Example sentences of "[adj] had [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French had little room for manoeuvre , and in May 1358 a treaty known as the ‘ First Treaty of London ’ was drawn up , under which Edward was to have a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes . |
| 2 | Again , in the case of Vietnam , this was accompanied by bitter political acrimony , at least on the operational level , between the Americans on the one side , the British and French on the other , about whether or not the French fighting in Vietnam were to be regarded as allies and whether or not the French had any entitlement to resume their pre-war position in Indochina . |
| 3 | He no longer thought the French had any intention of leaving Vietnam . |
| 4 | I mean if this had all sort of come before left we 'd have got it through no problem |
| 5 | er , this had that night er but , one , in one bit it said he said that night they di fa found that Melissico was n't enjoyed talking to them long af till long after the stars came out . |
| 6 | But this list was denied him in other areas and he then used school lists , projecting forward for the people who had left school ; but this had many errors and losses , with people moving home . |
| 7 | There was a prison hospital with twelve beds , but this had little equipment and only basic drugs . |
| 8 | This had little chance of support from Democratic leaders , who seized the opportunity to publicize administration support for tax concessions for the rich . |
| 9 | The correction of the rates by logistic regression slightly increased the width of the confidence intervals , but this had little effect on our conclusions . |
| 10 | A small number of Palestinian workers were permitted to enter Israel from Feb. 10 , but this had little impact on the mounting economic problems in the occupied territories . |
| 11 | But none of this had much importance . |
| 12 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 13 | This had some value , leading old ladies to get up and give me their seat on public transport . |
| 14 | This had some claim to be the hotbed of British fascism in the 1920s owing to the fact that Leese and a colleague had successfully stood for the local council on a British fascist policy in 1924 . |
| 15 | Again , this had some appeal both to the industrial managers of the Federation of British Industry , who had called for ‘ planning ’ at their 1960 conference as a way out of the damaging ‘ stop-go ’ cycle ( Jessop , 1980 ) , and to the party activists for whom ‘ planning ’ meant increased government control over industrial enterprises . |
| 16 | None of this had any effect on the two Williams drivers , and they made their customary start . |
| 17 | The doctor suggested that she might avoid milk , cheese and butter for a while , to see if this had any effect , and prescribed some tablets to give her extra calcium . |
| 18 | In addition to generating a mistrust of politics and political parties , this had another effect — the rise of the bureaucrat . |
| 19 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | However , around half had some concerns about awarding merit on the basis of the additional assessment . |
| 21 | Although tired and running out of provisions , the English had several advantages : a good defensive position ; a united command ; and the use of an army which had already proved highly successful against the Scots , a combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms for which , in the conditions prevailing on the day , the French cavalry and the crossbowmen of their Genoese allies proved no match . |
| 22 | They might have been supplied by sea , but the English had more ships than that first fleet driven off , and presently many vessels appeared at the mouth of Tweed , not to attempt attack this time but to patrol up and down , blockading the harbour . |
| 23 | They did not : the Canadians had one sort of sovereign , and the British had another sort . |
| 24 | Few had any experience of the industry they were investing in . |
| 25 | Few had any experience of combat , although Dave Kershaw had served as a volunteer during the Spanish Civil War . |
| 26 | Few had any experience of moving about and getting together , and unless educated , which only a small minority was , had no expectation of improving their condition . |
| 27 | Although Smith 's contemporaries held him in high regard for his remarkable administrative skill and consummate powers of conciliation , few had any understanding of his real scientific achievement until the Academy 's prize brought him posthumous international recognition . |
| 28 | Relatively few had any A-level passes and only one in seven were skilled manual workers . |
| 29 | Thatched roof , two storeys , the second had more mullion windows hunched inside the thatch . |
| 30 | Whether the accused had that intent had to be left to the jury . |