Example sentences of "[art] [det] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The newcomer was ostentatiously dressed in robes slashed with yellow taffeta and bound by a gold cord very similar to one used by Benstede , although the latter had a row of knots in his to prevent it slipping down over the loops on his gown .
2 Mandeville and Santerre soon returned from the trees ; the latter had a crossbow in his hand , Bowyer 's corpse sprawled across the saddle bow .
3 The latter had a connection , in the 16th century , with a Dursley clothier .
4 I think that the two variants which struck the popular fancy in my little book were royalty and red hair — the former is always a safe card to play , and its combination with the latter had a touch of novelty …
5 However , the latter have a part to play from the period of nursery rhymes and finger and other basic-activity games .
6 The latter have a scope suitable to the question in hand .
7 ( One wonders how much the latter has a bearing on the former , notwithstanding the fact that Riley herself is adamant that being female has not been an issue in her career ) .
8 The latter has a lyric set round an argument which Bob not so much gives in to , but agrees to differ on …
9 The latter has a colour display .
10 The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing .
11 As the former had a habit of overflowing at times when carelessly topped up it was not long before the bridge deck , lower deck and surrounding fittings were stained a delicate shade of blue .
12 ‘ In order to achieve this , measures must be developed that can be applied at particular neuralgic points only and that will all the same have a traffic restraining effect on the whole area .
13 Of the many species of Dictyonema only a few have a colony as regular in shape as this one , which can grow to a length of more than 20 cm .
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