Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | An additional experiment demonstrated that the smell of mothballs had the same effect . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | ‘ My lord of Gloucester had the right of it there . ’ |
| 14 | The man who 'd led the fight to ban hunting since the Tories lost control of Wiltshire had the scent of victory . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The east of England had the lowest number of beef herds and the smallest numbers in the herds . |
| 24 | The Royal Bank of Scotland had the worst score of any Scottish company with a negative rating of -218 . |
| 25 | Chaplin and Stan Laurel appeared on stage at the Panopticon , but even these pulsars in the milky way of mirth had the feet ca'ed from under them by Fergus the Legless Leprechaun . |
| 26 | Calvin 's doctrine of election had the consequence that no earthly priesthood could arrogate the authority to determine whether an individual was of the elect . |
| 27 | At least the Under-Secretary of State had the guts to say that at the Dispatch Box . |
| 28 | This simple solution to the problem of access had the merit of combining a secure approach with a clear vista of the proposed ‘ House of the People ’ . |
| 29 | Boccara/Boucherit of France had the next fastest time but they were seen to be wash hanging , not for the first time at this level , and a protest was upheld , posing the question why the umpires Riccardo Guala and Glyde Brytt had given white flags . |
| 30 | The House of Lords had the opportunity to bury the prejudgment rule in the extraordinary case of Re Lonrho plc . . |