Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [noun] had the " in BNC.

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1 Under this contract the owner had the right to nominate which sub-contractor was to be engaged by the building firm to lay the floor .
2 For duties of a less routine kind the Secretary had the help of two secretaries for foreign tongues — Latin and French — and of his own personal staff .
3 We can see this idea expressed in international relations between states : the USA could not defeat Vietnam despite the fact that in terms of military equipment the USA had the most powerful weapons .
4 But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
5 One day the aunt had the most terrible toothache .
6 Throughout the season the air had the peculiar resonance that attends hot weather , carrying sound from vast distances .
7 As they rounded the last corner the leaders had the main field breathing down their necks .
8 In the process they 've lost a certain edge , for at the end The Cateran had the rage and the fury of a band at its peak falling apart .
9 In the process they 've lost a certain edge , for at the end The Cateran had the rage and the fury of a band at its peak falling apart .
10 Eventually this policy was abandoned because it was unprofitable for the Russian state treasury , and from then until the early twentieth century the Chukchis had the distinction of being recognized as ‘ not completely subdued ’ , and were left largely to their own devices .
11 By the eighteenth century the trade had the total monopoly on the provision of coffins .
12 On May 2nd this same year the ladies had the inconvenient request of asking that the men be prevented from using the ladies ' lavatory .
13 Last year the musical had the audience dancing in the aisles so tickets are selling fast .
14 At the time of construction the bridge had the distinction of being the largest swing bridge in the United Kingdom .
15 The authors published their reports at the 2nd Benoxaprofen Symposium in June , by which time the firm had the full texts of the assays .
16 The House of Commons would no longer reflect the ancient idea and be representative of " whole " boroughs , county communities , or corporate interests but would be representative of unorganised masses of individual men since at this time no women had the vote .
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