Example sentences of "[num ord] have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The second had a cap which was sewn with emeralds ; the third bore a pair of the high-heeled boots which great ladies wore to walk about the city ; and behind them , their faces solemn with barely suppressed mirth , came three women , a high-collared cloak folded lengthwise between them . |
2 | The Three- Ninetieth had a reputation on the record that enemy fighters never forced you to turn back and that 's some special form of courage . |
3 | Edward , hoping to slink past unnoticed , was pounced upon and told to hurry to his classroom , where the Lower Fourth had an exhibition with a literary theme . |
4 | The first has the advantage that no time is wasted in finding a first feasible solution . |
5 | The first has the advantage of producing particularly strong contrast , but at the cost of a sometimes inconveniently large density increase . |
6 | Of these two approaches , the first has the virtue of identifying differences of ideology which were unquestionably important to some members of each right-wing party and were later to influence the internal politics of the Franco regime . |
7 | The first has the effect of moving the cusp towards the back edge of the catastrophe surface . |
8 | Do not try laying dry sand below the floor boards , without first having the floor inspected for strength and suitability . |
9 | His public buildings — North Leith Church ( 1814 ) , the Merchant Maiden Hospital in Edinburgh and the Custom House , Greenock ( both 1816 ) , the Edinburgh Academy ( 1822 ) and John Watson 's Hospital ( not the National Gallery of Modern Art ) Edinburgh ( 1828 ) — may now seem more remarkable for their correctness of proportion and detail than for any great originality , the first having an Ilissus portico adapted from Smirke 's Armley Hall , Leeds , and the four last all being variations of the theme of Smirke 's Covent Garden . |
10 | The amount of HIV-1 testing , the proportion found infected when first having an HIV-1 test , and the numbers of HIV-1 infections diagnosed among homosexual/bisexual men between 1985 and 1989 , are a poor guide to the underlying incidence of HIV-1 infections and should not be used to interpret the AIDS incidence curve directly . |
11 | Ifan Tegeryn , four-month-old son of farmer Owen Arfon Jones , 29 , and his wife , Anwen , of 300-acre Bronmiod farm at Llanaelhaearn , near Pwllheli , was the first to have a tree planted in his honour . |
12 | And that was Stronsay there were about the first to have a diamond jubilee . |
13 | To analyse the main determinants of aggregates like this , it is necessary first to have an understanding of the behaviour of the individual economic agents . |
14 | As one lecturer put it , ‘ I do n't want one of my students working for a first to have the achievement marred because it was ‘ only a 1.2 ’ . ’ |
15 | Yet women , of my generation were the first to have the chance to refuse burdens that just could n't be borne , to understand that it was possible to refuse them without censure , to realise that if you still could n't have everything , you could at least make some choices about what you could have . |
16 | I first had a painting included in the Summer Exhibition 40 years ago . |
17 | STEVEN Richard was 11 when he first had a girlfriend . |
18 | Her current job is marketing controller for South East sales region , but when she left University she at first had no idea what she wanted to do . |
19 | This was much more than I expected when I first had the idea in 1982 of writing a popular book about the universe . |
20 | ‘ I was doubtful when I first had the idea , but Margaret has no cousins or … ’ |
21 | When he first had the idea for the programme , Frank Spencer was not even the main character . |
22 | I first had the idea for the Dawn Craggs Meningitis Appeal when my wife , Ena , was in Darlington Memorial Hospital with cancer . |
23 | Five years ago , when I first had the notion of a show based on Joyce 's work , I mentioned it to Clive James , who knew her personally . |
24 | " He 's been shaking like this ever since he was sixteen years old , " the Keraing told us , " when he first had the experience which made him take up the profession . |
25 | From Whistler also , we first had the story of the wombat , bought at Jamrack 's by Rossetti for the sake of its name . |
26 | The subject has fascinated me since I first had the privilege of being led into it as a postgraduate student of Professor J. C. Smith in the mid 1960s . |
27 | Well from when you first had the operation and you was frightened keep bumping into you , and it 's , I mean that 's taken an awful lot of confidence away and you still got |
28 | oh we might have a oh we did at first , when we first had the record player years ago did n't we ? |
29 | So around a fifth had no policy about amniocentesis , although in all cases , tests were available on request . |
30 | Under part 1 of the 1980 Act , local authorities first have a duty to promote the welfare of children by making available such advice , guidance and assistance as may diminish the need to receive children into care . |