Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A seven-member commission had the job of ranking the candidates on the basis of their scientific qualifications and on their performance at an oral examination consisting of a discussion of their scientific work and an academic lesson . |
| 2 | In the nature of things , only a tiny minority had the control of , or access to , the press and were thus able to exercise this freedom . |
| 3 | The prospect of a good scrap had the blood dancing in his veins . |
| 4 | The chain terminated in an iron ball covered with spikes ; a variant form had the chain supporting a wooden or iron flail sprouting spikes . |
| 5 | As Dr Digby has pointed out : " That a freeborn Englishman had the right to be relieved in his own home and should not be imprisoned in a workhouse was to be a recurrent theme in East Anglian popular protest . " |
| 6 | Being a convicted murderer had the edge on being a solicitor for Harris , Harris and Overdene of Blackfriars , London . |
| 7 | Only through the sacrifice of a distant people had the Old Ones been vanquished , and order been returned to the universe . |
| 8 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 9 | A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact . |
| 10 | In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons . |
| 11 | As a schoolboy it was thought he would have been in line for an International cap had the war not prevented all that . |
| 12 | The coming together of teacher and parent on an informal basis had the effect of encouraging parents to turn to teachers for advice . |