Example sentences of "[adj] had [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The French had a revolution once , ’ Sabine pointed out mildly . |
| 2 | ( This had no bearing on the incinerable nature of the occasion ; it was merely a great favourite of us both . ) |
| 3 | This had no connection with the Co-operative Union of Tanganyika ; despite the name of its owner , Ulimwengu was a private paper . |
| 4 | When after a moment it had not moved , I resorted to the car horn , but this had no effect other than to make the creature commence pecking at something on the ground . |
| 5 | That this had no effect on The Smiths was a sign of the lasting nature of their true audience . |
| 6 | This had no effect on the rate ratio estimates but the width of the confidence intervals was increased by about 50% . |
| 7 | Seeing this had no effect , she continued , ‘ Ace cut our date last night because of you ! ’ |
| 8 | This had a dollar value of $1,000 billion , roughly one fifth of US GNP . |
| 9 | This had a range of meanings , but was based on the idea that an individual could stand for a race , or prefigure other individuals not yet born . |
| 10 | This had a bearing on the second feature of the report : its strong recommendation about the need for more advice and education in home-making and home-budgeting . |
| 11 | This had a brass plate labelled " Stavanger " , and was locked . |
| 12 | This had a tube in between the two rails . |
| 13 | This had a circulation approaching two million at the end of the war , ranking it ahead of six out of ten national Sundays . |
| 14 | this had a cup of coffee you know and |
| 15 | This had a record of superb parish priests and a full congregation . |
| 16 | This had a number of advantages . |
| 17 | This had a pH of 7.4 to 7.6 at 37°C . |
| 18 | This had the advantage of assuring leadership by a strong adult rather than the possibility of a child inheriting — a hazard which was so frequently to affect the later Stuart dynasty . |
| 19 | This had the advantage of giving a Christmas respite of six weeks . |
| 20 | This had the advantage that ‘ lower ’ races could be dismissed as earlier steps in the advance that had survived into the present in parts of the world where there had been less stimulus for mental development . |
| 21 | The study was confined to the North-East , but this had the advantage of providing the authors with a large number of Far Eastern companies , reputedly the highest concentration of Japanese firms in the country . |
| 22 | This had the advantage of being simple to operate and relatively cheap . |
| 23 | This had the effect of giving the BBC an effective monopoly as advertising revenue could best be maximized by providing an alternative to sport on independent television . |
| 24 | This had the effect of significantly lowering the melting point of the niello , allowing it to be melted into finely engraved designs . |
| 25 | This had the effect of focusing attention on the island group as a geographical unit . |
| 26 | This had the effect of breaking down the structure of the pellets , and repetition caused the complete destruction of the pellet . |
| 27 | This had the effect of making the differences between owl and diurnal raptor digestion appear greater than it really is , and it seemed to confirm earlier reports of minimal effects of digestion in owls ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Duke et al . , |
| 28 | This had the effect of providing good development opportunities to hotel and restaurant staff , excellent placements for students , the chance for restaurant managers ' skills to be updated and income for the college . |
| 29 | This had the effect of slowing the rate of rotation as the Sun was induced to emulate the filament around it . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , this had the effect of making it also extremely mobile during transport , and it was sliding about at every bend in the road . |