Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] had the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Liberal Democrats had the highest share of the vote in several authorities where they have proven local government strength . |
| 32 | We were appalled , though , at its appetite for electricity , even apart from the air-conditioning : the tiny kitchen had the water heater , the mighty cooker ( with its spotlights and extractor hood ) , the fridge , the dishwasher , the waste disposer — and , already plugged in , the coffee-maker , the toaster and the electrical can-opener . |
| 33 | The idea seems to have been that this bombing would last only until the Bosnian government had the armaments it wanted to fight its own war . |
| 34 | Although the previous scale had the advantage of corresponding to actual measured accident statistics it proved relatively awkward for subjects to use and is clearly subject to what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms logarithmic response bias . |
| 35 | ‘ Whether the juniors in the previous decade had the commitment ’ , and |
| 36 | Depression of the opposite hemisphere had the converse effect . |
| 37 | Ultimately it was Nayim 's audacious away goal that ruled , but only in the closing minutes had the Londoners enjoyed a moment 's respite from the pumped-up Fourth Division team , who had Roy McDonough sent off for a reckless tackle near the end . |
| 38 | The three-part scroll had the regimental title shown in a slightly different form : BORDER , CUMBERLAND and REGIMENT . |
| 39 | The smooth tones had the silky menace of an inquisitor intent on a confession . |
| 40 | In place of the Think Tank the Prime Minister had the Policy Unit . |
| 41 | King Hussein and the Prime Minister had the right to commute the death sentences . |
| 42 | J And in a similar vein Marx argued that wage payments in the capitalist system had the effect of alienating the worker from the products of his labour and reducing both to the status of commodities in the market place . |
| 43 | There , the capitalist class had the larger savings propensity , and a transfer to wage-earners reduced the rate of accumulation . |
| 44 | The WHO Director-General , Hiroshi Nakajima , described this situation as a " preventable tragedy " , because the industrialized countries had the " resources and technology to end common diseases worldwide " but lacked the " will " to help the developing countries . |
| 45 | The suspended sentence had the disadvantage of seeming to be not quite one thing or the other , with some sentencers succumbing to the temptation of adding to the length of the term of imprisonment which would have been imposed immediately , so balancing the act of suspension with greater severity in the event of a breach . |
| 46 | From 1947 to 1950 there was a contest over the rival merits of enterprise agreements against collective industrial bargaining but the Densan precedent had the support of the US occupation , the Japanese state and local employers . |
| 47 | They needed a strengthened carriageway for their armoured personnel carriers and lighting to make sabotage difficult , not that the demoralised citizens had the nerve to inflict mass reprisals upon themselves . |
| 48 | In the Greek philosophy the physical world had the status of a deity to be feared and worshipped , which not surprisingly was a great constraint to the development of technology and the exercise of dominion over nature . |
| 49 | I can not answer for other members of the United Nations , but in our meeting last week I certainly drew attention to the necessity for ensuring that the United Nations had the right financial and material aid to complete the tasks that we have set it . |
| 50 | Furthermore , it seems doubtful if the pre-industrial family had the resources to serve the functions of education , medical care or support of the elderly . |
| 51 | They soon talked and agreed that the shortish novel had the potential to make a good movie . |
| 52 | The southern States had the lowest effective tax rates ( for local and State corporate and property taxes ) in the 1970s , for example , and many local governments there have fewer controls on development ( Houston 's lack of a land-use plan is frequently cited in this respect ) . |
| 53 | The southern universities had the proton accelerator , at the Rutherford Laboratory . |
| 54 | The house that William had found was down one of the side streets and not so majestic , but it still had a fair bit of the Gothic about it , and the brass knocker on the front door had the face of an ogre . |
| 55 | After the remarks , Official Unionist Party leader James Molyneaux claimed the Irish government had the same ultimate objectives as the IRA , while Peter Robinson , deputy leader of the Rev Ian Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party , said Mr Reynolds 's speech was a justification for the ‘ absurd and illegal ’ territorial claim . |
| 56 | The non-metropolitan districts had the additional advantage of being able to portray themselves as the victims of county councils spending heavily in one of their own non-election years . |
| 57 | One morning , when I put the lights on , the Lunar Wrasse had the Lionfish cornered and was taking chunks out of it . |
| 58 | But the irrepressible Saunders had the final word in the first half . |
| 59 | was interpreted impeccably ( since the American interpreters had the advantage of speaking all three languages fluently ) . |
| 60 | The Welsh voice had the authentic touch of urgency : " Jones , of Swansea Valley . " |