Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Board had the opportunity to take two people for the event but , presumably on Frank 's recommendation , they elected to take only one . |
| 2 | His lively description had the audience sharing the thoughts of the small boy as he travelled through Alresford , Romsey , Wimborne and Blandford , and almost feeling his stiff limbs and sore bottom . |
| 3 | The Board of Inland Revenue had the power to serve a notice on any body corporate , requiring particulars that appeared to them to be relevant to a transaction to which s 485 might apply . |
| 4 | But the old soldier had the last laugh . |
| 5 | The hon. Lady had the advantage of slipping out for an hour , when no doubt she managed to get hold of that news . |
| 6 | When I asked whether the hon. Lady had the leave of the House to speak again , there was no objection . |
| 7 | Has my right hon. Friend had the opportunity to read the scandalously deceitful national health service trust ballot which was put through my constituents ' letter boxes by Labour-controlled Harlow council — at an expense to the charge payers of £25,000 ? |
| 8 | Has my right hon. Friend had the chance to study the document entitled ’ The Citizen 's Charter ’ , which was written in 1921 by Herbert Morrison , then secretary of the London Labour party ? |
| 9 | In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons . |
| 10 | Then , luckily , Old Red had the bright idea of suggesting General Francis used his spinal trouble as his main reason for making this unexpected trip to Town . |
| 11 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to tell the gentleman that he might well see me in future as I shall be returning to the town in which I was born . |
| 12 | In his concluding remarks , the hon. Gentleman had the temerity to talk about the job losses that have been announced today by Gateway . |
| 13 | This cloying commercial clamour had the New Zealand public wound up . |
| 14 | It was now dusk but the old librarian had the sconce torches lit and gave Corbett what he had requested , a candle and a battered copy of the ‘ Sic et Non ’ , the brilliant satire on scholastic theology by the Parisian scholar , Abelard , who had lost his family as well as his testicles for ridiculing the theologians and then compounding his sin by falling in love with a woman . |
| 15 | A seven-member commission had the job of ranking the candidates on the basis of their scientific qualifications and on their performance at an oral examination consisting of a discussion of their scientific work and an academic lesson . |
| 16 | Introduced in May as an interim currency to overcome the cash shortage [ see p. 38926 ] , the Latvian rouble had the same value as the Russian . |
| 17 | Of course they laugh at Beryl and her friend , they think Francis was a bit weird , and the old man had the name for being tight fisted , but there 's no stick to beat a dog with in all that . ’ |
| 18 | Though the highbrow press had the highest level of political content , it also had relatively partisan readers , and more of a mission to inform , less of a mission to persuade . |
| 19 | The Lockerbie air disaster is regularly discussed in the House — including Government statements , when appropriate — and I recall that the hon. Member had the Adjournment debate on this very subject just last Monday . |
| 20 | John Lindsay , vice-chairman of CIPFA 's Scottish branch , said that if cost was a factor which was driving local government reorganisation then it was important that ministers and officials of the Scottish Office had the best information available . |
| 21 | The 30-year-old striker had the Hereford goal at his mercy in the 66th minute but volleyed over from six yards out as the game ended goalless . |
| 22 | We were appalled , though , at its appetite for electricity , even apart from the air-conditioning : the tiny kitchen had the water heater , the mighty cooker ( with its spotlights and extractor hood ) , the fridge , the dishwasher , the waste disposer — and , already plugged in , the coffee-maker , the toaster and the electrical can-opener . |
| 23 | Quoting the 1989 Constitution , Aikhomu said that only the future president had the authority to proclaim the holding of the first session of the legislature . |
| 24 | Laura declared , so viciously that Ross hoped his ex-personal assistant had the good sense to stay in Australia . |
| 25 | In the nature of things , only a tiny minority had the control of , or access to , the press and were thus able to exercise this freedom . |
| 26 | According to Article 55 , the future Chief Executive had the power to invite " other persons " to sit in on Exco meetings . |
| 27 | The Carabinieri patrolman had the raw look of a recruit freshly dug up from one of the no-hope regions of the deep South and put through the human equivalent of a potato-peeling machine . |
| 28 | Hot on his heels were folk duo Tascam , whose rousing medley had the crowd roaring in appreciation . |
| 29 | However , the court decided , following the recent authority of Pappa v Rose ( 1872 ) LR 7 CP 525 , that the average adjuster had the benefit of arbitral immunity . |
| 30 | A selection of pre-1700 books fetched two and a half times its valuation ; a sale of duplicate art portfolios and fine printing had the ‘ big boys ’ from London falling over each other … |