Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visits of inspection to the cookhouses and latrines had a squalor about them that scarcely repaid even average keeness . |
| 2 | Symptoms and signs had a sensitivity and specificity of upper gastrointestinal disease of 50% and 83% respectively , and 44% and 80% for colonic disease . |
| 3 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 4 | Both students and parents had a go at this . |
| 5 | He was fine-featured and his dress and movements had a fastidiousness that made Ludo 's appearance seem almost earthy . |
| 6 | Hopes and dreams had a way of evaporating . |
| 7 | Before colorectal perfusion studies , the patients and controls had a bowel preparation as for flexible rectosigmoidoscopy , that is — diet restriction and oral purgative the day before and a non-irritative enema two hours before perfusion . |
| 8 | Carers ranked hospitalization as more important than other groups , and advocates had a rank ordering of issues which differed from the other groups , including clients . |
| 9 | Normally , the ratio was roughly equivalent to one post for every seven MPs ; in coalition , Liberals were appointed on a ratio close to that norm , but Unionists had a proportion of jobs to MPs more like one to twelve or fifteen . |