Example sentences of "[noun] had the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a somewhat smaller stand than the Association had the good fortune to occupy in previous years , Hotel olympia proved to be none the less hectic for HCIMA . |
| 2 | The Suffolk side had the perfect start , as the impressive Fry waltzed through the visitors ' defence to settle any early nerves and just six minutes later the title was effectively Tuddenham Road bound . |
| 3 | But the Lancashire side had the added ingredient of grit and some decisive tackling limited Swindon 's chances to two in an hour . |
| 4 | Even in 1984 these provinces had the lowest enrolment levels and female attendance rates , and the highest drop-out rates in the whole country . |
| 5 | He thrust into her ripe fig , obviously believing that his penis had the magic power to make her his slave forever . |
| 6 | But Adams had the final word with a last-minute try . |
| 7 | But former Blueman David McCallan had the last laugh on Linfield with a brilliant winner four minutes from time to put Bangor into the Bass Irish Cup semi-finals for the first time in 25 years . |
| 8 | However , the more difficult question is whether the defendant had the necessary animus possidendi . |
| 9 | Meredith had the distinct impression that a hint of triumph had flashed in Lucenzo 's eyes . |
| 10 | Lucenzo let out a warning stream of Italian , and Meredith had the distinct impression that he was telling Benito not to speak to her . |
| 11 | Yet when he lowered his arm Meredith had the odd sensation that she 'd lost . |
| 12 | Hari stared around the silent building , there was no-one about , the silence hung heavily over the rows of seats , the stage was hidden by a thick curtain and yet Hari had the eerie sensation that she was being watched . |
| 13 | Interestingly , although all three cached designs had the same amount of RAM cache , the CIC Sigma produced the best overall performance . |
| 14 | But the old soldier had the last laugh . |
| 15 | The car had the usual teething problems and was not the equal of either the Lotus or the Ferrari , and Jackie 's only victory of the year was at Barcelona . |
| 16 | The drivers had the hardest job , concentrating on holding their positions and keeping out of the way of the front and rear gunners . |
| 17 | In all my time here I ‘ ve had the final say on the many , many , decisions which concerned playing matters . |
| 18 | All four informants confirmed that the United States had the Iranian Embassy in Beirut under electronic surveillance prior to the disaster . |
| 19 | Now Kennedy had a dilemma although Cuba was in the Caribbean , and although the United States had the biggest navy in the world , and the biggest airforce and was easily able to exterminate Cuba if it wa if it wished to , it was vulnerable , however , in other areas , in particular it was vulnerable in Berlin and it was vulnerable in Indo-China . |
| 20 | Now Kennedy had a dilemma although Cuba was in the Caribbean , and although the United States had the biggest navy in the world , and the biggest airforce and was easily able to exterminate Cuba if it wa if it wished to , it was vulnerable , however , in other areas , in particular it was vulnerable in Berlin and it was vulnerable in Indo-China . |
| 21 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Adjustment for birth weight had the greatest effect on the perinatal mortality rates due to immaturity : the rate among women who were booked at general practitioner units and were delivered at hospital 1 fell from 3.6 to 1.0 . |
| 24 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 25 | Uganda had the highest incidence of AIDS cases proportional to its population . |
| 26 | Travis had the same idea , for he moved away from her to remove the last of his clothes before turning to her again , his body moving over her , his legs gliding between hers so there was scarcely an inch of their two bodies that was not touching , and she was made vitally aware of his arousal . |
| 27 | He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition : |
| 28 | New College was an arsenal , Magdalen College had the heavy ordnance , which was clattering through the streets drawn by horses , whenever it was brought in . |
| 29 | Anticipating an element of competitiveness , Aldercine had the central area marked out with sticky tape and traffic cones in readiness for a series of games . |
| 30 | Jeffrey — who was watched by most of his sevens charges — spent some of the tie on the wing , but there was a customary rumbustious downing of Cassell , and the scriptwriters had the perfect finale as he notched the Scots ’ sole try , courtesy of a pass from his ‘ not so old ’ back-row pal , Finlay Calder . |