Example sentences of "[noun sg] had the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a somewhat smaller stand than the Association had the good fortune to occupy in previous years , Hotel olympia proved to be none the less hectic for HCIMA . |
| 2 | The Suffolk side had the perfect start , as the impressive Fry waltzed through the visitors ' defence to settle any early nerves and just six minutes later the title was effectively Tuddenham Road bound . |
| 3 | But the Lancashire side had the added ingredient of grit and some decisive tackling limited Swindon 's chances to two in an hour . |
| 4 | He thrust into her ripe fig , obviously believing that his penis had the magic power to make her his slave forever . |
| 5 | Brian Mahon might have skimped on comfort for the rest of the house , but his daughter 's bedroom had the best of everything . |
| 6 | However , the more difficult question is whether the defendant had the necessary animus possidendi . |
| 7 | But the old soldier had the last laugh . |
| 8 | The car had the usual teething problems and was not the equal of either the Lotus or the Ferrari , and Jackie 's only victory of the year was at Barcelona . |
| 9 | In all my time here I ‘ ve had the final say on the many , many , decisions which concerned playing matters . |
| 10 | Having a mind untrammelled by convention he offered the names ignose or godnose , but the editor of the Biochemical Journal would not accept either of them , so because the vitamin had the same empirical formula as glycuronic acid he called it hexuronic acid , leaving its structural chemistry to be determined later . |
| 11 | Adjustment for birth weight had the greatest effect on the perinatal mortality rates due to immaturity : the rate among women who were booked at general practitioner units and were delivered at hospital 1 fell from 3.6 to 1.0 . |
| 12 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 13 | He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition : |
| 14 | New College was an arsenal , Magdalen College had the heavy ordnance , which was clattering through the streets drawn by horses , whenever it was brought in . |
| 15 | And why , if his enemy had the same thought in mind , should he toss it back to him so carelessly ? |
| 16 | From that occasion Halima learnt that the fastest way to get a bucket of oats was to stand in the fence , and not even feeding excessive amounts of hay or removing the bottom two wires from the fence had the slightest effect in breaking this bad habit . |
| 17 | In the soul-searching and breast-beating following the defeat , many statements will be made that Labour had the best campaign and was ‘ winning the argument ’ . |
| 18 | Political intervention was advisable even when an applicant had the necessary financial strength to make a purchase , and if a gift of a commission was a greater compliment , permission to purchase was nonetheless gratefully accepted . |
| 19 | But Modernism had the odd distinction of starting foreign and staying foreign . |
| 20 | The idea was sound , but events of 14 July made it futile , for Bismarck 's telegram had the desired effect . |
| 21 | Bob Logist had the first and the last round drawn and the remainder for Leonard , while Joe Cortez gave the fourth , fifth , ninth and 10th rounds to Duran to produce the narrowest margin , 116-111 . |
| 22 | The scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner , with the canvas a blend of sea , sky , fog and rain . |
| 23 | That amp had the best sound I ever heard — there 's nothing to beat those old EL34s . |
| 24 | The White House committee had the full reports of Dr Barnard and Dr Macdonald in front of them . |
| 25 | Local people , however , often speak of Dent Town as a reminder of the days when Dent had the greater status . |
| 26 | Mowbray had met such men before ; some of his commanders in the knights hospitaller had the same gift as Athelstan of sensing every thought . |
| 27 | Those with unemployed fathers or from families receiving supplementary benefit had the lowest consumption of milk ’ . ’ |
| 28 | The assortment of star quality on display at Thursday 's Starsearch heat in Derry 's Delacroix Inn had the judging panel transfixed . |
| 29 | Since the plot had the usual operatic complication he had advised her to read the programme notes beforehand , and she perused them with a certain grim incredulity . |
| 30 | In order to make sure the dialogue had the authentic American tone , Mortimer had two American actors read it aloud and make comments before the script was given to the two leads . |