Example sentences of "[noun pl] had one [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The two Frenchmen had one thing in common . |
| 2 | Salomons had one son , who was drowned on active service in the Dardanelles in 1915 , and four daughters . |
| 3 | In determining the level of planned capacity five years ahead , separate estimates had been made by the BEA commercial department ( taking into account national economic trends ) , the engineers ( using simple arithmetical extrapolation of past growth ) , and the Area Boards ( using their local knowledge ) , Their forecasts had one thing in common : they all under-estimated the growth ( the commercial department 's forecasts being least , and the Area Boards ' most , accurate ) . |
| 4 | Almost invariably , barns had one threshing floor , with bays for housing the crops opening off it ( Fig 37 and Plate 1 ) . |
| 5 | A total of 1748 patients had one attack within the three month study period , 24 had two attacks , and three had three attacks , giving a total of 1805 attacks included in the study . |
| 6 | Trolley buses had one man to do it . |
| 7 | Classics had one tutor in each institution , but one institution bought in two others also . |
| 8 | Whatever their differences , the two queens had one quality in common : Mary , like Elizabeth , sensed that the best way to win her subjects ' affection and loyalty was for her to be seen moving among them . |
| 9 | The elections were held in accordance with a law passed on Feb. 20 [ ibid. ] , and voters had one vote for one of the listed parties ( there being no candidates ' names on the voting form ) . |
| 10 | Mitchell ( 1985 ) found that five years after divorce in four-fifths of the 71 families in the study the children had one parent with a new partner and at least one-third had two parents with new partners . |
| 11 | Whatever their other fluctuations , Nietzsche 's latest plans had one thing in common : their lists of topics , however long or diverse , contained no explicit reference to Wagner . |
| 12 | They did not : the Canadians had one sort of sovereign , and the British had another sort . |
| 13 | Once surrender had been agreed to , it was obvious that the Partisans had one object , and that was to secure , as they termed it , the " Booty of War " … within an incredibly short time , certainly less than twenty minutes , the Partisans had all emerged out of the hills and lined the main road for several thousand yards . |
| 14 | By 1985 , Glasgow and Belfast had two mornings and an evening each , and 17 towns had one morning and one evening . |
| 15 | Social services had one person rowing and eight people steering . |