Example sentences of "[noun] had [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Poles had nurtured the hope that the French would restore the old Polish state with Danzig attached as before , but Napoleon had other ideas . |
| 2 | By 1939 ( the only year for which figures are available ) the borough had ten branches with a total membership of 788 ( WCG Annual Report 1939 ) . |
| 3 | Intervention by national and local government to reduce environmental risks had dramatic effects on urban death-rates . |
| 4 | By the end of the year , the Association had two Lodges with residents in occupation , and a third in the final stages of conversion . |
| 5 | Bischof had long conversations with him in Paris and London , in which they discussed choices to be made , goals to be pursued , and the practical and moral aspects of their work . |
| 6 | By 1887 , the brigade had new uniforms and brass helmets . |
| 7 | The second difference is that turnover on the management and supervisory boards was high : AEG had eight departures and 11 new arrivals on its management board in 1980–89 ; Bayer 11 departures and seven arrivals ; MAN two departures and seven arrivals . |
| 8 | Perhaps only the first Test between New Zealand and South Africa in 1952–53 can rank with it , when each side had four players whose surname started with the letter M. South Africa had McGlew , McLean , Murray and Mansell , while the New Zealanders fielded Meuli , Miller , Mooney and Moir . |
| 9 | Those on its northern side had ample yards or gardens abutting Great Prescott Street , which itself gave onto Goodman 's Fields . |
| 10 | No , as Geoff Cooke admitted , ‘ this side had some flaws . ’ |
| 11 | These questions were , to a greater or lesser degree , part and parcel of the armed confrontation , in so far as each side had opposing views on them , but they were merely strands in the overall picture , not the underlying design . |
| 12 | The Club claimed that this was because the premises were licensed but fans had other interpretations . |
| 13 | The technique during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had four stages . |
| 14 | Marie , still in her pyjamas , was sitting slumped at the table that took up most of the floor space : you had to squeeze round it to move about at all in the tiny kitchen , and Marie 's legs had permanent bruises from its sharp comers . |
| 15 | But Neil had other ideas . |
| 16 | Such reasoning had two flaws . |
| 17 | His work as the pioneer of fingerprinting was later built upon by Sir Francis Galton and Sir Edward Henry [ qq.v. ] , whose methodical and systematic methods had practical applications for the detection of criminals . |
| 18 | But Richard Walker had other ideas , with just two minutes to go he coughed up . |
| 19 | Farther south , the Andean civilisation had more similarities with Mesopotamia than with China ; so the idea that its shaping influence came from across the Pacific seems especially far-fetched . |
| 20 | What is significant is that the signals had consistent characteristics , and we observed no other kinds of strong echoes in midwater . |
| 21 | Hens had horrible faces close to . |
| 22 | Although Pakistan had talented players and were formidable opposition ‘ we have the ability to beat them ’ . |
| 23 | last time Dennis had three subsections working for him and he 's got the equivalent of two now |
| 24 | We married them to make a strong peace ; their brothers had some women from us . ’ |
| 25 | By the 1840s , the Smith brothers had 60 employees , many of them females , working 10 hours per day and 6 days per week . |
| 26 | Most have been inaccessible to historians , because few record offices had adequate indexes . |
| 27 | Indeed , when Franco was made head of government in September 1936 , it was as much because all the other candidates had important flaws as in recognition of his merits . |
| 28 | The waves had white caps now and they seemed to effervesce as they swept by . |
| 29 | About 70 million years ago the brain of the most advanced animals had cerebral hemispheres , but they composed a third or less of the whole brain . |
| 30 | Later animals had deeper cups filled with many light-sensitive cells , until gradually more complex true eyes evolved , and made eye-spots redundant . |