Example sentences of "[noun sg] had one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The division of the county into electoral districts of equal size within which each ratepayer had one vote — voting to be by ballot ; |
| 2 | A stage intermediate between these two ideas was reflected in the Companies Clauses Act 1845 which provided that in the absence of contrary provision in the special statute every shareholder had one vote for every share up to ten , one for every additional five up to a hundred and one for every ten thereafter , thus weighting the voting in favour of the smaller holders . |
| 3 | Nevertheless in 1987 Dublin North-East had one TD for every 12,712 electors and Dublin South-Central one for every 17,071 . |
| 4 | No but , what the bloke had one half and you had to have the other half . |
| 5 | The plan had one drawback : the advancing Germans would violate Belgian and Dutch neutrality , guaranteed by Great Britain , Austria , France , Germany and Russia , thus bringing Great Britain into the war on the Allied side . |
| 6 | Each child had one pair of all-purpose shoes but often there was little more than the uppers remaining . |
| 7 | The job had one stipulation — the wooden floor had to be scrubbed completely once a week . |
| 8 | Winners selected in the draw had one chance , and one only , to net a basket from the half court line during a Lakers match . |
| 9 | But , overshadowing all purely technical considerations , the Phillips curve had one attraction which made it even more irresistible : its subject matter was ‘ important ’ . |
| 10 | In Chester one shop had one copy left and would save it for me if I could get there that afternoon . |
| 11 | ‘ Ummmm … there was a split in the fact that one person had one record label and the other person had another , and he also had KLF as well . |
| 12 | Herbert and his wife had one son and three daughters , the youngest of whom , Laura , was the wife of Evelyn Waugh [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | The other woman had one hand on her throat and she was squeezing brutally . |
| 14 | The tin-dipped stamped iron coffin furniture had one drawback : it was not possible to cut lettering into the depositum plates . |
| 15 | Originally the church had one dome raised on a tall drum but in later periods further domes were added so that now there are six . |
| 16 | The university had one college , Birkbeck , which awarded degrees to evening students so that they might work at their jobs during the day . |
| 17 | The Gaelic course had one tutor and one student . |
| 18 | Of the local evenings , only the London Evening Standard had one item . |
| 19 | The fact that some countries who were signatories of the Convention had one system and some another reinforced the court in its view that no single system could be called for . |
| 20 | One company had one planner , whilst another had 50 planners . |
| 21 | So Grandma and Grandad had one bedroom , Mother , Father and me slept in the other one , and the two brothers slept downstairs . |
| 22 | The Hatton flat and the Cullam house had one thing in common , an automatic washing machine . |
| 23 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |