it off . |
| 19 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 20 | The government was still the king 's government : the monarch retained great influence over the administration and to the end of the century expected to have a say , even a dominant say , in the making of policy . |
| 21 | During 1973–5 , in the wake of the oil crisis and the Middle East War , the company had had a borrowing facility from the Midland Bank of £100,000 yet they were , in fact , overdrawn by some £300,000 . |
| 22 | The inquiry will seek to find out how the prisoner came to have a razor . |
| 23 | The criteria included having a workplace policy on smoking , encouraging staff to take more exercise and ensuring that the staff restaurant offers a healthy food choice . |
| 24 | Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name . |
| 25 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |
| 26 | The family seemed to have a bias towards pink . |
| 27 | I only y well you see the Romans did have a word you know they had a phrase , have you heard about that Roman phrase ? |
| 28 | Even the son had had a tang to him , although he had proved surprisingly hard to digest at the end . |
| 29 | The cheque was dishonoured and the sellers claimed to have a lien over the mowra seed which was still in their possession . |