Example sentences of "of [noun sg] had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All four changes of course had a Continental bias . |
| 2 | in addition , I have a Blue Ring Angel which at the time of purchase had a few white-spot-like fluffy things on the edges of his fins . |
| 3 | One side of Terrace had a little garden , a little postage stamp , no ever so small . |
| 4 | Another Director-General whose vision of broadcasting had a major influence in a period of important change in social attitudes was Hugh Greene , who oversaw a more liberal interpretation of ‘ public service ’ in the 1960s . |
| 5 | This level of abuse had a snowballing effect . |
| 6 | Against the angular and decaying walls of the tombs , the drifts of sand had a sensuous grace , immaculate and virginal . |
| 7 | The final words of forgiveness had a threefold action . |
| 8 | Research evidence suggests that old-fashioned formal teaching of grammar had a negligible , or , because it replaced some instruction and practice in composition , even a harmful , effect on the development of original writing . |
| 9 | But the Board of Trade had a great deal of latitude to vary the precise details of the arrangement , and insisted that , for discs , the records should bear the stamps , not the sleeves . |
| 10 | Working part of lunchtime had a slight advantage for me because it meant I now had a bit more time to load the container rail set . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that this early form of man had a greater impact on the natural world than any other animal . |
| 12 | The steady growth of the grip of family members on so many walks of life had a stifling effect on initiative , which had hardly been encouraged before 1965 . |
| 13 | The increasing numbers of monks in the tenth and eleventh centuries show that even before the papal reform the life of celibacy had a large number of devotees . |
| 14 | The Quarterly Journal of Science had a different aim . |
| 15 | Investigators suspect that many of the cargoes of coal had a high sulphur content . |
| 16 | Radicality of surgery had a considerable influence on survival ( curative resection : 11.8 months ; non-curative : 4.6 months ; Fig 1 ) . |
| 17 | In view of the UN 's role in this war , the choice of destination had a chilling logic . |
| 18 | Bakhtin 's theory of dialogism had a significant influence on French theorists of the late 1960s , and many of their conceptions of the disruptive power of certain kinds of language follow a similar logic . |
| 19 | For example , Christine Horton ( 1989 ) told the conference she regretted that many aspects of policing had a symbolic role which were not conducive to quantitative measures and were difficult to present with absolute objectivity . |
| 20 | Again one can see local variations : in Kent , where there was partible inheritance by the local custom called gavelkind , peasant holdings were subject to constant division and could then be reconsolidated , because the holders of land had a free right to alienate it . |
| 21 | On the amount of damages , Mr Lightman said the Court of Appeal had a special responsibility to bear in mind the ‘ dangerous precedent ’ which could be set by such awards , and added that in this case the award was out of all proportion to the alleged libel . |
| 22 | The discovery of induction had a profound influence on experimental embryology . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , the bourgeois ideology of domesticity had a major impact on the subordinate elements in the bourgeois coalition itself , those class fractions and groups who aspired to its social standards and standing , the middle and lower bourgeoisie . |