Example sentences of "the [adj] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 17th had four Companies to begin with , recruited from the Royal Technical College , F.P.s of city schools , and from the businesses and trades of the city . |
| 2 | They might have been supplied by sea , but the English had more ships than that first fleet driven off , and presently many vessels appeared at the mouth of Tweed , not to attempt attack this time but to patrol up and down , blockading the harbour . |
| 3 | Although tired and running out of provisions , the English had several advantages : a good defensive position ; a united command ; and the use of an army which had already proved highly successful against the Scots , a combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms for which , in the conditions prevailing on the day , the French cavalry and the crossbowmen of their Genoese allies proved no match . |
| 4 | My father said Eden should have kept the troops in Suez and only the British had moral integrity . |
| 5 | As long as the British had numerical superiority in ships , as long as Nelson 's unbroken string of victories remained unblemished by subsequent defeats , the authority of the Royal Navy was a generally accepted truth . |
| 6 | They did not : the Canadians had one sort of sovereign , and the British had another sort . |
| 7 | The EC summit in June 1989 agreed to achieve this first stage in July 1990 but set no dates for further progress and , yet again , the British had important doubts about the proposal . |
| 8 | By 28 November the French had total control of Haiphong and its airport and harbour . |
| 9 | Above all , however , the French had two objectives . |
| 10 | The French had little room for manoeuvre , and in May 1358 a treaty known as the ‘ First Treaty of London ’ was drawn up , under which Edward was to have a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes . |
| 11 | Again , in the case of Vietnam , this was accompanied by bitter political acrimony , at least on the operational level , between the Americans on the one side , the British and French on the other , about whether or not the French fighting in Vietnam were to be regarded as allies and whether or not the French had any entitlement to resume their pre-war position in Indochina . |
| 12 | He no longer thought the French had any intention of leaving Vietnam . |
| 13 | There was a representation that the accused had actual authority to make a contract with the shop and that the bank would honour the card . |
| 14 | Whether the accused had that intent had to be left to the jury . |
| 15 | There is no representation that at the time when the cheque is signed the accused had sufficient funds in his account . |
| 16 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 17 | Thatched roof , two storeys , the second had more mullion windows hunched inside the thatch . |
| 18 | Only 5% of patients were competent , and only 12% of the incompetent had living wills . |
| 19 | Although their linear growth improved ( change in SDS for height=+0.87 ( 0.93 ) , 10 of the 17 had final heights below the third centile ( SDS for ultimate height=-1.94 ( 0.93 ) ) . |
| 20 | The loss of two men , a highly expensive experimental aeroplane and the F-104 had serious repercussions , especially when one considered that all this happened when all were engaged in taking photographs for a private company during a military test flight . |
| 21 | The District 's Annual Report for 1959–60 said that , although the WEA 's national officers were still trying to achieve this increased grant , the Eastern had exceptionally-strong claims and accordingly ‘ we are now pressing for special consideration ’ : in other words , Jacques was arguing with the Ministry that , even if it could not afford 90% grant to the WEA as a whole , could this not be allowed to the Eastern District individually ? |
| 22 | Evidence of present or past excessive alcohol intake was found in 13 young hypertensive men , an impressive figure until we examined records for male controls ; 13 of the 25 had similar evidence . |
| 23 | In 1988 , 70 per cent of the estate 's adults were unemployed and 49 per cent of the jobless had criminal records . |
| 24 | Similarly , when new Construction and Use Regulations were introduced on 1 August 1986 , the haulier had another driver training task to undertake . |
| 25 | Then the Philharmonic had some crisis and claimed they needed an extra rehearsal elsewhere . |
| 26 | The first had 16 metres of tunnels , with three open and two old , now blocked , entrances . |
| 27 | The first had three bedrooms and a gym — a must for Geoffrey — on a 21ft wide , 107ft deep plot in Hampstead . |
| 28 | The former had little difficulty in removing Harold Evans from the editorship of The Times despite the elaborate system of guarantees that surrounded the editor 's post . |
| 29 | Both urban and marginal men believed that education was the best means to achievement , but the former had better opportunities to actually benefit from schooling . |
| 30 | The report rejected the idea of two distinct groups of children , the handicapped and the non-handicapped , of whom the former had special education and the latter just education . |