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 | However , the more difficult question is whether the defendant had the necessary animus possidendi . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In all my time here I ‘ ve had the final say on the many , many , decisions which concerned playing matters . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But Modernism had the odd distinction of starting foreign and staying foreign . |
| 12 | The idea was sound , but events of 14 July made it futile , for Bismarck 's telegram had the desired effect . |
| 13 | The scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner , with the canvas a blend of sea , sky , fog and rain . |
| 14 | The White House committee had the full reports of Dr Barnard and Dr Macdonald in front of them . |
| 15 | The assortment of star quality on display at Thursday 's Starsearch heat in Derry 's Delacroix Inn had the judging panel transfixed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By the fifth week , La Croix was linking names of bishops with the general gist of what they had said in the debates : its editor had the good fortune himself to be a peritus . |
| 19 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |
| 20 | The management had the financial support of the Industrial Bank of Japan , the Employers Federation ensured that Nissan 's subcontractors would receive alternative orders , and its rivals guaranteed that they would not steal its markets while the firm was out of production . |
| 21 | The ceiling had the creamy colour of a pub and everything in the place smelled ; it was always a simple matter to discover which files had passed through James 's hands , just by sniffing them . |
| 22 | A vendor rating exercise had the Spondon-based business performing best overall in areas such as technical , production , commercial , delivery and quality . |
| 23 | ‘ A friend of mine owned the studio and had been in the music industry a long time and was amazed that this 16-year-old had the whole production idea worked out in her head . ’ |
| 24 | The Chancellor had the Prime Minister 's support , according to government sources , in intervening to the tune of $2bn to $3bn to shore up the pound after pressure intensified following the news two weeks ago of a £2bn current account deficit in August — the third worst on record . |
| 25 | The Tunisian national team had the questionable pleasure of sharing a training camp with Scotland , their manager Abdelmajid Chetali claimed that Scottish players spent most of their time shirking training . |
| 26 | There were no children playing , no neighbours talking , and the whole place had the deserted air of an American neighbourhood on Thanksgiving Day . |
| 27 | Usually the familiar beauty of this place had the very opposite effect on her , but today as she headed towards Loch Lomond she was filled with a terrible sense of doom . |
| 28 | His neighbour 's mongrel had the unfortunate habit of strolling next door and urinating in his police dog 's food . |
| 29 | And it was n't only swabs ; one tightly-wrapped package had the general shape and the unmistakable weight of a human arm . |
| 30 | 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 . |