Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorcas had led the way into the best kitchen , as charming a room as best kitchens used to be in farmhouses which had no parlours — the fire reflected in a bright row of pewter plates and dishes ; the sand-scoured deal tables so clean you longed to stroke them ; the salt-coffer in one chimney corner , and a three-cornered chair in the other , the walls being handsomely tapestried with flitches of bacon , and the ceiling ornamented with pendent hams . |
| 2 | He was wearing a variation of court dress — a coat of midnight blue which had no fastenings but which was secured by a sash of the same colour — which indicated that he had spent the morning in council with the civil servants who were charged with overseeing the administration of some aspect of the government . |
| 3 | In the final stages of the peace-making at Utrecht in 1713 the representatives of the different powers avoided many of the difficulties and delays which had marked earlier such conferences by entering the meeting-place in the town hall pêle-mêle ( i.e. in no particular order ) and then seating themselves at a round table which had no head . |
| 4 | The only other problem was found with the speaker support bracket which had no screw hole or a corresponding hole in the case to fix it to . |
| 5 | I think we were the only house in the village which had no damage whatsoever . ’ |
| 6 | Certainly it was untouched by the Anglican church , which had no truck with the feast of Corpus Christi ( from which its words come ) or the doctrine of transubstantiation , and in any case sanctioned only English-texted music . |
| 7 | Europe , of course , still contained many nations which had no state to express , far less to guarantee , their political existence ; the Poles were the glaring example . |
| 8 | Similarly , the impact of GIST may have been as great in schools which had no contact with the project at all , because of the changing climate of opinion in which girls ' under-achievement in science and technology came to be seen as a serious educational issue . |
| 9 | The meeting , which had no decision-making powers , was attended by over 150 prominent individuals , ranging from political leaders to artists . |
| 10 | In Egypt , which had no marriage laws , such marriages were common . |
| 11 | Having decided that since the CGLI was not really concerned with technician courses , it was inappropriate for it to be the validating body , it seemed hardly logical to give the responsibility to TEC , which had no remit for craft courses . |
| 12 | Those who played more quietly , probably using techniques derived from harpsichord playing , were advised to use a Streicher instrument , which had no check . |
| 13 | After the Carshalton accident in 1907 , the staff were evidently rather reluctant to use these cars on the Sutton route and they spent the rest of their working lives on the Croydon — Mitcham — Tooting section , which had no gradients . |
| 14 | Certainly there were part-time specialists operating in settlements like Palaikastro which had no temple , so it was possible for them to work geographically separate from the temple centres . |
| 15 | He attempted to descend a steep staircase which had no handrail , whilst holding a small child by the hand . |
| 16 | She imagined tiny villages far to the north of England which had no electricity or telegraphs , which believed in lake monsters and King Arthur , and were not so different from northern towns near Canada . |
| 17 | When the IBA banned a programme about RUC brutality , the producers protested by making a copy available to the BBC , which had no hesitation in showing it as part of a news feature about the IBA decision . |
| 18 | There he entered a museum which had no antiquities , and in the course of several years built galleries to house two private collections which he brought to the museum . |
| 19 | It followed that some schools were more competitive and selective academically than others : those which had no fee-payers ( in the pre-1932 sense ) were startlingly similar in character and purpose to the type of post-war grammar school of which , very much later , I became a head . |
| 20 | ‘ We sold one which had no phone . |
| 21 | Of this poem and its cultural milieu , Patrick Wormald has written : ‘ Christianity had been successfully assimilated by a warrior nobility , a nobility which had no intention of abandoning its culture or seriously changing its way of life , but which was willing to throw its traditions , customs , tastes and loyalties into the articulation of the new faith . ’ |
| 22 | Among the Jewish population of these areas there was a section of the opposition which had no intention of submitting to Fascist aggression . |
| 23 | The incredible ruined cities , many more of which still remain to be discovered in the jungle areas , are one fascination , if only to speculate as to how they were built in a civilisation which had no beast of burden bigger than a llama , no wheels , and no cutting edge except stone . |
| 24 | PC Dale Cowey said he examined the vehicle which had no defects other than those caused by the collision . |
| 25 | ‘ It seemed wrong to have somebody mouthing things which had no meaning for us . ’ |
| 26 | Nevertheless on the occasion in question , a double room was provided which had no terrace . |
| 27 | Most of the works , which had no reserves , were bought by private collectors for figures up to 70% below what Lesieutre — stoically present on the front row — had paid for them when the art market was booming . |
| 28 | Raym. 742 in which it was held that indebitatus assumpsit lay for money paid under the sentence of a court which had no jurisdiction . |
| 29 | … They were herded into a ward which had no fan and no proper sanitary facilities … |
| 30 | The Campbell drew out a pistol which had no hint whatsoever of the Airfix factory about it . |