Example sentences of "the [noun pl] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The solicitors had a conflict of interests , and should have arranged for him to receive independent legal advice . |
| 2 | The courts had a variety of treatment orders available in respect of the children brought before them , including placing children on probation and sending them to attendance or detention centres or to approved schools . |
| 3 | There was no tune , but the notes had a pattern nevertheless that was very compelling . |
| 4 | The birds had a habit of dipping their beaks in the water and then shaking their heads so that the ivory-coloured beaks flashed in the sun . |
| 5 | It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot . |
| 6 | In addition , the groups had a group discussion ( organized by the team leader ) between the first and second repetitions , though the subjects actually performed the experiment on an individual basis on each repetition . |
| 7 | If each of the products had a chance of great profitability then there would be true Broadway risk , but that sort of expectation for a single product is unrealistic . |
| 8 | The merchants had a problem , claims Marglin , because the spinners and weavers had what the economists term a ‘ leisure preference ’ . |
| 9 | Perhaps the cops had a man calling up every half hour , and a squad car ready to be here in seconds . |
| 10 | As the pairs had a pattern to follow which was dictated by the components of their task — lexis , structure , discourse function — it was possible for me to stop the discussions from time to time to concentrate the attention of the whole group on specific issues like , for example , the meaningful teaching or certain lexis and grammar . |
| 11 | The tender had to be accepted by the housing corporation and then the builders had a summer holiday ! |
| 12 | Only the Wesleyans had a system whereby the national organization had any control and even they had problems . |
| 13 | And er all the branches had a cook at the national agreement how to try and alter it and make it better . |
| 14 | The others had gone willingly , but the drivers had a feeling of resentment from the start ; army pay was less than their civilian earnings . |
| 15 | Well as I say , the police stopped them the other morning and one of the lads had a chat with the driver and all this and he carried on . |
| 16 | Whatever date one ascribes to the letter , Remigius conceived of Childeric 's power in terms of Roman provincial rule , and he also thought that the clergy had a right to advise , even though the ruler might be barbarian and pagan . |
| 17 | The rhetoric of the rallies had a kind of doom about them . |
| 18 | This itself hints that if birds are descended from dinosaurs , it is likely that the dinosaurs had a system that was different from both birds and mammals . |
| 19 | Parents of the subjects had a glucose tolerance test ( n=48 ) or had fasting plasma glucose and glycated haemoglobin concentrations measured ( n=52 ) . |
| 20 | The brothers had a wood business , buying old trees from the various farmers , cutting them into logs and selling them around the locality . |
| 21 | After the war , the brothers had a row and split ( good soap opera plot , this ) and Adi formed Adidas and their kid formed Puma . |
| 22 | The Scots had a visitor when they trained at Fort Stanley yesterday — their international stand-off , Craig Chalmers , who is here on holiday , a guest of a local architect , Jimmy Gibson , who hails from Ardrossan . |
| 23 | The Somme dragged on through July , a futile and terrible battle of attrition that cost hundreds of thousands of lives , through Aubers Ridge , Delville Wood , where the Cameronians had a section of trench they called Buchanan Street , and into a dreadful September , when Haig decided to try and break through on the Somme with a secret weapon , the tank . |
| 24 | As Oaxacan peasants needed some source of cash , the men started seasonal migration , which was disliked because the plantations had a reputation for malaria and poor living and working conditions in general . |
| 25 | The Commissioners had a discretion as to the levying of the money , but the court struck their decision down : the discretion was to be exercised according to reason and law and it was unreasonable for R to bear the whole burden . |
| 26 | None of the Directors had a material interest in any significant contract with the Company , or any subsidiary , during the year . |
| 27 | Critical of the establishment at the beginning , though never of the episcopacy as such , the Cistercians had a system that was as hierarchical as the papacy . |
| 28 | Some European governments have begun to mutter that it is time the Croats had a taste of sanctions . |
| 29 | It was n't any more unethical than if the companies had a summit conference the way Russia and the West meet . |
| 30 | But the rats had a party last night ! |