Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An article in Izvestiya of Nov. 2 , however , noted that according to the 1991 Russian Federation law on the rehabilitation of repressed peoples , deported peoples had the right to the land on which they had lived before their deportation . |
| 2 | Although the earlier calculation of the value of the SDR in terms of a basket of sixteen currencies had the advantage of making it more stable in value than individual currencies , it had nevertheless certain shortcomings . |
| 3 | In fact everything about him was shiny ; his hair , face , clothes , briefcase , shoes , fingernails , even his ears had a shine to them . |
| 4 | HUNDREDS of James Bond fans had the wool well and truly pulled over their eyes yesterday . |
| 5 | And the Lib Dems had the glory in Gloucestershire , almost taking the Council . |
| 6 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 7 | When a title of a book was given there was discussion about it ; book lists had a paragraph about each book saying who thought what about it . |
| 8 | And I remember the days when readers had a bit more respect for us hard-working mortals ! |
| 9 | His touch , trained to an instrument with a check , would have been quite inappropriate on an instrument made by Nannette Streicher : in 1801 , her pianos had no checks . |
| 10 | After the war , the brothers had a row and split ( good soap opera plot , this ) and Adi formed Adidas and their kid formed Puma . |
| 11 | The brothers had a wood business , buying old trees from the various farmers , cutting them into logs and selling them around the locality . |
| 12 | The Redpath brothers had a field day , sharing five of the six tries and a contribution to Melrose now and in the future could hold the vital key to unlock even more championship trophies . |
| 13 | If the order is to be disrupted it is because one of the younger sons shows remarkable promise but being a ‘ family ’ anxious to demonstrate tolerance , envy and jealousy are masked and can certainly be dissipated if it is suggested that the elder brothers had a hand in the development . |
| 14 | The Birch brothers had an office at 3 Cannon Row , Westminster , from 1845 to 1856 , and at 43 Parliament Street from 1858 to 1864 . |
| 15 | Editorial offices had the right of complete economic and financial autonomy . |
| 16 | The reduction in the number of candidates had a side effect in that no count in 1975 went beyond 12 stages whereas in 1973 two counts reached 18 stages . |
| 17 | Unfortunately for the peace of mind of the duke , both of the new candidates had the support of influential lairds to whom Montrose was himself obliged . |
| 18 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 19 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 20 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 21 | Her cheekbones were like plums under the fabric of her face and her closed eyes had a crescent of natural shade where lid met lid . |
| 22 | Those dark eyes had a way of burning into her . |
| 23 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 24 | But despite his disability his eyes had a twinkle and Wycliffe felt that he was in the presence of a truly contented man . |
| 25 | Her eyes had no pupils and were a luminous green . |
| 26 | Leibniz would have been little more than an impressionable fool in Kant 's eyes had the caterpillar that he treated with such consideration been a mere thing . |
| 27 | In the glow from the marina lights his eyes had the sheen of hard blue steel . |
| 28 | Muslims , Christians and low-caste Tamils had no compunctions about eating beef . |
| 29 | A key clause defined freedom of information : journalists had the right to demand information ( including access to documents ) from state bodies , social organizations and officials , and to appeal to higher bodies or officials and ultimately to the courts if their demands were refused . |
| 30 | These expressed hostility to Britain 's pre-eminent position , the demand for greater democracy in the country , and a widely held belief that the Hashemites had an understanding with Israel not to attempt to recapture any of Israeli Palestine but to punish severely any Palestinian who violated the Armistice Line . |