Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may doubt that Beerbohm had the acumen or the catholicity to respond to this provocation as conclusively as he should . |
| 2 | ’ The man gave an address in Manhattan , then the name of his gallery , checking that Kemp had the details right . |
| 3 | Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain . |
| 4 | The European Economic research Consortium has reported that Edinburgh had the best prospects of Britain 's large cities in the 1990's . |
| 5 | John and Joan Waters had hoped that , once they realised that Derek had the support of other members of his family , they would leave him alone . |
| 6 | This Gentile had professed a faith that no Jew had , believing that Jesus had the authority and power to help . |
| 7 | I could n't see it too clearly 'cos it was at the other end of the pitch , but it seemed that Jamie had the ball around the right hand edge of the box and curled it into the top left hand corner . |
| 8 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 9 | Western military sources confirmed that Turkey had the military capability to carry out an air raid on the Bekaa . |
| 10 | It acknowledged that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of , for example , the tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other states . |
| 11 | She , her husband and Byron had been discussing the principal of life and wondered if a living thing could be re-animated before Shelley had the idea of writing a book on this theme . |
| 12 | Refining and Marketing had the best results since 1986 , and Exploration and Production 's results , excluding divestment profits , were at a similar level to 1990 . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I 'm afraid it 's locked and Francis had the key . ’ |
| 14 | Pakistani Foreign Affairs Secretary Shahryar Khan was quoted by the Washington Post of Feb. 7 as saying that Pakistan had the components and expertise to assemble at least one nuclear explosive device . |
| 15 | When it is also remembered that Belorussia had the lowest literacy rate of all European Russia , the sluggish response of the denizens of the Roslavl' area comes as no surprise . |
| 16 | This meant that Virgin had the right to publish his songs , but no rights on Sting himself as a performer : his group , the Police , were signed as recording artists to A&M . |
| 17 | But there was no reply , and when Belinda turned from the front passenger seat to look at the artist stretched out in the back , she saw that Faye had the back of her hand pressed against her mouth to stifle her sobs . |
| 18 | Until the kidnappers knew that Maxwell had the money ready they would n't name a place . |
| 19 | I knew that Bissell had the answers that I really wanted . |
| 20 | They were unanimous in finding that McLaren had the rifle and ammunition without a licence . |
| 21 | and her voice trailed away , as she simultaneously managed to imply that Brian had the Town Hall in the palm of his hand , and that he had enough money to buy his father a comfortable bungalow in a nice suburb whenever he felt like it . |
| 22 | The King rather shrewdly asked whether Baldwin had the support of his colleagues in the House of Lords . |
| 23 | It had barely stopped before Collins had the door open and had bundled then inside . |
| 24 | confirmed that NEC had the matter in hand and would adopt the format required by NVQ . |
| 25 | It said that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other countries . |
| 26 | Here was a new wave of feminist militancy , proclaiming that women had the right to a life of their own and should not be the sexual property of men . |
| 27 | Though there had been some concern as to what the world 's reaction would be , Wilson had smoothed it over with assurances that the world community could n't deny that America had the right to protect the few hundred of its citizens in Haiti , and to defend the various mining and import/export concessions that had been granted to them . |
| 28 | It concluded that Guatemala had the lowest ‘ physical quality of life index in Central America and the third lowest in the whole of Latin America after Haiti and Bolivia ’ . |
| 29 | It had long been suggested that Mayer had the sound technician tamper with the soundtrack of Gilbert 's early talkie His Glorious Night to make him sound risible . |
| 30 | In January Pressler , sponsor of a 1985 law under which the USA had suspended economic and military aid to Pakistan in October 1990 on the grounds that it might have developed nuclear weapons [ see p. 37764 ] , had claimed in January 1992 that Pakistan could manufacture two nuclear weapons [ see p. 38726 ] , anticipating a controversial admission by Pakistan 's Foreign Affairs Secretary , Shahryar Khan , who suggested that Pakistan had the expertise to assemble one nuclear device [ see pp. 38762-63 ] . |