Example sentences of "had the [adj] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | the magazine had the final say on the format of the finished pattern , so I found myself having to pass over things like ‘ Take off on a hand knitting needle ’ when I knew full well that it would be much easier to ‘ take off on waster yarn ’ . |
| 2 | In all my time here I ‘ ve had the final say on the many , many , decisions which concerned playing matters . |
| 3 | She had the joint X-rayed on Wednesday night and was somewhat relieved to learn that it was merely a bad case of bruising . |
| 4 | Wall Street 's decline had the usual effect on the drug sector , with Glaxo falling 9 to 747p and SmithKline Beecham ‘ A ’ off 22 at 830p . |
| 5 | He had the intrusive effect on the class predicted by AT3 in our initial discussion . |
| 6 | By the eighteenth century the trade had the total monopoly on the provision of coffins . |
| 7 | This provides a contrast with many of the English papers which had the occasional question on ‘ Discuss Rossetti's/Dickens's/Browning's representation of women ’ , but never had anything on an author 's representation of men . |
| 8 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 9 | In 1973 the UK had the smallest dependence on EC markets of any of the nine EC members , and this was still the case ten years later . |
| 10 | Compared to all the other seven departments the ‘ stagnated ’ had the lowest score on all dimensions except ‘ challenge ’ ( where it was in the middle ) and ‘ conflicts ’ ( where it had the highest score ) . |
| 11 | There are two people Mario always said had the deepest influence on his life in motor sport . |
| 12 | DEC had the prime position on the Show floor , a spot which has now been handed down to IBM . |
| 13 | Had the issue been at par ( i.e. had the real return on outstanding amounts of this stock been exactly 2 ½%),; it would have been issued at a price determined by the RPI eight months earlier in January 1991 . |
| 14 | Tala-Tala , he explained , five miles up the road , had the first church on Koraloona because it was built by the first missionaries to arrive on the island . |
| 15 | It was commonly held that the first lord to whom he had sworn fealty had the first call on his service ; but in some cases it was held that the richest fief gave the vassal his strongest obligation ; or again , that it depended on the circumstances , on which lord had the greatest need — a lord must be helped if he was fighting in self-defence , but his claim was less if he was fighting in someone else 's defence ; or the vassal might be expected to fight on both sides , that is to say , to provide troops for both armies . |
| 16 | This showed that health visitors had the greatest influence on social workers . |
| 17 | Adjustment for birth weight had the greatest effect on the perinatal mortality rates due to immaturity : the rate among women who were booked at general practitioner units and were delivered at hospital 1 fell from 3.6 to 1.0 . |
| 18 | The bowel site had the greatest effect on crypt cell production ( ileum>caecum>distal colon ) . |
| 19 | This meant that the district officer became increasingly isolated from the activities that often had the greatest impact on — and the greatest importance for — his district . |
| 20 | The electric bill used to be so high because we had the electric fire on all the time and we used to leave the oven on as well . |
| 21 | Shine On 's owner was the man who had the big gamble on Pendero , and Jack Butler , the bookie , was the one who slipped me the drug . |
| 22 | The resulting sensations had the strangest effect on her thinking processes , she discovered . |
| 23 | If October were to bring its usual weather , as indicated by the records , and as it had the previous year on the Somme , conditions would be almost beyond endurance and attack impossible . |
| 24 | Richie Collins had an unfair advantage : he had the Holy Ghost on his side . |
| 25 | Indeed , this had not gone unnoticed by those on the governing body as one person remarked that she ‘ had the clenched fist on the side of the car ’ although this had not been mentioned at the interview . |
| 26 | One competitor who made a lot of friends was Yuji Hirayama , who had the biggest grin on display and dragged an outrageous rest in the semi final . |
| 27 | In the large conurbations it was the boroughs that had the biggest impact on everyday life : outside these areas the counties mattered far more . |
| 28 | Paradoxically , it had the opposite effect on Grant . |
| 29 | It was perfectly understood that no outer differences between us , however great , had the slightest bearing on this shared moment of enchantment together , at play in the sunlit waters . |
| 30 | Michael Bates , standing in Langbaurgh , said his other son had the same operation on the NHS and that there was little difference between the two . |