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

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1 I think the association had in the early a very close working relationship with Radio Brighton and we certainly keep contact with Radio Medway , Radio Brighton and all the other television and radio companies which are active within the region .
2 Indeed , the achievement of a disciplinary identity based upon academic research had by the late 19305 more or less excluded the amateur scholar-gentleman .
3 Veterinary historians still differ sharply about the effect his long spell in charge of the College had on the emerging profession .
4 The only gleam of hope the Prime Minister could offer was that the Cabinet had on the previous day agreed to ask the Bank of England whether an increase of cuts from 56 million to 76 million , including a ten per cent cut in unemployment benefits , would be enough to ensure an American loan .
5 At the wider scale , Baker and Butlin point to two important influences which the physical environment had on the developing cultural mosaic based on farming patterns : its influence on the pace and timing of settlement and colonization , and its influence on the amount of wasteland available , which acted as a safety valve and meant that no provision for grazing need be made within the settlement itself ( 1973 , pp. 630–1 ) .
6 The following extracts from it , written before Edward had met Helen Noble but after he had left St. Paul 's catches the effect the old man had upon the young would-be writer :
7 The remaining chapters in this part of the book examine the economic forces which have contributed to these trends and the impact which population change has in its turn had on the spatial organization of economic activity .
8 The LA had to consider any effect which the use of an operating centre had on the local environment .
9 It meant that the moor had in the past few days become known not as somewhere unique and beautiful but as the place where a young girl had been killed .
10 The Congress had on the previous day voted ( by 1,542 to 368 , with 76 abstentions ) to waive the provision for a direct election , assessing that the " difficult " situation in the country was likely to render any delay in installing the first President a " grave political mistake " .
11 Lévi-Strauss saw structuralism as playing the same role for the social sciences as nuclear physics had for the physical sciences .
12 Its importance arose from the extent to which Christianity had by the early eleventh century become part of political and national life , its complexity in part from the complex nature of church affairs themselves .
13 In a kindly voice ( for which , later , he felt like smacking her ) , she said , ‘ I think you are mixing me up with the child our mother had in the late 1930s . ’
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