Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lord Mayor of Belfast had the Union Jack on the City Hall lowered to half-mast . |
| 2 | The outbreak of hostilities had the immediate effect of silencing most of those within Congress who had spoken out against war , and effectively removed the argument that sanctions should be given a longer period in which to work . |
| 3 | Nor is there any reason to assume that the system would have adjusted smoothly to the onset of overaccumulation had the oil crisis not occurred . |
| 4 | The other piece of paper had the name J. Williams on it . |
| 5 | We do n't normally give the verdict at the beginning of the review , but what the heck : this MIDI preamp from Marshall had the collective pulse rate quickening by the minute , as rack and reviewers put each other through their paces . |
| 6 | The horse in fact had the beginnings of colic , and Rosslyn 's understanding enabled her to help the horse before the situation became too serious . |
| 7 | The force from Hereford had the choice of two ways in , the more northerly by Hay and Brecon , the more southerly by Abergavenny , and by ill-luck chose the first . |
| 8 | Localities adjacent to industrial concentrations such as Canning Town , Silvertown , and the Lea complex at Stratford had the highest proportions of unskilled labour , and , as a concomitant , the deepest social distress . |
| 9 | But wood was a much more common fuel for engines , and the appearance of railways and the provision of stations had the power to change the appearance of vast regions . |
| 10 | An additional experiment demonstrated that the smell of mothballs had the same effect . |
| 11 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |
| 12 | However , he recovered , and following the siege of Worcester had the great joy of being able to go and see his friends at Kidderminster once again . |
| 13 | Originally this type of system had the soil stack running down the outside of the house ( as with two-pipe systems ) ; in many houses built since 1976 , the soil stack has been placed inside the house structure . |
| 14 | Speaking at Midnight Mass at St Patrick 's Cathedral in Armagh City , Cardinal Daly said a small group of men had the power to call a truce and ensure it was fully observed . |
| 15 | 3.35:TRIUMPH Hurdle hero Duke Of Monmouth had the ground against him when a well beaten third to STAUNCH FRIEND at Punchestown last backend . |
| 16 | Well the estate er er er the Duke of Sutherland had the whole of Assynt and then h General Stewart who was born in Nedd and worked and made his fortune if it was as you would say in Canada on the C P R. |
| 17 | He at least , unlike his superiors in ideology in Moscow had the courage to revise his stereotyped class views in a second book he published in 1924 . |
| 18 | ‘ My lord of Gloucester had the right of it there . ’ |
| 19 | The man who 'd led the fight to ban hunting since the Tories lost control of Wiltshire had the scent of victory . |
| 20 | The simple and almost revolutionary message of Francis had the fortune to reach the ears and attention of a pope of spiritual vision who , while not able to fill that role himself , recognized the strength and power that might be harnessed to both the papal curia and the Church as a whole . |
| 21 | Those who were safely beached on the shore of prosperity had the option of giving the credit to Providence , or arrogating it to themselves ; as they regarded those less fortunate ones who were struggling in the water , they could see them as victims of their own improvidence or of God 's ineluctable decree . |
| 22 | Under the previous legislation the Secretary of State had the discretion to turn down applications but exercised it only 519 times in the space of five years . |
| 23 | Although nobody dared suggest to Ceauşescu that he might be mortal or that the victory of socialism might not be permanent , the new Civic Centre in Bucharest had the air of being constructed as a vast set of archaeological remains , whose scale and purpose would baffle future generations like the lost pyramid-cities of the Guatemalan jungle . |
| 24 | A chicken farmer in Norfolk had the front of his house sprayed with liquid manure and a pharmaceutical laboratory was broken into in South Wales and about fifty white mice released . ’ |
| 25 | The women weeping over an open coffin in a Rowlandson drawing of c.1760 would have had more reason for grief had the merchandise not come up to their expectations ( Col. 6 ) . |
| 26 | In 1816 – 18 the second Marquess of Bute had the courtyard cleared of vegetation and rubble , and in 1871 – 79 the third Marquess cleared out the moat and engaged the architect William Burges to carry out restoration of the masonry . |
| 27 | Even so , the introduction of charges had the immediate response of reducing demands on the service , although this does not mean that all those who needed help were now able to get it , or that those withdrawing demand did not need help . |
| 28 | The Turkish manoeuvres which culminated in what seemed to be the disaster of Sinope had the object of making Nicholas look aggressive , but if the sultan hoped to increase the determination of Britain and France to put Russia in her place , he found that Britain , at least , dragged her feet . |
| 29 | Early development studies in SIXEP ( site ion exchange effluent plant ) at Sellafield showed that the sodium form of clinoptilolite had the highest preference for caesium and this has been confirmed by work at this university on both US and Indonesian natural clinoptilolites . |
| 30 | Pop music had Lennon , Jagger and Keith Moon ; the world of fashion and photography had David Bailey ; the nightclubs had Christine Keeler and the underworld of crime had the Kray Twins . |