Example sentences of "[noun sg] had a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eileen Sandford , vice-chairman of Shrewsbury 's housing committee , said the borough had a waiting list of more than 4,000 . |
| 2 | His girlfriend had a heart transplant . |
| 3 | The Downpatrick Club had a scoring average of 73 for four cards to head the Belvoir Park qualifiers and now meet Moyola Park for a place in the Ulster quarter-finals . |
| 4 | The car had a bench seat in the front and smelled of warm leather and old cigarette smoke . |
| 5 | Patients receiving cyclosporin in our study had a 20% rise in mean serum creatinine and a 14% reduction in mean iothalamate clearance at two years . |
| 6 | Fewer than than one in ten people in the British study had a flashbulb memory of what they were doing on the day of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster , according to the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , only one patient with documented PVO in the present study had a % PV flow of greater than 20% . |
| 8 | It can be seen from Table 6.3 that over one half of the research students involved in the study had a research area embraced by computing on its own or in combination with other subject areas . |
| 9 | The chief superintendent had a corner office with a view down onto the place where tenders took on loads of aviation fuel from huge land-based tanks . |
| 10 | Our survey showed that Labour had a 38pc share of the vote , the Conservatives 26.7pc , the Liberal Democrats 9.5pc , the British National Party 0.6pc . |
| 11 | The railway industry had a propaganda purpose in the streamlining of outlines and in the new doctrine of modernism in these years . |
| 12 | The fact that employers were organised by industry had a feedback effect on the structure of manual workers ' trade unions . |
| 13 | By this time , the British Committee had a boxroom office in Prague run by Quaker ladies and other volunteers from the British community . |
| 14 | If the Man of Law had a prose tale it should certainly have been a serious and learned tale like Melibee , the Parson 's Tale , or Chaucer 's translations of Boethius ' De consolatione philosophiae or Pope Innocent III 's De miseria condicionis humane , and thus a tale of the kind that found a place in fragment VII . |
| 15 | Proximal small bowel resection had a clearcut effect on both absolute and relative pancreatic weight . |
| 16 | Every child had a gas mask and a suitcase , or paper parcel . |
| 17 | One type had a timber roof which was supported on two rows of columns which divided the hall into a larger , central area and two narrower , side aisles . |
| 18 | To the north the Corridor had a sea coast of 76 km ; to the south it had the river Notec and the Notec canal . |
| 19 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 20 | I undertand that the British Transport Police yesterday found the receipt and now confirm that the ink is black — the receipt had a reference number written on it , 092 , the one issued to Mr. Brand for this journey and known only by InterCity staff . |
| 21 | The lead engine had a canvas dodger along its canopy , that was stencilled in crude letters : Look Out , Fritz ! |
| 22 | Univac 's masters decided the machine had a screw loose : most human pollsters were predicting a close race . |
| 23 | The machine had a plastic cover over it , like stereo systems used to have before they became furniture , I suppose to keep the dust out , but there was no mistaking the whirr-buzz sound . |
| 24 | A dull , fey whine that would never see release unless the singer had a track record . ’ |
| 25 | One day the woodwork teacher had a heart attack right in front of our eyes as one of the lads put another kid 's prick in a vice and started to turn the handle . |
| 26 | And of course in due course er time er the town had a gas station , erm or a gas , not a gas station , erm er a gas works . |
| 27 | ‘ Probably if they ever raise the funds to do a proper dig here , they 'll find the town had a guard outpost on that hillock . |
| 28 | They can be the names of plants , birds or insects ( the author had a school friend called ‘ Chickweed ’ for no better reason than his name was Hickwood ) , or styles of dress , manners or speech . |
| 29 | Unless it is assumed that the original stream had a meander belt of varying width , we must conclude that the meanders have not only been incised but also more fully developed in the more resistant rock . |
| 30 | Nevertheless the Phillips curve had a siren appeal in the later 1950s and early 1960s because of the ease with which it could be translated into part of aggregate demand management . |