Example sentences of "had [art] [noun] of some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Stein had the backing of some thoughtful advisers , and tried hard to push serious economic and fiscal issues higher up the electoral agenda . |
| 2 | Mr Coates appears to have carried the can for a strategy that had the enthusiasm of some of those at the top of Barclays Bank , as well as of David Band , BZW 's chief executive , and of Sir Martin , who is also a deputy chairman of the parent bank . |
| 3 | Dharsono , who had been released from prison in September 1990 after serving over four years of a seven-year sentence for subversion [ see p. 37715 ] , said that the FPPS had the support of some 70 leading intellectuals and dissidents . |
| 4 | Sometimes the photographs seemed exactly the same , or so it appeared until , somewhere in the frame , I would realise that a rock had rolled a few feet or yards , a tree was missing , a scarp subtly altered , and one had the sense of some immensely leisured , tranquil calibration of infinity . |
| 5 | Had the advice of some hon. Members been followed over the years , we might now be in a very exposed position . |
| 6 | Mirabilis looked like a magician , Foreman had the appearance of some village parson in his dark fustian jacket , hose and soft felt slippers . |
| 7 | Almost half of the county 's 172 parishes had a school of some kind by 1807 , including almost all of those with a population of a thousand or more . |
| 8 | Everyone had a friend of some sort . |
| 9 | Even her brothers were kind , though embarrassed and Clara , as she sat there picking endlessly at the fringe of the tablecloth , had a vision of some other world where violent emotion could be a thing of beauty , where even tears could be admitted and not ignored , where good taste in tomb stones consisted not in cheap restrained economy of design , fabric , and word , but of marble angels wildly grieving . |
| 10 | Abu Musa had a population of some 700 UAE citizens . |
| 11 | ‘ I had a gift of some wine . ’ |