Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun] had the " in BNC.

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1 Occasionally the Lincoln crews had the advantage of working with British Austers who acted as Forward Air Control units , relaying information to the Lincolns as they made their way into their bomb runs .
2 Both Sir John and the Harwell Lab had the highest reputations , and so the confident media were unequivocal .
3 The former English Girls ' champion was able to compare notes with Fiona Brown , for the Cheshire player had the same experience during her 79 .
4 No-one wanted to know , unless they could get rewrites where everyone lived happily ever after and stars of The Cosby Show had the lead roles .
5 In the short term , however , the Milan Conference had the beneficial result of placing deaf education on the political agenda .
6 Even prior to rate capping and the poll tax the United Kingdom had the most centralised revenue structure in the western world , with the exception of France and Belgium .
7 Seriously , as the Boundary Commission proceeds with its report over the next 10 years , would not it be correct to ensure that all parts of the United Kingdom had the same proportion of representatives ?
8 In 1982 , the United Kingdom had the highest level of unemployment among the seven major countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) .
9 All four informants confirmed that the United States had the Iranian Embassy in Beirut under electronic surveillance prior to the disaster .
10 The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union .
11 Now Kennedy had a dilemma although Cuba was in the Caribbean , and although the United States had the biggest navy in the world , and the biggest airforce and was easily able to exterminate Cuba if it wa if it wished to , it was vulnerable , however , in other areas , in particular it was vulnerable in Berlin and it was vulnerable in Indo-China .
12 The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union .
13 Now Kennedy had a dilemma although Cuba was in the Caribbean , and although the United States had the biggest navy in the world , and the biggest airforce and was easily able to exterminate Cuba if it wa if it wished to , it was vulnerable , however , in other areas , in particular it was vulnerable in Berlin and it was vulnerable in Indo-China .
14 Only when a Navy vessel had force-landed on one of the Manchu worlds had the deception been uncovered .
15 First , it meant that the Franco regime had the approval and protection of the most powerful nation in the world .
16 Vernon admitted that the post had its attractions : the Lord Chamberlain had the best lodgings at court , could recommend his friends for offices , and was continually in attendance on the Queen ‘ to take any advantage of time and occasion ’ for the presentation of suits .
17 Entertainment and Media er the Tussaud Group had the highest ever attendances at Alton Towers , at Warwick Castle er and at Rock Circus .
18 The FSE/SAM group had the highest proportion of never smokers ( 83% , 924/1113 ) , and the SAM group the lowest ( 74% , 732/989 ) ; the 148 pupils for whom smoking status was not known were excluded from the data .
19 Monboddo and Johnson debated ‘ whether the Savage or the London Shopkeeper had the best existence , : unamazingly , no firm conclusion was reached , apart from Boswell 's recurring delight at how well the encounter went between the two men .
20 The Suffolk side had the perfect start , as the impressive Fry waltzed through the visitors ' defence to settle any early nerves and just six minutes later the title was effectively Tuddenham Road bound .
21 But the Lancashire side had the added ingredient of grit and some decisive tackling limited Swindon 's chances to two in an hour .
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