Example sentences of "[noun pl] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact everything about him was shiny ; his hair , face , clothes , briefcase , shoes , fingernails , even his ears had a shine to them . |
| 2 | His methods had an appeal among the wealthy , professional classes who made up the congregation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And I remember the days when readers had a bit more respect for us hard-working mortals ! |
| 5 | After the war , the brothers had a row and split ( good soap opera plot , this ) and Adi formed Adidas and their kid formed Puma . |
| 6 | The brothers had a wood business , buying old trees from the various farmers , cutting them into logs and selling them around the locality . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Birch brothers had an office at 3 Cannon Row , Westminster , from 1845 to 1856 , and at 43 Parliament Street from 1858 to 1864 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Those dark eyes had a way of burning into her . |
| 14 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 15 | But despite his disability his eyes had a twinkle and Wycliffe felt that he was in the presence of a truly contented man . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The others had gone willingly , but the drivers had a feeling of resentment from the start ; army pay was less than their civilian earnings . |
| 18 | In 1981 , however , sports car drivers had a World Championship for the first time , when the championship was again renamed the World Endurance Championship and from 1982 the championship was for the new Group C cars . |
| 19 | Only the Wesleyans had a system whereby the national organization had any control and even they had problems . |
| 20 | MY friends and I were discussing whether we would find it more acceptable if our husbands had an affair based on lust , rather than love . |
| 21 | Whatever date one ascribes to the letter , Remigius conceived of Childeric 's power in terms of Roman provincial rule , and he also thought that the clergy had a right to advise , even though the ruler might be barbarian and pagan . |
| 22 | The opposition parties had a PV of 51.1 , higher than Fianna Fail 's at 45.7 ; but Fianna Fail 's PS was 51.7 , again a majority . |
| 23 | " We lived a very spartan life , " says Eva , " but I ca n't ever remember thinking other kids had a lot , and we had n't . |
| 24 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 25 | If all computers had a modem , and only around 15% do , which the software could communicate with then on-screen dialling would be a viable proposition and the office telephone list might join the notebook and calculator . |
| 26 | A number of early computers had an instruction to extract a square root , but nowadays this operation is achieved by software . |
| 27 | It would be absurd if , following the Hayes and Garvin criticism of DCF , companies were to drop it and then assume that funds had a zero cost . |
| 28 | The trains were designed to accommodate patients in the central vehicles , those at either end were for the convenience of the staff , stores , etc. , and in the military trains , the ward or hospital cars had a pharmacy car in the centre . |
| 29 | As much as 85 per cent of cars had a radio , and over half were used whenever the car was driven . |
| 30 | Well as I say , the police stopped them the other morning and one of the lads had a chat with the driver and all this and he carried on . |