Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two workshops there considered the CCAUK 's case for ‘ pro rata to instalments ’ , and the point was well taken , especially where debtors had a mixture of short and long-term debt and/or weekly and monthly instalments . |
| 2 | From this it followed , among other things , that molecules had a shape in three-dimensional space , and the brilliant German chemist Kekule ( 1829–96 ) , in the very Victorian situation of a passenger sitting on top of a London bus in 1865 , imagined the first of the complex structural molecular models , the famous benzene ring of six carbon atoms to each of which a hydrogen atom was attached . |
| 3 | It did , however , provide that the Agency , through investigation , could help to ensure that employers promoted equality of opportunity in employment but it did not provide that employers had a duty themselves to promote equality of opportunity in employment . |
| 4 | It would be absurd if , following the Hayes and Garvin criticism of DCF , companies were to drop it and then assume that funds had a zero cost . |
| 5 | In conclusion , Mr Angus pointed out that trusts had a life after the next dividend declaration . |
| 6 | They noted that asylums had a tendency to provide employment on farms and in workshops for the most competent and socially organized patients and there were some remarkably successful asylum farming ventures ; for example , in the early twentieth century Cane Hill Hospital became famous for its herd of pedigree pigs . |
| 7 | Lady Wilcox claimed that there was widespread agreement that lenders had a responsibility to assist the minority of people who became ‘ debt casualties ’ , by helping to fund money advice . |
| 8 | It was the first appeal court ruling that relatives had a right to claim compensation over damage to a foetus which later caused the child 's death . |
| 9 | A general election was held in May 1987 , in which all candidates were required to be members of the Malawi Congress Party , although voters had a choice of candidate in 69 constituencies . |
| 10 | For gradually over thousands of years , the Mother Goddess who gave birth to all things had lost her power as people realized that men had a role in procreation . |
| 11 | Now , much of what they were saying — particularly their insistence that women had a right to control their bodies and therefore a right to family planning — was welcomed by all sides of the population industry . |
| 12 | Visits of inspection to the cookhouses and latrines had a squalor about them that scarcely repaid even average keeness . |
| 13 | Symptoms and signs had a sensitivity and specificity of upper gastrointestinal disease of 50% and 83% respectively , and 44% and 80% for colonic disease . |
| 14 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 15 | Both students and parents had a go at this . |
| 16 | He was fine-featured and his dress and movements had a fastidiousness that made Ludo 's appearance seem almost earthy . |
| 17 | Hopes and dreams had a way of evaporating . |
| 18 | Before colorectal perfusion studies , the patients and controls had a bowel preparation as for flexible rectosigmoidoscopy , that is — diet restriction and oral purgative the day before and a non-irritative enema two hours before perfusion . |
| 19 | Carers ranked hospitalization as more important than other groups , and advocates had a rank ordering of issues which differed from the other groups , including clients . |
| 20 | Normally , the ratio was roughly equivalent to one post for every seven MPs ; in coalition , Liberals were appointed on a ratio close to that norm , but Unionists had a proportion of jobs to MPs more like one to twelve or fifteen . |
| 21 | He said this was not a change in policy , because peacekeepers had a duty to see that no harm came to civilians . |
| 22 | Draught animals , though frequently more valuable , were stolen less often partly because they were more closely looked after , and partly because carters had a reputation as a violent class of men . |