Example sentences of "[pron] had [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once I began to put together my chain of companies , I had certain responsibilities to the people I employed , ’ Julius said in the same curt tone . |
| 2 | And it meant that I had free access to the whole of the so much so , I had a key to the bottom of entry in er access to the firm and I could get in when I liked . |
| 3 | I had special permission to be in the gallery . |
| 4 | Among the names on the list was that of a former Finance Ministry official and that of Soka Gakkai , a lay Buddhist group which had close links to Komeito . |
| 5 | Originally , she had sole claim to it but now everyone can buy this classic scent . |
| 6 | She had early ambitions to be a marine biologist , and always claimed that lack of formal educational opportunity prevented her . |
| 7 | She had easy access to the girl inside her . |
| 8 | In the first place she had always consistently opposed fashion shows for her company ; she did not approve of professional models wearing ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes since they were not representative of her real customers ; furthermore , she had moral objections to catwalk cavortings as being sexually provocative ; ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes were not designed with sexual provocation in mind . |
| 9 | Later on she had good reason to be thankful that she was . |
| 10 | " She counted for a great deal in the palace " in the sense that she had privileged access to Louis and thus could be a helpful patron . |
| 11 | She had severe bruises to the face and eyes and her head was wrapped in a towel . |
| 12 | So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E . |
| 13 | He said he had received five calls from angry parents or grandparents who had similar problems to the child portrayed on television . |
| 14 | Actually , it just happened because I found I was engaging with people who had similar interests to myself . |
| 15 | In addition , two 18th century heirs who had legitimate claims to the throne , but are now known as the Old and Young Pretenders , were both of the House of Stewart . |
| 16 | People living in the houses were also less likely to be in the company of individuals who had competing needs to their own ; clients living in staffed houses were likely to be the only service user in the room for 63 per cent of the time ( and mostly with just one other for the remainder ) , compared with 42 per cent in the three ‘ campus ’ houses , 33 per cent in ordinary hospital wards and 27 per cent in special units . |
| 17 | Before the Second World War , virtually the only people able to practise archaeology on a full-time basis were those employed in museums , or the few who had sufficient wealth to be self-financing . |
| 18 | Trying to find out who had direct access to the cakes had proved nothing . |
| 19 | If you had complete access to the human body could you cut one out and examine it ? |
| 20 | Yes I did have a refriger I had , we bought a refrigerator and er a cooker and it sat in that recess there , that was our big buy when we first came , er we had a bedroom suite when we came here and we had sufficient furniture to , to erm furnish the sitting room and we had er a suite of furniture in here erm |
| 21 | A concentrated assessment helped us focus on teaching procedures and materials more effectively and the problems we uncovered could be tackled immediately as we had direct access to the Subject Assessor ’ . |
| 22 | After 1950 the newer electronics offerings appeared in double form — they had close ties to defence and public service , but they also appeared in Europe as forceful standard-bearers for the free market approach . |
| 23 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |
| 24 | They had serious injuries to their legs and the survivor Mark Southall had one amputated . |
| 25 | They had free access to standard rat food pellets ( EWOS , Sweden ) and tap water . |
| 26 | They had unlimited access to company cheques and used £109,561 to set up their own property firm . |
| 27 | Unlike all other cars in the South Metropolitan 's own fleet , they had double-opening doors to the saloon , with a concealed chain over the top so that the two always opened and closed together . |
| 28 | The Late Pleistocene humans in the Philippines seem to have lived in the savannas , so that the pre-historic Negritos probably did not move into the forest until they had seasonal access to cultivated starchy food unavailable in the forest itself and they evolved a lifestyle to collect forest produce for trade . |
| 29 | Oil Mill was particularly well placed for transport , for it had easy access to the road , canal and railway , a special branch line running from the latter across a substantial iron bridge to the rear of the mill , allowing direct loading and unloading . |
| 30 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |