Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sun published a front page lead stating that a Labour London borough had banned the teaching of Baa Baa Black Sheep as racist . |
| 2 | erm called Bocodonism and it turns out , find out later in the book that the reason they outlawed this is because of the guy Bocodon who was , who originated the religion had made a deal with the head of the state of the country that he would outlaw it , so that 's how the religion thrived , because it was outlawed |
| 3 | It said it could n't understand why the British Amateur Weight Lifter 's Association had reached the decision not to take action against the two weighlifters . |
| 4 | The association had to punish the county , Mrs Nicholl said , because the affiliation fees were their livelihood . |
| 5 | On Tuesday evening , the family heard that a housing association had struck a deal with a local farmer to buy a house which will be refurbished , extended and rented to the family , but a last minute call yesterday morning to the Scottish Office for more time to allow the family to move was turned down . |
| 6 | Another member of ASUTRAMES explained how the repression increased , until there came a point when the Association had to call a halt to its public activities . |
| 7 | In previous years the British Independent Programme Producers Association had taken a stand and we were initially distressed to find that this was not to be the case in 1990 — a decision based on the exorbitant cost ( they will retain a stand at MIP-TV ) . |
| 8 | Hundens Lane resident Ian Haszeldine said members of the allotment association had taken a lot of criticism about the way their land was kept . |
| 9 | Rumours that the Football Association had ordered a replay made it necessary for secretary Sir Frederick Wall to issue a statement confirming the result . |
| 10 | Castle Square tenants association had submitted a petition calling on the council to withdraw the offer . |
| 11 | Since 1870 , Banks insisted , the association had had an office in the town devoted exclusively to the rescue of women and children . |
| 12 | His unexpected display of kindness had opened the floodgates again . |
| 13 | But these inversions were quite different in purpose and effect from those that Pound had practised indiscriminately in his earliest collections , and thereafter castigated ; these were not poeticisms , but indications that he was addressing a sophisticated urban intelligentsia , that of Great War London , just as propertius had addressed the sophisticates of Augustan Rome . |
| 14 | And yet the best form of relief for this boy whom grief had made a man would be in action . |
| 15 | Once the initial surge of grief had passed the funeral was almost a celebration . |
| 16 | All uitlanders , or non-citizens , of British stock had to leave the Transvaal Republic , and in spite of their Dutch antecedents the Crankos had by then become fully anglicized . |
| 17 | IF THE Angry Brigade had chucked a bomb through the window of one particular Granada TV studio instead of Employment Secretary Robert Carr 's front room in '71 , the world would be free of Bernard Manning , Jim Bowen , Mike Reid , Stan Boardman , Frank Carson , and Tom O'Connor , such was the northern Working Men 's Club potential and future might of Johnny Hamp 's Comedians line-up . |
| 18 | Boro manager Lennie Lawrence was disappointed that his side had missed the opportunity to move into an automatic promotion place . |
| 19 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 20 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 21 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
| 22 | Their political leaders , horrified by the isolation to which the electorate had consigned the country , have rallied behind the treaty . |
| 23 | Five minutes before , the roar of their motorcycle exhaust had broken the Sunday afternoon slumber of the village of Ham . |
| 24 | To my surprise this man who could not swim a stroke had covered a quarter of a mile towards Malta , judging by the fluorescine trail . ’ |
| 25 | In the previous week the manor had cut the time to the summit by five minutes , but this was still two minutes short of the performance of No 75069 in June . |
| 26 | Reports in early March suggested that the US administration had defied a ban on military sales to Pakistan by issuing licences to commercial companies worth US$100,000,000 for the export of military spare parts . |
| 27 | The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives judiciary committee called on July 10 for the appointment of a special prosecutor ( independent counsel ) to investigate the possibility that senior members of the Bush administration had contravened the law in providing military assistance to Iraq in the period prior to its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , and had then sought to conceal the evidence through a cover-up . |
| 28 | The Clinton administration had floated the idea of increased ‘ sin taxes ’ on beer , spirits and tobacco to help pay for its health-care reforms . |
| 29 | His , left , faction of the party had decided on Jan. 24 to " go into opposition " by withdrawing from all leadership posts after centre-right elements of the DC within the Palermo administration had caused the mayor of that town , Leoluca Orlando , to be removed from office . |
| 30 | On July 13 the Guardian , quoting US officials , had claimed that the Bush administration had approved a list of 100 targets for possible air strikes against Iraq . |