Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In formulating the original agreement with Fields , Branson had ensured a clause be written in stipulating that , under the Articles , Virgin as the majority shareholder had the right to appoint more than two ‘ A ’ directors , and thereby gain a majority of the board , if it was ‘ not satisfied with the financial position , or the management position of the company ’ . |
| 2 | The bowel site had the greatest effect on crypt cell production ( ileum>caecum>distal colon ) . |
| 3 | The Defence Fellowship thesis of Tim Grant had shown that aircraft maintenance planning had the characteristics of job-shop scheduling . |
| 4 | The début single had the desired effect of stirring up a wealth of excitement . |
| 5 | The questions , listed for today in the Commons order paper , ask whether the fraud squad had the copy , if any disciplinary action had been taken against any officer and whether criminal inquiries are being pursued . |
| 6 | A vendor rating exercise had the Spondon-based business performing best overall in areas such as technical , production , commercial , delivery and quality . |
| 7 | In 1971 the South West had the lowest number of births with 13.9 per 1,000 women , compared with Northern Ireland which recorded 20.7 per 1,000 . |
| 8 | No eighteenth-century peace plan had the slightest chance of being put into practice . |
| 9 | Not since a bony young Yorkshireman , Len Hutton , batted into a third day in August 1938 against Bradman 's Australia to pass the Don 's record score for a test match had the British known such transcendent moments of self-belief through sport . |
| 10 | Renewed commitment to child welfare had the initial effect of inducing parents to desert their offspring at an even faster rate . |
| 11 | A very thoughtful cricketer , with a much greater knowledge of the game 's history than most players , one had the impression that he could have made a fine Test captain had the chance come earlier . |
| 12 | We found 3% of new patients attending a mixed general medical/gastroenterology clinic had the condition . |
| 13 | But the decisive telephone call had the right result : Joan was a winner ! |
| 14 | The problem with the stock market crash was that index arbitrage and portfolio insurance had the effect of feeding off each other and driving down share prices . |
| 15 | Perhaps not surprisingly , the women transferred to consultant care had the highest perinatal mortality rates . |
| 16 | The ruling effectively voided the British legal notion of the " discretionary " life sentence , under which the Home Office had the power to extend prisoners ' actual terms in gaol , or detain them again after an initial release ( known as " release under licence " ) if they were deemed to be a danger to society . |
| 17 | Consequently , the residence requirement had the effect of excluding from the United Kingdom sea fishing industry the vast majority of Community citizens who were not resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | Immediately , the Coventry team manager had the news flashed up on the giant electronic message board at the end of the ground . |
| 19 | It would , nonetheless , have saved us millions of pounds in tax relief had the building been declared listed . ’ |
| 20 | Moreover , in these works one can see the beginnings of Burn 's highly systematised manner of design : the Merchant Maiden and Greenock Custom House had the same strict 1:4 ratio of height to width as Covent Garden while standard scales were , as far as circumstances would allow , adopted for the orders and such things as doorcases . |
| 21 | To neither form of business undertaking had the privilege of limited liability yet been conceded . |
| 22 | Moreover , it was the acceleration of food prices — largely as a result of developments in the grain market — which , of any ( non-oil ) commodity price rise had the greatest overall effect on inflation . |
| 23 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 24 | The assortment of star quality on display at Thursday 's Starsearch heat in Derry 's Delacroix Inn had the judging panel transfixed . |
| 25 | His shaping room had the brightly lit intensity of an operating theatre , the mystery of a chemical laboratory . |
| 26 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 27 | The Local Education Authority had the right to take up another 25 per cent of the places ( the so-called ‘ reserved ’ places ) . |
| 28 | Despite their renewed popularity in the 1950s , no Tiller troupe had the pleasure of visiting America again . |
| 29 | The second carter would be having Well the the first carter h the head carter had the best team of course , ploughing . |
| 30 | In his criticisms of what he claimed was UN inaction Boutros-Ghali had the support of the senior UN representative in Somalia , Mohammed Sahnoun of Algeria . |