Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currencies had a quiet day , with sterling closing just under half a pfennig lower at Dm2.3835 and a tenth of a cent down at $1.4330 . |
| 2 | Why should we do such a dirty business and stain our name , we who for centuries had an excellent reputation ? ’ |
| 3 | The United Provinces had a Scottish brigade in their service until the last years of the century . |
| 4 | Even in 1984 these provinces had the lowest enrolment levels and female attendance rates , and the highest drop-out rates in the whole country . |
| 5 | Less work has been done with animal models , but recent work from India has shown that some homoeopathic remedies in various potencies displayed anti-viral activity in developing chick embryos , whereas other remedies had no anti-viral effect in mice . |
| 6 | Her movements as she ran down the steps had an overflowing grace of energy . |
| 7 | Despite my soft soles , my steps had an extraordinary echo . |
| 8 | Her brothers had a grand idea , though . |
| 9 | Last summer , successful National Certificate candidates had a new experience when opening the familiar SCOTVEC brown envelope . |
| 10 | The pressure waves had a mean amplitude of 64 ( 37 ) mm Hg in the distal oesophagus ( mean value for 5 , 10 , and 15 cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter , and a duration of 3. ( 1.0 ) seconds . |
| 11 | In emotions that were not her own , waves had a liquid pounding substance to them culled from the beaches of Earth 's Pacific Ocean . |
| 12 | Owners of draught animals had a virtual monopoly oh the transport of grain to the miller , the market , and the local collection-point for the tax in kind . |
| 13 | In an age that was becoming increasingly fascinated with history , the prospect of extending the antiquity of life itself by uncovering the remains of bizarre and often gigantic animals had a romantic appeal outside the realms of science . |
| 14 | When he woke he gazed up at Dot almost as though he knew her , yet she could n't be sure if he really saw her , for his eyes had a distant faraway look like a sailor in the Navy staring across the Pacific seas . |
| 15 | She was more bothered than ever , for Timothy 's eyes had a dreamy look which she 'd never seen in them before , and he 'd lingered over the girl 's name whenever he had used it . |
| 16 | Her eyes had a greenish tinge and her full mouth was compressed with fury . |
| 17 | His eyes had a smouldering look in them , and she felt she was being hypnotised . |
| 18 | The green-grey eyes had a hypnotic quality . |
| 19 | But the look in his eyes had a peculiar effect on me . |
| 20 | Interestingly , although all three cached designs had the same amount of RAM cache , the CIC Sigma produced the best overall performance . |
| 21 | We must allow ourselves time to grieve for the past but the guards had no such time . |
| 22 | Dentists had no financial incentive to extract teeth , he said . |
| 23 | That ground is a grubber kick away from Hong Kong Football Club where the Scottish Survivors had a grand day in the ten-a-side event winning all their three matches against Bucks RFC ( Singapore ) , 45-0 ; Hong Kong Forces , 34-0 ; and Wombats ( Australia ) , 43-0 . |
| 24 | One of the works engine drivers had a traumatic experience when he saw the old tramp pass straight through the train of works wagons as he was moving them . |
| 25 | Because the drivers had a long record of bad behaviour and convictions no such expectation existed here . |
| 26 | The drivers had the hardest job , concentrating on holding their positions and keeping out of the way of the front and rear gunners . |
| 27 | Agricultural pesticides had a devastating effect on numbers during the 50s and early 60s but since certain chemicals have been banned the figure has risen to around 1,050 pairs . |
| 28 | Parliament was an assembly over which the clergy had no theoretical control , however much weight they might wield within it in practice ; convocation was a provincial — not a national assembly , and , though often summoned on the king 's nod , it met by , and laid down , its own procedures and determined its own composition . |
| 29 | The clergy had a financial independence which the laity lacked . |
| 30 | The political situation in Germany before 1914 , in which parties had no direct role in the formation of the Imperial Government , which functioned independently of them , meant that the SPD had no reason to think of its activities mainly in parliamentary terms . |