Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intervention by national and local government to reduce environmental risks had dramatic effects on urban death-rates . |
| 2 | The Club claimed that this was because the premises were licensed but fans had other interpretations . |
| 3 | While a lack of entry qualifications did not rank as the most important reason overall for not doing a course , the 14% who did need entry qualifications may suggest that some of the non-enrollers had insufficient information about the courses they were applying to and , consequently , applied to courses for which they had insufficient entry qualifications . |
| 4 | The technique during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had four stages . |
| 5 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 6 | Marie , still in her pyjamas , was sitting slumped at the table that took up most of the floor space : you had to squeeze round it to move about at all in the tiny kitchen , and Marie 's legs had permanent bruises from its sharp comers . |
| 7 | His work as the pioneer of fingerprinting was later built upon by Sir Francis Galton and Sir Edward Henry [ qq.v. ] , whose methodical and systematic methods had practical applications for the detection of criminals . |
| 8 | The shroud was beginning to adopt a couture of its own , with distinct styles for boys and girls , men and women ; those for males were sans bows whilst the female styles had less panel ruching on the torso and a high-neck frill . |
| 9 | What is significant is that the signals had consistent characteristics , and we observed no other kinds of strong echoes in midwater . |
| 10 | Hens had horrible faces close to . |
| 11 | On the whole the writing of the 1880s did demand change and assumed that the privileged readers had such change within their power . |
| 12 | Gittell ( 1980 ) , in a research study of school-related citizen organizations in three American cities , finds that both lower- and middle-class parent organizations had little effect on educational decision-making , their declared goal . |
| 13 | We married them to make a strong peace ; their brothers had some women from us . ’ |
| 14 | By the 1840s , the Smith brothers had 60 employees , many of them females , working 10 hours per day and 6 days per week . |
| 15 | Most have been inaccessible to historians , because few record offices had adequate indexes . |
| 16 | The Far Eastern bank interviewed took an entirely different line ; they always worked with the large international firms , claiming that neither they nor candidates had any confidence in the smaller firms . |
| 17 | Indeed , when Franco was made head of government in September 1936 , it was as much because all the other candidates had important flaws as in recognition of his merits . |
| 18 | The waves had white caps now and they seemed to effervesce as they swept by . |
| 19 | About 70 million years ago the brain of the most advanced animals had cerebral hemispheres , but they composed a third or less of the whole brain . |
| 20 | Later animals had deeper cups filled with many light-sensitive cells , until gradually more complex true eyes evolved , and made eye-spots redundant . |
| 21 | Both animals had huge shrapnel wounds on their hindquarters . |
| 22 | This , said McNeill Alexander , is surprising in view of the fact that some of these animals had hind legs some three metres long . |
| 23 | These mercury compounds had ghastly effects on the human nervous system , causing convulsions , blindness , and death . |
| 24 | It was n't just that copies of knitting patterns in a popular British magazine were regarded as subersive , or even that the border guards had strict rules about the permitted length of visitors ' hair . |
| 25 | There was one very large unit of 120 sows , taking 1,100 pigs through to finishing ; the other units had 10–20 breeding sows and 180–400 fattening pigs . |
| 26 | He said 13 of the survivors had severe burns , but many others were suffering from shock . |
| 27 | Ski equipment importers had big stocks of last year 's skis and boots still on their hands and ski shops were desperately running sales and searching for other sports to make up for the fact that no one was buying skigear . |
| 28 | Vetinary surgeon Michael Dyas told the court the cocks had multiple injuries . |
| 29 | Owen believes , for example , that lepidopteran populations fluctuate so widely due to entirely natural causes that the use of pesticides had little effect on them — although it does affect ground predators . |
| 30 | But the clergy had specific rights that were denied to lay people , even if influential landowners . |