Example sentences of "be [that] [noun] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's lucky is that Harry had the sense to take you with him . |
| 2 | ‘ What she means , ’ interposed Madame Delon , ‘ is that Alain had a hard , one could almost say , a ruthless side to his nature — oh yes , he did ! ’ she insisted as her friend was about to protest . |
| 3 | What does seem to be the case is that Rolle had an experience of what he understood as divine reality which transfigured his ordinary perception and that he could only express this in terms of the way men respond to the arts of music and literature . |
| 4 | The basis of Mr Bartlett 's argument was that NGC had a legal obligation under the 1989 Electricity Act to link power from generators into the grid system . |
| 5 | He was referring to the well known local character whose unenviable job as council dustman , included emptying the local toilet buckets , as there was no running water in the area The local joke was that Terry had no problem getting a drink . |
| 6 | The bad news was that Alex had a gun and was shooting at him . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , what was not made clear to George was that Frank had an extremely ambitious , though very pleasant , wife who insisted on participating in events to the exclusion of George , who had a very proper concern for himself . |
| 8 | Dr Fleming said the reason was that Germans had a quite different medical tradition and expected to see a specialist . |
| 9 | What Geraci still did n't know was that Zen had no recent operational experience in Rome or anywhere else . |
| 10 | The difference between them was that Louis-Napoleon had no intention of sliding down again and in this determination he was aided , not for the last time , by the actions of his opponents . |
| 11 | Being a prosperous town , thanks to the surrounding mines , with an ambitious but isolated population ( inclined to snobbishness — and , incidentally , to anti-Semitism ) , social and artistic life was active , and one effect of moving there was that Herbert had the chance to indulge his interest in amateur dramatics . |
| 12 | The trouble was that George had a needling propensity for deception that could not be slaked . |
| 13 | The upshot was that Bishop had a superb match as he sought to keep the game alive by constructively cautioning and chivvying the players to stay within the bounds of the permissible . |
| 14 | The second was that Winchester had a right of appeal under the Lautro Rules which they had not been afforded the opportunity of exercising . |
| 15 | The trouble was that Fred had no real idea of what had gone on tonight , but she had ! |