Example sentences of "[noun] had [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Tillyard could defend his belief in such a body by the existence of a considerable number of Renaissance texts in cheap , modern editions which general readers had access to .
2 The theory that the poet had access to deep and primitive levels put him awkwardly alongside the Romantic ‘ explorers ’ .
3 And Doc Threadneedle had access to that technology .
4 It was established in 1945 as the Industrial , Commercial and Financial Corporation to try to ensure that British industry had access to sufficient funds to feed its long-term growth .
5 However , the case of In re Mew and Thorne ( 1862 ) 31 L.J.Bank. 87 shows that even in the middle of the last century the rule was not absolute : in that case Lord Westbury L.C. in construing an Act had regard to its Parliamentary history and drew an inference as to Parliament 's intention in passing the legislation from the making of an amendment striking out certain words .
6 of all general practitioners in the NHS had access to a computer .
7 As Mr Sanderson was pouring the drinks Maggie had time to quickly glance about her .
8 The shapechanger was approaching ; he was hot and bothered and , for the first time , Chopra had access to his mind .
9 Leconte had reason to be pleased .
10 Only large record companies had access to sufficient finance to make that kind of investment .
11 Far more settlements had access to areas of common and waste than is generally acknowledged in books about the English landscape ( Fig. 82 ) .
12 Nottingham Crown Court was told that by the age of nine weeks , the child had fractures to both collar bones , both legs and an arm as well as a broken skull .
13 Michael Codron had reason to be grateful that it was , especially when in January 1958 it transferred for a third time — or even a fifth , if the pre-West End runs at the Theatre Royal Brighton , and the original Cambridge version , were taken into account — to the Garrick Theatre .
14 The Essex team had reason to be grateful to the weather when a down-pour at the Southend Spring Festival ( 16 May ) brought crowds into the covered area just in time to watch them perform .
15 In 1977 , only 45% of the population had access to public health services and 9% to the private sector .
16 This revealed that astonishingly rapid progress had taken place , such that the greater part of the county had in operation schemes based on the Haycocks II model , so that the majority of the population had access to some training on these lines .
17 The move follows the recent series of leaks to the media demonstrating that loyalist terrorists had access to confidential security force files and photographs on suspected republican activists .
18 Many other men and organisations had reason to be proud of the parts they had played in the drama .
19 Few classes had access to an extensive range of poetry or play texts and little use was made of pre-20th century literature .
20 The Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement was reported to contain a formalization of existing channels through which US investigators had access to Panamanian banking records .
21 Clare 's contemporaries in the wetlands had reason to be concerned more for their own survival than that of moles and willow trees .
22 Nevertheless , these apparently simple arrangements belie more complex interrelationships ( Fig. 85 ) : not all places had access to sufficient wood stocks , and owners of well-wooded land would not only supply their own estates but also sell wood to less-wooded estates .
23 Tom had reason to be wary .
24 Where once the banks had access to regulated supplies of cheap money , they now have to raise nearly 70% of their funds in the open market .
25 Certainly , and not surprisingly , the higher stratum of more secure workers and to a lesser extent their families had access to better health and also housing provision in this period before the state played a significant role in either area — at least for as long as they remained in fairly regular work .
26 In those societies , argues the anthropologists , people related to each other had obligations to each other , solely because they could trace links through parenthood or marriage .
27 Many times he had been able to explain the results of complicated chemical analyses performed in conjunction with his own rôle , for which Montgomery had cause to be grateful .
28 Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population .
29 If Mountbatten was worried about a possible rising , the AFPFL had cause to be worried about British repression .
30 As regards malicious referrals , what seemed to be the case in a very few instances was that at least some of the allegations had substance to them and were worthy of investigation , but in discussion with the parents it seemed possible that the referrer might be using the allegation to progress some dispute with them .
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