Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] have the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My predecessor had the back door and one side door permanently barred . |
| 2 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 3 | No doubt members would calculate whether it was to their advantage to have the waiting period reduced to 12 months . |
| 4 | Miss Lavant 's scarlet coat was of fine tweed , her skin had the poreless look of porcelain . |
| 5 | Her skin had the beautiful , papery-thin translucence of great age . |
| 6 | As he had suspected , her skin had the unmistakable radiance of youth . |
| 7 | The emergence of these rules out of a common law which denies their existence has the added consequence , attractive to those who make them , that they are not subject to parliamentary or to adequate judicial control . |
| 8 | Most people who take photographs of their lovemaking have the good sense to review such wanton moments in private . |
| 9 | By the fifth week , La Croix was linking names of bishops with the general gist of what they had said in the debates : its editor had the good fortune himself to be a peritus . |
| 10 | They must satisfy the Authority that they have all technical equipment to do their job efficiently and that their manager has the necessary professional quali-fications . |
| 11 | In this respect , their rhetoric had the principal aim of facilitating the reader 's response to these otherwise ‘ incomprehensible ’ texts whose erosion of conventional contours impeded the reader 's access . |
| 12 | Her voice had the pubescent innocence of a junior high school majorette . |
| 13 | It had not crossed Flora 's mind that St Saviour 's might need payment for teaching her , only that her place there depended upon her ability to have the right uniform , all the uniform , down to the last sock garter and science overall . |
| 14 | His skin had the golden sheen of an eagle 's plumage … skin but not quite skin — oh yes ! thought Grainne , drowning in delight now . |
| 15 | Hospital executive David Brown , 32 , could suffer 100 strokes from a six foot bamboo cane if his attempt to have the harsh ruling reversed fails . |
| 16 | He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition : |
| 17 | Admitting this , it might nevertheless be claimed that a person 's consenting entails , as a matter of the meaning of ‘ consent ’ , not only that he acted in the way I have described , but that his action has the purported normative consequences . |
| 18 | Although his owner , Charles St George , obviously feels his colt has the necessary speed for Newmarket , he and trainer Henry Cecil will no doubt be hoping for a strong pace on 21 October . |
| 19 | He thrust into her ripe fig , obviously believing that his penis had the magic power to make her his slave forever . |
| 20 | Another case of comparatively recent vintage , Re Bell 's Indenture [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1217 , confirmed that a solicitor in the ordinary course of his business has the implied authority of his partners to accept trust moneys as agent of the trustees but has no such authority to accept office as trustee and so make his co-partners liable for any misapplication of trust property . |
| 21 | ‘ Flaubert does not build up his characters , as did Balzac , by objective , external description ; in fact , so careless is he of their outward appearance that … ’ it would be interesting to compare the time spent by Flaubert making sure that his heroine had the rare and difficult eyes of a tragic adulteress with the time spent by Dr Starkie in carelessly selling him short . |
| 22 | I always felt that Roman was exiled because his wife had the bad taste to be murdered in the newspapers . ’ |
| 23 | Tall and slim , his frame had the lean tautness of an athlete 's . |
| 24 | In the first half his passing had the right weight and direction to give Williams and Wright opportunities to use their speed against the Yugoslav defence and bypass the sweeper , Petric . |
| 25 | He called it " Propopamide " but his lordship had the utmost faith in him . |
| 26 | His voice had the rounded vowels of a public-school education , and his well-cut , tropical-weight putty-coloured suit was worn with a Sea Island cotton shirt and an Hermès tie . |
| 27 | At times , his music has the fragmented feel of a late-night stroll through a busy city centre ! |
| 28 | They claimed that Mr Cash had told MPs his motion had the personal support of Mr Major . |
| 29 | The handsome young Annamese in his early twenties who offered his hand promptly to Joseph and his mother had the piercing gaze and broad forehead of a scholar . |
| 30 | His speech had the harsh , guttural sound of Kamalian . |