Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newspaper accounts of the latest national round of university funding had welcome news for Bristol . |
| 2 | Oslo : The government 's 1990 budget proposals had little effect , with the index slipping 2.39 to 515.81 in moderate trade . |
| 3 | These mercury compounds had ghastly effects on the human nervous system , causing convulsions , blindness , and death . |
| 4 | Prior to the election Labour had twenty-eight seats and the Alliance twenty , now it stood at thirty-six and twenty-four respectively , and after the by-elections subsequent to the election of aldermen , forty and twenty-four . |
| 5 | And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language . |
| 6 | No prior drug therapy had that effect and neither had any previous course of ECT . |
| 7 | Obviously the way it tumbled — nay , cascaded — down on to the Gyggle chest had close associations with those prophetic beards that lingered in my memory from many hours of tilted observation in cathedrals and museums , yet something about the beard 's rigidity , its apparent inflexibility , said Assyria , Sumeria . |
| 8 | When it came to football Bert had one thing on his mind , pigeons . |
| 9 | The Roof Gardens had some claim to being a London landmark . |
| 10 | Thus , we do not think that protein deprivation had any effect on CD4 counts . |
| 11 | Altogether the Grand Trunk Canal had five tunnels and seventy-six locks on its ninetythree mile course from the Mersey to Shardlow , near which it entered the Trent . |
| 12 | Nancy Tait attacked Professor McDonald 's stature as an independent witness , dismissing his statement that there was no risk to the Quebec community even where there were mountains of asbestos waste by citing a new state investigation that found almost 60 per cent of asbestos industry workers had abnormal X-rays . |
| 13 | The sitting room had shabby chintz furniture , and faded curtains in the long window alcove . |
| 14 | The gravel sweep had more sand than gravel on it and the places which vehicles did not pass over were weedy . |
| 15 | In the Asquith coalition Unionists had eight cabinet posts and Liberals thirteen , although there were far more Unionists in the Commons . |
| 16 | This meant that programme managers had little incentive to adapt their expenditures in response to increasing relative costs , except m short term response to the annual cash limits . |
| 17 | This meant that programme managers had little incentive to adapt their expenditures in response to increasing relative costs , except in the short term in response to the annual cash limits . |
| 18 | Jim was of the opinion that the parrot ploy had some merit , mentioning a woman with one that spoke a very interesting variety of English . |
| 19 | Team Costa Rica were openly demoralised and reduced to tears by their disqualification and Cafe Britt had any chance of success stolen from them with the retirement of an injured team member . |
| 20 | The Cell paper had six authors . |
| 21 | The car bodies had four side windows on each deck and the upper deck canopies were enclosed , but not the lower deck , in deference to police regulations enforced in the London area at that time . |
| 22 | Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson . |
| 23 | This chapter will therefore examine also whether the action project had any effect upon cognitive impairment ( Did it help to delay deterioration , or even improve , mental state ? ) ; whether dementia sufferers in the action project expressed less worry , sadness , loneliness than those in the control samples ; whether the project helped people to maintain their capacity to cope with certain tasks or activities of daily living ; and finally whether it succeeded in obtaining more of other community services for its clients than were obtained by those in the control sample ( eg more home help , meals-on-wheels , day care , home nursing , and so on ) . |
| 24 | The uncertainty principle had profound implications for the way in which we view the world . |
| 25 | ‘ Some people ’ had argued that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide had serious implications for the climate , but the committee had not come to any conclusions on that . |
| 26 | Chris was plagued by a dry ticklish cough which kept him ( and Carolyn ) awake for the best part of three nights , and on which the cough medicine had little effect . |
| 27 | He had loaned five thousand pounds to Phillip Wreck , one of the most notorious villains in Paddington , and in Joe 's mind Michael had more chance of getting the Pope 's inside leg measurement than he had of getting that money back . |
| 28 | In the event , the decision proved premature and the UK equity market had another 11% appreciation ahead of it to the end of 1992 . |
| 29 | Having the right in the more serious cases to appeal over the head of the chief constable to the Watch Committee had little effect . |
| 30 | The South West had 10 players from champions Bath and Barnes added : ‘ When we were 14 points adrift I regarded that as an Alpine peak to climb — not a Himalayan . |