Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and had the " in BNC.

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1 When Christine Osborne travelled 4,348 kilometers across Australia on the Indian-Pacific she met some down-to-earth characters and had the opportunity to see some of the country 's most remote mining centres .
2 At the end of the war the last battle was fought here , Charles the second came with a scottish army and had the final battle with Oliver Cromwell .
3 When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned .
4 There remains the very real problem of what is to happen if it appears that Professor B. or some other suitably qualified practitioner was willing , should the need arise , to subject J. to mechanical ventilation and had the facilities for doing so .
5 A 24-hour general strike in protest against the government 's economic policy was called on Nov. 7 by two principal unions and had the support of the opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( Pasok ) .
6 The members of the Council were drawn from the national governments and had the task of counterbalancing the High Authority 's supranationalism .
7 Inge stayed with the Robins family in Falmouth in a large house and had the benefits of a private tutor but she was homesick for Vienna .
8 It was the concept of parole , originally at the discretion of the Home Secretary , but amended in the course of the passage of the legislation through Parliament so that he could grant early release on licence to a prisoner only if advised to do so by a statutory Parole Board , that commanded the keenest interest of penal reformers and had the most extensive effects .
9 Michael Feist Countryside special sites could be in open countryside away from Government policies concerning sustainability , I wonder how Professor Lock would see the situation emerging whereby a local authority has allocated a certain amount of land in its local plan for development for industrial or commercial purposes , it 's tried to erm identify a broad range of criteria but it also identified special sites erm which will only be released in exceptional circumstances , that happened to be an open countryside and had the advantages that it may be a little close to the A one or somewhere similar .
10 They wore expensive suits and had the general air of men who 'd found the secret key to the money pump and were cranking its handle for all they were worth .
11 It was introduced by Ottaviani , who again stressed that the document before the fathers had been prepared by learned theologians and had the pope 's approval .
12 He wore a formal suit and had the pressured air of someone who had been side-tracked from an important engagement .
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