Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half the remainder had firm reasons for preferring cash to credit at least in this instance — because it was cheaper , or because it would avoid a chain of later bills , for example . |
| 2 | The Prince had high hopes on that July day too . |
| 3 | The Duke had powerful artillery and trained soldiers ; the Prince had lesser firepower and undisciplined goodwill . |
| 4 | One wonders if the Captain-General had any idea of the utter impossibility of navigating at 75°S , for on this longitudinal track his ships would be stuck fast in the thick ice-of the Weddell Sea , hemmed in by the unimagined continent and unendurable cold of the Antarctic . |
| 5 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 6 | The Board had long debates about whether the content of degrees in the areas should be for or in librarianship , what the academic content of study should be , and what career opportunities would be open to students if they were not subject graduates . |
| 7 | In the Commons debate a sponsor of Radical Alternatives to Prison , Robert Kilroy-Silk , said that penal reformers ( he mentioned the Howard League , NACRO , and the ACPS ) were in favour of partly suspended sentences , as he was himself , on the grounds that the length of the sentence had little deterrent effect . |
| 8 | The dark passage-ways of the basement had other doors with interests behind them . |
| 9 | He was in Paris from June 1720 until November 1721 , but the ministry had little confidence in him and appointed first John , second Baron Carteret ( later Earl Granville , q.v. ) , as ambassador extraordinary in January 1721 , a post he did not take up , and secondly Sir Luke Schaub [ q.v. ] as ambassador the following month . |
| 10 | The University had 2000 teachers and more than 10,000 students , each of whom was required to produce a book every year on the nature of consciousness and the human mind . |
| 11 | The university had one college , Birkbeck , which awarded degrees to evening students so that they might work at their jobs during the day . |
| 12 | He told staff yesterday that the university had more staff whose research was given the top grade five rating than all the other Scottish universities put together . |
| 13 | In the home , the user had special pairs of earphones , mounted on what looked like a pitch Fork . |
| 14 | The Guardian had 75 stories . |
| 15 | The vicar had two sons much about the same age as my brother and myself , so we were often invited into the vicarage to play . |
| 16 | ( But even they may not be accurate : census-takers last year reported that , in some areas , they found it hard to get people to fill in their forms , because they thought the census had some connection with poll tax . |
| 17 | The driver had five passengers — three women and two men . |
| 18 | More commonly , the partners sold it when the driver had enough money to buy a truck of his own . |
| 19 | Luckily the driver had some idea of what was going on — and managed to escape assassination . |
| 20 | The cottage had solid brick walls , none of your modern self-insulating cavities . |
| 21 | He said the Budget had two objectives in that respect : to support the recovery in the year ahead ; and to set out a clear medium-term strategy for bringing the borrowing requirement back towards balance . |
| 22 | Now the scientist had final confirmation that Rohmer — the hard , forceful , determined and organised Rohmer — had lost his mind . |
| 23 | Whoever owned the cabin had wide-ranging interests — apart from several well-thumbed fishing journals and a variety of motoring magazines , there were numerous glossies that provided her with food for thought . |
| 24 | By the end of the year , the Association had two Lodges with residents in occupation , and a third in the final stages of conversion . |
| 25 | The college in question identified a number of emblematic companies operating in commercial/industrial sectors in which the college had corresponding courses ranging from engineering and electronics through marketing to beauty therapy and graphic design . |
| 26 | The College had good features but there was a ‘ lack of central planning and a lack of collaboration . |
| 27 | If however , it can be said that the employee had reasonable grounds for believing the information to be part of knowledge properly acquired during his employment then his defence will succeed . |
| 28 | If the case did concern a public function , the court would have to decide whether the applicant had sufficient standing , whether the case was brought in time , and whether the case was a hopeless , frivolous , or vexatious one . |
| 29 | But the Local Government Management Board denied the action had much effect . |
| 30 | He said that some witnesses in the action had strong views about the rights of the public over the beach and quarrying which has been carried on there . |