Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All five patients receiving oral cyclosporin had a remission but relapse occurred within three months of discontinuing the drug .
2 We have seen that perhaps the growing and adolescent dinosaur had a metabolism that actually converted from some form of endothermy to homeothermic or heterothermic metabolism .
3 That bike had a twenty-eight-inch frame .
4 Yeah but each seat ooh excuse me each seat had a microphone built into the desk .
5 Each club had a GRIMOIRE and where in every member would write his name as to show love of Evil and to show kinship with others of Evil .
6 It is clear that each Command had a basis for judging tour length ; for example , Bomber Command seemed to feature the number of sorties to establish this .
7 Studies in France and other countries had revealed the extent to which forests were being cut down and showed that deforestation had a range of harmful consequences .
8 Bob Hoover 's well-known P-51D Mustang Old Yeller had a reserve of $1m and only reached $500,000 in the bidding .
9 In this case , this stage had a mean number of er calves per year , about two , whereas this hind had a number just under one , which is about right .
10 Fewer than than one in ten people in the British study had a flashbulb memory of what they were doing on the day of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster , according to the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council .
11 He had calculated , however , that he would need to give three poetry readings in order to cover his expenses on this visit : he did only the amount that was strictly necessary , since the Inland Revenue had a habit of taking much of any extra income he earned .
12 The Old Testament had a lot to say about God administering fire .
13 At Skelwith Fold , THE OLD MANOR had a gallery over the front door , which was north-facing , and again , the woodwork is preserved within the house .
14 ‘ Only because the French were obliging enough to do a lot of your fighting for you , ’ said Dr Neil , who as an old soldier had a grasp of military history .
15 By this time , the British Committee had a boxroom office in Prague run by Quaker ladies and other volunteers from the British community .
16 The old bar had a taste of a different kind of publicity in the Sixties , which fans of singer Marianne Faithfull will recall .
17 However , this could halve the workforce and on one farm in Wales a young couple with a 10-months old child had a workload of 923 s.m.d. which demanded very full participation by the wife .
18 But it was not just any dragon : this dragon had a man 's face ; the thin , sallow face of a Hung Mao , the eyes intensely blue , the mouth thin-lipped and almost sneering .
19 Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well .
20 Well , I think the old boy had a point .
21 Well they had to get their own machines out an there 's one old boy had a stitcher , a be he looked ninety , he probably was n't , and er he was chu , it was just after lunch and he was chewing apple and old Jo , I was working with so you know , Jim someone 's I said look at the silly old B , I said !
22 The newly designated community had a population of 80,000,000 .
23 It was probably for this reason that the parish registers were not fully established until the reign of Elizabeth I , the fear of taxation and also that the clergy of this period had a dislike of statistics and generally met the injunction by a policy of passive resistance .
24 Typically , this ware had a pattern burnish on a red , grey or light brown surface , and it was applied to goblets with tall narrow stems or conical pedestal bases .
25 By the mid-1670s Peyton had become the leader of a republican group , ‘ Peyton 's Gang ’ , and it has been argued that this group had a hand in the murder of the JP Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [ q.v. ] in 1678 , which provoked widespread belief in the bogus ‘ Popish Plot ’ .
26 Has my right hon. Friend had a chance yet to read the excellent report submitted to him by the chief constable of Northumbria about the problem of constant reoffending on bail ?
27 Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to reflect on the excellent report produced by Professor Glennerster and published by the King 's Fund , which shows that fund-holding practices are more effective and efficient in delivering health care to patients , and that they use their resources much better ?
28 Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to study the statement by the Bundesbank that Germany is now in recession and that it blames the fall in output in Germany on the world recession ?
29 Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to look at the Order Paper recently ?
30 Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to read early-day motion 316 , which stands in my name and is supported by about 40 right hon. and hon. Members ?
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