Example sentences of "the [noun] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was virtually no comfort even in the royal apartments ; none of the bathrooms had running water and everyone was forced to rely on servants whose sole duty it was to provide water for washing . |
| 2 | About half the remainder had firm reasons for preferring cash to credit at least in this instance — because it was cheaper , or because it would avoid a chain of later bills , for example . |
| 3 | The seamen had good reason to suppose that the arguments on the employers ' side for resisting negotiations at national level were weakening . |
| 4 | The Prince had high hopes on that July day too . |
| 5 | The Duke had powerful artillery and trained soldiers ; the Prince had lesser firepower and undisciplined goodwill . |
| 6 | In the first place , the Pentagon had partial control over how the funds granted under the terms of the Pacts of Madrid were to be spent . |
| 7 | One wonders if the Captain-General had any idea of the utter impossibility of navigating at 75°S , for on this longitudinal track his ships would be stuck fast in the thick ice-of the Weddell Sea , hemmed in by the unimagined continent and unendurable cold of the Antarctic . |
| 8 | The Orient had well-developed civilizations long before anything in Europe , and they too appreciated the qualities of the rose and its potential when cross-bred and hybridized — a process that was well in advance of the horticultural achievements of European civilizations by the time the latter 's explorations brought East and West together . |
| 9 | It was also suggested that the Board had insufficient knowledge of the Highlands and all this made it difficult for them to act correctly . |
| 10 | The Board had long debates about whether the content of degrees in the areas should be for or in librarianship , what the academic content of study should be , and what career opportunities would be open to students if they were not subject graduates . |
| 11 | Although the RAF had standard instrument panels from 1936 onwards it was a long time before the merits of this tidy arrangement really caught on in the USA . |
| 12 | The RAF had two squadrons of Hunters and four Shackleton bombers at Aden , and a transport force of twelve Beverleys and six Vallettas split between Aden and Kenya . |
| 13 | I think at the time the RAF had more volunteers than it could cope with and much weeding out was done , but in his case he blotted his copybook good and proper by doing a bit of unauthorised low flying over a south Devonshire town , frightening all the old ladies . |
| 14 | The Stewarts had another residence , in Renfrewshire , and it was while they were visiting it that a tragedy occurred . |
| 15 | In the Commons debate a sponsor of Radical Alternatives to Prison , Robert Kilroy-Silk , said that penal reformers ( he mentioned the Howard League , NACRO , and the ACPS ) were in favour of partly suspended sentences , as he was himself , on the grounds that the length of the sentence had little deterrent effect . |
| 16 | The artists had unlimited patience not only in modelling but also in casting , for some pieces were made in stages . |
| 17 | They did not : the Canadians had one sort of sovereign , and the British had another sort . |
| 18 | The dark passage-ways of the basement had other doors with interests behind them . |
| 19 | The Courts had unfettered discretion . |
| 20 | Now the Germans had little choice but to dig trenches and hope to win a war of attrition : a forlorn expectation , with the enemy ranks gathering against them . |
| 21 | Early medieval church music was all plain chant , in which the notes had fluid time values . |
| 22 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 23 | The houses had triangular gables and brought back memories of Rotterdam and Brussels . |
| 24 | None of the houses had central heating . |
| 25 | The houses had antiquated boiler systems , which constantly went wrong . |
| 26 | But the groups had historic scores to settle with each other , some of the nastiest no older than the second world war . |
| 27 | There were other roads through the Alps , and other intermediaries : certainly the Etruscans and probably the Phoenicians , with whom the Massaliotes had hostile encounters ( Thucyd. 1.13.6 ; Paus. 10.18.7 ) . |
| 28 | By the end of the decade the majors had secure ownership rights to crude oil only within the OECD area . |
| 29 | All three mutations result in decreased CytR regulation with the mutation at -72 exhibiting the largest effect and , once again , neither of the mutations had any effect on cAMP-CRP activation of deoP2 transcription ( Table I ) . |
| 30 | He was in Paris from June 1720 until November 1721 , but the ministry had little confidence in him and appointed first John , second Baron Carteret ( later Earl Granville , q.v. ) , as ambassador extraordinary in January 1721 , a post he did not take up , and secondly Sir Luke Schaub [ q.v. ] as ambassador the following month . |