Example sentences of "had [art] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way of life sharedealers aspired to was epitomised in the lifestyle of a Sultan whom a few Tudorbury staff once had the privilege of meeting . |
| 2 | Mancini 's account is an inversion of that suggested here , but it is possible that he had the spectrum of conciliar opinion right and then misread its implications . |
| 3 | Mancini 's account is an inversion of that suggested here , but it is possible that he had the spectrum of conciliar opinion right and then misread its implications . |
| 4 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 5 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 6 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 7 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 8 | Leeds had the majority of play , did some very neat football , but always looked vulnerable in defence and never really looked like scoring . |
| 9 | The new organization had the Secretary of State at its head assisted by a private secretary and a Précis Writer . |
| 10 | Well , I had the whole of north Scotland from the Orkneys to Moray , and Siward has only those bits of Northumbria that Ligulf and the rest have n't written their crosses on . |
| 11 | He told me I had the love of Art , but not the religion of Art . |
| 12 | No longer were the sole colours available black and scarlet , for one now had the choice of midnight blue , holly green and turquoise , the latter being usually reserved for infants . |
| 13 | The cohorts now past retirement age , it must be remembered , had the experience of childhood during the inter-war depression years and then young adulthood in the war , when they were encouraged rather than discouraged from smoking . |
| 14 | Except for the flies that is which had the persistence of pit bull terriers . |
| 15 | I had the trappings of success , of social acceptability . |
| 16 | It had the help of finance from the Welsh Development Agency and publicity from Nicholas Edwards , the Secretary of State for Wales , who provided a video-taped message for the launch . |
| 17 | And the road had the look of water , silvered under the rising moon . |
| 18 | The neighbour told the inquest : ‘ He had the freedom of spending money and having a good time with his friends . |
| 19 | He had the freedom of spirit to cut through convention and authority if he felt it to be an impediment to his calling . |
| 20 | This plan had the advantages of simplicity and ease of co-ordination of interlocking services , e.g. welfare and housing . |
| 21 | His voice had the roughness of sandpaper . |
| 22 | He contrasted their lot with what could be achieved by senior people who had the benefit of Share Option Schemes . |
| 23 | Those of you who had the benefit of tv replays and pundits blathering will actually know a lot more about it than I can recall . |
| 24 | After all , one feels , Mrs Washington was surely a thrifty housewife ; had the invention of margarine occurred a century sooner than it did , no doubt she would have taken advantage of the development . |
| 25 | They were standing on the lawn in front of the lovely red-brick house with its weathered old red tiles and its tall chimneys , and Miss Honey still had the pair of garden clippers in one hand . |
| 26 | He had made that mistake already , by accepting Vincente Minnelli 's offer and he knew , at the end of the day , it was not right ; that Sixties way of thinking that rejected anything that had the stamp of establishment on it was also his philosophy . |
| 27 | No sooner had the Minister of Education , Lionel Jospin , stated that the scarves could not be a motive for excluding the girls from school than the teachers ' union , traditionally close to the Socialist Party , called him a traitor and 50 of his deputies signed a petition publicly disaffiliating themselves from his line and asking for his resignation . |
| 28 | As the level of delegation increased , so too had the level of consultation that took place in order to identify and prioritise spending needs , although the degree of consultation varied greatly from one school to another . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm glad she had the presence of mind to help you . |
| 30 | She knew there was something untoward afoot , so she apparently had the presence of mind to count the doors that opened , the strides she took and the stairs she mounted . |