Example sentences of "[noun pl] had this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ninety-two per cent of those in old people 's homes compared with 82 per cent of those in other sorts of homes had this amenity — a difference which fell short of statistical significance — but more of those in old people 's homes had a room of their own , two-thirds against half . |
| 2 | none of Britain 's filmmaking companies had this level of entrepreneurial energy . |
| 3 | In the past , only the universities had this power , leaving polytechnics and colleges to award their degrees via the almost defunct Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) . |
| 4 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 5 | However , Strawson goes on to suggest that the transformation in our attitudes which would be needed if we ever came to believe that all our actions had this character is beyond our capacities . |
| 6 | v. McAlpine , where vibrations from pile-driving caused structural damage to a large hotel on adjoining land , Astbury J. held it to be a bad plea that the vibrations had this effect only because the hotel was so old as to be abnormally unstable ; but he found also that the evidence did not establish that it was in such a condition . |
| 7 | Five past pupils had this year obtained first-class Honours degrees , an achievement performed only once before , in 1950 . |
| 8 | Fontana et al showed that in the first three years of life 97% of helthy children had at least one vowel movement every other day and after the third year , 95% of the children had this pattern . |
| 9 | The children had this sort of , red gorgeous colour hair oh , you know with the Chinese faces , |
| 10 | The National Union of Mineworkers says it had expected the news but Trevor of the pit deputies ' union NACODS had this message for miners . |