Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RAF had the unenviable task of bombing the Nazi munition factories , knowing that they were manned by forced labour from conquered European countries . |
| 2 | If a state failed to develop or execute a satisfactory plan , the EPA had the authority to intervene directly . |
| 3 | Lave and Omenn ( 1981 ) claim long-term trends conceal that during the 1970s ‘ dirty air got cleaner and the clean air got a little dirtier ’ , for it was not until the 1977 Amendments that the EPA had the authority to prevent the worsening of air quality in pristine areas . |
| 4 | It was in the nation 's interest to have a better-educated populace and the WEA had the tradition and the expertise to achieve this , if an expansion of its work could be financed and more full-time staff appointed ; in particular , it had a major contribution to make to trade union education . |
| 5 | It was an even bet that whoever was in the Renault had the Bonnards ' documents and would use the open-ended return tickets . |
| 6 | The largest party in the League of Free Democrats electoral alliance , the LDP had the day before renamed itself and declared its intention to merge with the West German free democrat FDP , if possible by the end of 1990 . |
| 7 | It was unclear whether the Ukraine had the power to carry out these resolutions ; the final decisions on such matters had hitherto always been taken in Moscow . |
| 8 | Would that the CND had the courage to say so . |
| 9 | The system offered by the CNAA had the advantage that it drew upon much wider academic expertise than any single institution could offer . |
| 10 | Boswell 's counterpoint to this recitative divulges that among their books the Mackinnons had the shorter version of Johnson 's own Dictionary , and that , notwithstanding the merry and warm respect they received from the household , the place began to feel like a prison on account of the adverse weather . |
| 11 | The declaration proclaimed further that the Russian people had the sole right to own , utilize and dispose of Russia 's natural wealth ; that the RSFSR had the right to form its own diplomatic links with other Soviet republics and foreign states ; and that it had the right to participate in the exercise of powers which it had voluntarily passed to the Union . |
| 12 | The BMW had the power — too much for the traffic conditions if truth were known — but Armstrong knew the side roads better . |
| 13 | The Lesters had the edge in seniority with veterans from Chicago and New York ( André Emmerich , Forum , Richard Gray , Carl Hammer , Nancy Hoffman , R.S. Johnson , Phyllis Kind , Zolla-Lieberman and Holly Solomon ) , along with Annely Juda and Waddington from London . |
| 14 | That eventuality would have been a worry for the UN had the Bosnian Serbs said Yes and thereby set the scene for the biggest UN peacekeeping operation ever . |
| 15 | We would love to put out title on the line , if the IRB had the guts and the vision to give us that chance . |
| 16 | The government had started to take expert advice on how TV might be extended as early as 1943 ; so the BBC had the signal to go ahead almost as soon as the war ended . |
| 17 | On test when it matters , ie swimming in white water , the Aqua-Pak had the advantage of being easier to swim in than many larger more bulky buoyancy aids though it was essential to have the jacket well fitting and done up properly as , like other buoyancy aids of this style , it could easily ride up the body . |
| 18 | Making international comparisons between seven EEC countries , Japan and USA , the data shows that the UK had the lowest death rate of these nine ( 9.4 per 100 000 population ) and Portugal the highest in the EEC countries with 30.2 per 100 000 population . |
| 19 | In 1973 the UK had the smallest dependence on EC markets of any of the nine EC members , and this was still the case ten years later . |
| 20 | However , the agreement also included a paragraph based on a proposal by Sihanouk which stipulated that the SNC had the authority to elect a " 13th member " as its chair . |
| 21 | Dharsono , who had been released from prison in September 1990 after serving over four years of a seven-year sentence for subversion [ see p. 37715 ] , said that the FPPS had the support of some 70 leading intellectuals and dissidents . |
| 22 | The opportunity to buy two outstanding adjoining properties in that location was extremely rare and the Perots had the opportunity to acquire them both as a family compound . |
| 23 | Saddam Hussein had overwhelming support from the vast majority of Jordanians , and the US intervention in the Gulf had the effect of uniting previously disparate political and social strands behind the King 's stance on the crisis . |
| 24 | Iraq had the overwhelming support of the vast majority of Jordanians , and the US intervention in the Gulf had the effect of uniting previously disparate political and social strands behind the King . |
| 25 | The Maniax had the launcher readied , and put an anti-tank missile into his stomach . |
| 26 | The DUP had the advantage over other politicians of not being in the game of pragmatic compromise . |
| 27 | The Severn had the longest uninterrupted stretch , and its 20- to 80-ton open barges carried down coal from Shropshire and salt from Droitwich , as well as agricultural produce , and brought up iron from the Forest of Dean for the Midlands metal makers , and a whole range of goods and groceries from Bristol . |
| 28 | The tries , three in the first half , when the USA had the wind advantage , were well taken , leaving the USA to ponder how a game where they had parity in the scrums and very much the upper hand out of touch , winning the lines-out 16–5 , could have been lost by such a comprehensive margin . |
| 29 | We can see this idea expressed in international relations between states : the USA could not defeat Vietnam despite the fact that in terms of military equipment the USA had the most powerful weapons . |
| 30 | The Minoans had the skill to make life-sized statues in stone or wood — or even ivory — if they chose : the elaborately carved stone vases and fragments of high quality frieze work in carved stone show this very clearly . |