Example sentences of "[noun sg] had three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first committee had three members from Glenties , two from Ardara , three from Lettermacaward and one from Raphoe . |
| 2 | Right a trireme a Greek warship had three layers did n't it ? |
| 3 | The plan had three parts . |
| 4 | The main mill had three water wheels and Spring Mill a single 20 foot wheel . |
| 5 | The Exeter canal had three locks of this type . |
| 6 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
| 7 | The product had three elements . |
| 8 | and his room had three windows erm and I , mine only had two |
| 9 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 10 | It had three big red plush armchairs , and the table against the wall had three dining chairs with plush seats as well . |
| 11 | He felt that the concept had three meanings . |
| 12 | The borrower had three ways of repaying his loan , either starting at once , in three months or nine months time . |
| 13 | He and his wife had three sons , all of whom became railway engineers , and one daughter . |
| 14 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |
| 15 | From various other coins we can see that the pediment had three openings or windows and was decorated with four sculptural figures below a central Medusa head at the apex . |
| 16 | The apple had three bites out of it . |
| 17 | The flat had three rooms . |
| 18 | The trade had three branches : coffin-making , undertaking and funeral furnishing . |
| 19 | The Comintern policy had three levels of application in Britain . |
| 20 | We can see from ( 47 ) that the cylinder had three soundtracks side-by-side ; presumably it was recorded by three cutters side-by-side , in which case the record would have stereophonic properties . |
| 21 | The army had three choices in Bosnia . |
| 22 | Latin and Greek had three genders ( as does modern German ) ; there are also languages with two ( such as French ) and languages which have a much larger set ( African Bantu languages , for example ) . |
| 23 | The artist had three sittings at Highgrove , each supposedly an hour in length , but each of which in fact lasted throughout each of the three mornings . |
| 24 | The short cloak had three advantages over the coat : it need not be tailored and so was available ‘ off the peg ’ ; it was more fashionable ; and it allowed unhindered access to the sword . |
| 25 | In Northampton , the Pratts were innholders from the reign of Henry VIII to George I , the Lyons family lasted for four generations and in the mid-seventeenth century had three brothers who were prominent in the trade , and the Peaches eventually acquired quite a chain of inns . |
| 26 | The workshop and home economics area were also impressive , and the school had three computers . |
| 27 | In Hope 's original draft , Pennethorne was dismissed on the grounds that his scheme had three faults . |
| 28 | Place 's first master had three daughters who were prostitutes , a son who picked pockets and another who was a different sort of thief . |
| 29 | Thanks to Cawston , that goal had three points stamped on it . |
| 30 | Each patient had three measurements of bone mineral density and rates of bone loss were estimated by linear regression for each subject . |