Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tall carriage entrance had a clock with a black face and gilt Roman numerals in its small pediment , the yard paved with small , sunk cobbles with moss between . |
| 2 | The German U-boat offensive had a profound effect on Allied military plans in the second half of 1917 , for the German submarine base at Bruges was within 48km/ 30mls of the Allied front line . |
| 3 | As a result , the very steep crux pitch had a bolt a metre and I became very pumped — more from clipping the bolts than from the climbing ! |
| 4 | Under French rule broadcasting had no pretensions to autonomy and so made a fairly smooth transition from being an arm of French colonialism to being an arm of the new African governments . |
| 5 | The Social Work Department had no information about these four families , and in particular about the nine children taken from them . |
| 6 | Two of the measures enacted by the 1986 Social Security Act had a significant impact on women by reversing the main attempts of the 1975 scheme to begin , albeit very slowly , to adjust state pensions to the economic experiences of women . |
| 7 | She could not help reflecting , as she pushed a magazine into the first letter box , that a world in which Daimler drivers could pay four hundred thousand pounds for a country house while she could not even muster a couple of hundred for Luke 's modest share of an old transit van had a certain imbalance to it . |
| 8 | THE COMMERCIAL EDUCATION TRUST HAD A SUCCESSFUL 1991/92 . |
| 9 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 10 | English keyboard music had a tradition at least as old , was produced at least as copiously , and was later to influence through Sweelinck the German organ school from Samuel Scheidt onward . |
| 11 | For instance , one manager in a public service agency had a subordinate who was not really effective at supervising others and was resistant to suggestions for improvement . |
| 12 | Our finding that only one in 10 asymptomatic patients with know connective tissue disease had a manometric abnormality is at variance with previous studies in patients with scleroderma and mixed connective tissue disease . |
| 13 | For a long time , the public relations industry had a great number of former journalists working on it . |
| 14 | On the one hand , the Daily Mirror story had the important ingredient of television stars and the alleged exploitation of children in their front-page exclusive story , headlined Stars in Child Porn Probe , while on the other hand , more routinely , there are the very brief items in the local newspapers where the local police use the newspaper like a bulletin board to warn the local neighbourhood about a local nuisance who insists upon exposing himself . |
| 15 | Death was final but a severed love affair had the added conspiracy of jealousy , anger and the possibility of future revenge . |
| 16 | And it found that the Daily Star advert had no effect whatsoever on record sales . |
| 17 | Mr Pilkington of the English glass firm had an important meeting in Paris on 15 July 1919 , but he had missed the boat-train and thought he had missed the meeting . |
| 18 | Dulbeco 's modified Eagles ' medium containing 10% fetal calf serum had an advantage in both plating efficiency and growth . |
| 19 | Indeed , the over spill factor had a longer history than a concern with post-coal industrial restructuring , since the plans of the 1940s and early 1950s had assumed stable employment in coal . |
| 20 | And even old MacDiarmid can had a prayer . |
| 21 | First , the limited liability company had a constitution which stipulated an executive board of directors , their relationship to shareholders and the necessary meetings , elections and voting systems . |
| 22 | He did not know whether the Serious Fraud Office had a similar code of conduct — but suggested if not , it should adopt one . |
| 23 | The composite graphite anode had a centre hold packed with paste of yttrium oxide powder mixed with isopropanol . |
| 24 | Unstated was the belief that the American Central Intelligence Agency had a hand in the downfall and death of Lumumba who had appealed to the USSR , and thereby upset the United States and also Britain ( Macmillan wrote ‘ our long-term interests would best be served by … a Congo Government … largely depending on American rather than Russian aid and support ’ ) . |
| 25 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual midnight race had a lucky escape yesterday when their vessel flooded and began to sink three miles from the Isle of Man . |
| 26 | Mercury Global Bond Fund had an initial portfolio of 50% European bonds . |
| 27 | In real life Labour had no chance of winning . |
| 28 | The Liberal Democrat leadership had no mechanism to prevent candidates standing . |
| 29 | In other areas , early peacetime policy had the trappings of a form of economic planning [ Worswick and Ady , 1952 ] . |
| 30 | A woman living with three little girls , the youngest still only a baby , on Coventry 's hard-to-heat Woodend estate had no electric light for eleven months . |