Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Under the electoral system of 1918 , the Unionists had a minimum vote of at least 38 per cent of the electorate , and this would bring at least 250 seats in a parliament of 615 ; in a political world of three parties this almost guaranteed that no other party would govern alone and that the Unionists would usually have a majority . |
| 32 | Sadly , it already had a dented side with a broken window . |
| 33 | ‘ Maxwell Joseph , who was chairman of GrandMet , had a powerful influence on my life , ’ Peter Webber says . |
| 34 | Fabians continued to dominate the study of social policy throughout the 1950s and 1960s , developing a welfare model which had a powerful influence on policy-makers and contributed to a shared perspective between academics , civil servants and politicians on the role of the state in social policy . |
| 35 | Fishing in deep water Stephano had a powerful run on his mackerel bait and fought a shark for over three quarters of an hour without moving it off the bottom . |
| 36 | Niki was lucky when he began at Ferrari in that he had a powerful intermediary in Luca Montezemolo , a gentleman in the Italian style , enormously suave , even-tempered , civilized and amiable . |
| 37 | In the 1960s it was also argued that government departments dealing with domestic questions should be decentralized so that civil servants who had a powerful voice in matters of economic planning could be kept in touch with regional and local interests . |
| 38 | Kuwait in particular , with its vigorous political and commercial life , had a powerful voice in GCC affairs . |
| 39 | He had a powerful aversion to climbing up rigging . ’ |
| 40 | But it was also apparent that by taking control of the food supply the government had a powerful weapon against the movement — one that it used without hesitation . |
| 41 | However , Bland 's nightmare vision had a powerful effect on the government 's thinking and on public opinion . |
| 42 | Given that ( irrationally and indefensibly , the reader must conclude ) Local Education Authorities varied wildly among themselves and within themselves in the scale of grammar-school provision , that variation had a powerful effect upon the preparation of the whole age group staying on at school to the age of seventeen . |
| 43 | That most terrible of the stories of divine punishment out of all mortal proportion to the offence appears often in the fifth century , like the punishment of Act aeon , and evidently had a powerful meaning for the time . |
| 44 | His economic populism had a powerful appeal to white working-class and middle-class voters , who had often viewed the Democrats as too ready to promote race-based liberalism at their expense in recent years . |
| 45 | There is , however , one major development which had a powerful impact on the portfolio and has considerable implications for the economy , namely the events that started on Wednesday 16th September , when the base rates went up from 10% to 12% to 15% and then back to 12% to 10% , all in the space of 24 hours . |
| 46 | America had a powerful impact upon Applegarth . |
| 47 | Most machine-guns had a cyclic rate of fire of 500–600rpm , which necessitated a great number of ammunition carriers . |
| 48 | Every piece of evidence that I have seen shows that the service that is now being delivered is substantially better than anything that was ever done , not least when we last had a Labour Government in office delivering those services . |
| 49 | He was only interested in making recordings and he had a legal base in Switzerland , which also helped him avoid a lot of problems . |
| 50 | The basis of Mr Bartlett 's argument was that NGC had a legal obligation under the 1989 Electricity Act to link power from generators into the grid system . |
| 51 | The children themselves were not present at the Hearing , as they had a legal obligation to be . |
| 52 | The Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 created the Supplementary Benefits Commission ( SBC ) to administer the supplementary benefit scheme and for the first time those whose resources did not meet their requirements had a legal entitlement to the payment of benefit . |
| 53 | He believed on those grounds that he had a legal right to the tyres . |
| 54 | The court held that the facts did not constitute robbery because the accused was not dishonest , because he thought he had a legal right to the money ( see the discussion of s.2(1) ( a ) above ) . |
| 55 | In Edwin Hill & Partners v. First National Finance Corporation a finance company which had a legal charge over B 's property to secure a loan came to an arrangement with B whereby they would develop the property themselves rather than exercise their power of sale under the charge . |
| 56 | Cotter 's erratic career had a close bearing upon the later history of the Sailors and Firemen . |
| 57 | Britain had a close affinity with the liberal-democratic and colonial states on the Continent , to whom she provided large-scale military and economic aid after the war . |
| 58 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 59 | He had a close look at Shearer in Saturday 's match at Blackburn , and added : ‘ He 's the sort of player that makes you want to get the ball to him as many times as possible . |
| 60 | When I had a close look at it , I saw that the inside of its mouth , which should have been pink , was very pale and frothing . |