Example sentences of "had [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 2 | South Africa had no-one of the athletic calibre of John Eales , Ian Jones or Michael Jones . |
| 3 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
| 4 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
| 5 | Not seeing Jane , however , was no cause for regret ; she had none of the kindly qualities of her husband . |
| 6 | If laboratory tests for HIV were not performed or gave indeterminate results , any of the conditions in the list below would indicate AIDS if it was diagnosed by a definitive method and the patient had none of the other causes of immunodeficiency listed below that could explain the occurrence of the indicator disease : |
| 7 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 8 | The use of qualifying standards meant the women had none of the awkward choices which confronted the men , also enabling them to bring in experienced campaigners like Christina Cahill ( 1,500 metres ) and Wendy Sly ( 3,000m ) , despite both runners having had restricted summer seasons . |
| 9 | The panels that ran along the walls were covered with large , functional looking controls that , thought the Doctor with distaste , had none of the elegant modernity of the TARDIS console . |
| 10 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |
| 11 | Bought clothing in the south had none of the hard-wearing qualities of northern home-spun . |
| 12 | This took the form of a recommendation to a university willing to take on an inspector , who often had none of the usual qualifications . |
| 13 | We worked in a special class and at a cracking pace — with a man called Harris , who had none of the contemporary difficulties about aims and objectives . |
| 14 | He was a short , precise man with a small moustache which reminded me a little of Hitler 's , but he had none of the German leader 's belligerence . |
| 15 | It had none of the institutional smell Alida had prepared herself for . |
| 16 | And , although the meeting of their lips had none of the searching hunger that they had shared before , there was something in the touch that reassured her . |
| 17 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 18 | It had none of the clinical efficiency of his mother 's , but it did remind him of his grandmother 's kitchen out on the farm , with its prosaic line of battered saucepans which shared a shelf with a large bowl for making bread and a hopeful looking collection of cake tins . |
| 19 | Claire Bloom , Chaplin 's girl protégé in Limelight ( 1952 ) , had none of the waif-like frailty of Paulette Goddard in City Lights ( 1931 ) but a look of cool composure and high caste . |
| 20 | We rarely played close to the building which , when not lit up , had something of the baleful haunted house about it . |
| 21 | Built from soft Headington stone , and blackened by the soot from college chimneys , it had something of the crumbly , grand appearance of a country house in Ireland . |
| 22 | Zeinab , who tended to see things in personal terms and who , having been brought up in her father 's house , had something of the great lady in her , took it into her head to protect her servants and rushed out into the street in a passion . |
| 23 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 24 | If only we had something of the social sense they had in Germany , we might manage to give our young people the experiences they ought to have … [ in Germany ] the rambling movement … [ has ] reached enormous proportions — 2,500 hostels provide shelter for 6d per night … . |