Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | The technique during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had four stages . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What is significant is that the signals had consistent characteristics , and we observed no other kinds of strong echoes in midwater . |
| 7 | Hens had horrible faces close to . |
| 8 | We married them to make a strong peace ; their brothers had some women from us . ’ |
| 9 | By the 1840s , the Smith brothers had 60 employees , many of them females , working 10 hours per day and 6 days per week . |
| 10 | Most have been inaccessible to historians , because few record offices had adequate indexes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The waves had white caps now and they seemed to effervesce as they swept by . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Later animals had deeper cups filled with many light-sensitive cells , until gradually more complex true eyes evolved , and made eye-spots redundant . |
| 15 | This , said McNeill Alexander , is surprising in view of the fact that some of these animals had hind legs some three metres long . |
| 16 | These mercury compounds had ghastly effects on the human nervous system , causing convulsions , blindness , and death . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He said 13 of the survivors had severe burns , but many others were suffering from shock . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Vetinary surgeon Michael Dyas told the court the cocks had multiple injuries . |
| 21 | But the clergy had specific rights that were denied to lay people , even if influential landowners . |
| 22 | In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant . |
| 23 | The new arrangements standardise old ministerial practices pre-dating the creation of the CSO , when individual ministries had differing procedures for distributing any statistics for which they were responsible . |
| 24 | But it illustrated that Christians and pagans had similar views of each other . |
| 25 | After submitting a sample of their photographic work , finalists had 30 minutes to recreate that look in front of a live audience at the show . |
| 26 | The five finalists had three hours to produce their creations for a jury of 12 gastronomic chroniclers ( as French food-writers entitle themselves ) and ‘ mères ’ . |
| 27 | This meant that these parties had equivalent subsidies from the Bundestag ( for staffing , etc. ) , but only restricted procedural rights , as compared with larger party groups . |
| 28 | Together the four parties had 191 seats , a working majority of 11 . |
| 29 | She did not want to go to the beach because the beach meant the bikini , and spending all afternoon sucking in her gut and wondering why her skin went straight from fishbelly white to lobster red while all the other kids had golden tans . |
| 30 | Hertfordshire County Council has revealed that primary schools with the greatest additional funds had fourteen times the extra amounts available to the poorest schools . |