Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] had a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 From this it followed , among other things , that molecules had a shape in three-dimensional space , and the brilliant German chemist Kekule ( 1829–96 ) , in the very Victorian situation of a passenger sitting on top of a London bus in 1865 , imagined the first of the complex structural molecular models , the famous benzene ring of six carbon atoms to each of which a hydrogen atom was attached .
2 It did , however , provide that the Agency , through investigation , could help to ensure that employers promoted equality of opportunity in employment but it did not provide that employers had a duty themselves to promote equality of opportunity in employment .
3 It would be absurd if , following the Hayes and Garvin criticism of DCF , companies were to drop it and then assume that funds had a zero cost .
4 In conclusion , Mr Angus pointed out that trusts had a life after the next dividend declaration .
5 They noted that asylums had a tendency to provide employment on farms and in workshops for the most competent and socially organized patients and there were some remarkably successful asylum farming ventures ; for example , in the early twentieth century Cane Hill Hospital became famous for its herd of pedigree pigs .
6 Lady Wilcox claimed that there was widespread agreement that lenders had a responsibility to assist the minority of people who became ‘ debt casualties ’ , by helping to fund money advice .
7 It was the first appeal court ruling that relatives had a right to claim compensation over damage to a foetus which later caused the child 's death .
8 For gradually over thousands of years , the Mother Goddess who gave birth to all things had lost her power as people realized that men had a role in procreation .
9 Now , much of what they were saying — particularly their insistence that women had a right to control their bodies and therefore a right to family planning — was welcomed by all sides of the population industry .
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