Example sentences of "[that] had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have met many of them at my advice surgery , and I will weep no tears over the demise of a tax that had no progressive element and which sometimes militated against people on low incomes . |
| 2 | Production was now centralized at Pinewood Studios , with Davis 's former personal assistant Earl St John , a one-time exhibitor , put in charge of making ‘ inexpensive films without artistic pretensions , films that had no other object than to provide good family entertainment and show a profit . ’ |
| 3 | And to do so would produce an unhistorical abstraction that had no concrete usefulness . |
| 4 | He dismissed the adaptive scenarios postulated by the Darwinians as ‘ just so stories ’ that had no scientific value . |
| 5 | ‘ Mother Machree ’ and even if everyone hated to admit it to his face , Father Mooney sang it well , considering he was a man that had no formal training at Ingham 's . |
| 6 | There were , of course , many tribes in the Midlands and south-west that had no direct contact with Caesar and this also applies to the Atrebates and the Regini on the south coast of modern Sussex and Hampshire . |
| 7 | Once goods had been brought to a European port , they could be re-exported at a higher price to other European countries that had no direct trade across the sea , so a good many of the calculations about trade were concerned with re-exporting goods which had not been processed into an improved form but were simply being sent to a place where they commanded some additional scarcity value . |
| 8 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 9 | And then she glanced out of the main kitchen window , the one that had a partial view of the terrace ; Angelica looked as well , and saw that they had a few customers arriving and looking around uncertainly at the unstaffed deck . |
| 10 | What sent me into a fear-filled frenzy was the news — hidden somewhere between a report on the seasonal suicide rate and an article on bogus Santas — that I had bought a ride-on fire engine for my baby son that had a dangerous fault and should be returned to the manufacturers immediately . |
| 11 | Sections of metaplastic mucosa that had a homogeneous pattern ( >90% mucosal surface ) were selected . |
| 12 | Louis 's age — he was sixty in 838 — made it urgent to find a succession-settlement that had a good chance of sticking . |
| 13 | The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature . |
| 14 | She had the straight , straight hair that had a reddy tinge on it , it was really nice . |
| 15 | Er there were very very few that had a regular job , really . |
| 16 | Er and , and the people that had a regular job , now there was one next door to us . |
| 17 | ‘ It was especially bad for me because I played with a guitar that had a floating bridge , which did n't really help things . |
| 18 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 19 | It points inter alia to the ambivalence of Darren Coulbourn 's racism and the significance of the masculine cult of violence that had a strong presence in the all-boys school . |
| 20 | But for those that had a strong belief in their own capabilities and therefore proceeded , shortage of funds was no problem and they were likely to succeed . |
| 21 | Table 9.1 indicates that the South East was the only region that had a higher share of GDP than would be expected from its population size . |
| 22 | The conclusion in No. 10 was , therefore , that it had become part of the Cabinet Office and was politically starved … on anything that had a political dimension , the tank found itself rather isolated . ’ |
| 23 | Its essence was the system of alternate or multiple parties whereby governments could be held responsible to different sections of the class or classes that had a political voice . |
| 24 | The delay in securing the desired promotion appears to suggest that the Marchmont interest , however influential in Berwickshire , was not particularly effective in London , and there were Scottish politicians who showed themselves better able to redeem promises that had a political importance . |
| 25 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 26 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 27 | No , I do n't think that had a great deal to do with it , erm it was question that when the town was designed the , there had n't been this sudden burst in living standards . |
| 28 | It reflects Tennyson 's own life and the tragic death of his friend Hallam , ‘ snatched away by sudden death ’ ; a death that had a deep effect on Tennyson as can be seen in this poem . |
| 29 | ‘ Scared ? ’ he asked casually on one occasion when going down a steep hill that had a sheer drop on one side . |
| 30 | I think coming from my working-class background , I was frightened of everything that had a vague look of an institution about it . |