Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Richardson and Nisbet had a decisive edge in the line-out and Worrall , who was playing in his 20th Inter-Service match , provided a smooth link with his backs . |
| 2 | This focus on kinship had an influence on both Marx and Engels which culminated in their enthusiasm for Lewis Henry Morgan whose two principal books had a decisive effect on their later work . |
| 3 | There was mounting anxiety among the Jesuits lest Galileo had a decisive argument against the Tychonic system , which he was bound to conceal . |
| 4 | Furthermore a student who had a fragile grasp of particular concepts and skills would have a reduced chance of getting much further in a graduated test scheme . |
| 5 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |
| 6 | In retrospect the debates on the Bill had a curious air of unreality … government spokesmen often seemed to be stating simple lessons in economic theory … |
| 7 | I had a curious brush with the law myself once when I was sent by my employer to attend a day seminar on drugs to be given at the local university by a police sergeant . |
| 8 | He had a curious mixture of enthusiasm and impracticability in his approach to some everyday things , as for instance studying a most complicated recipe from one of his cookery books ( they included Mrs Beeton and Elizabeth David ) , then going out to buy not only the ingredients but equipment too . |
| 9 | While he bent over the cot , she watched him with a mischievous look ; after a little , she said she had a curious pain in her chest . |
| 10 | ‘ I had a curious strain of not attending to things which failed to grip my interest . ’ |
| 11 | He had a curious feeling of release ; other people had taken portions of his grief upon themselves , and they were expressing it on his behalf . |
| 12 | LARNE had a controversial decision by referee Leslie Irvine in the dying minutes to thank for keeping their Cup hopes alive . |
| 13 | He opened the Salzburg music festival , but encountered a protest demonstration when he had a controversial meeting with Kurt Waldheim , the Austrian President . |
| 14 | She only had a bare glimpse of the softly lit room , her struggling figure still clasped firmly in his arms , as he continued through to the en suite bathroom . |
| 15 | I had a conditional discharge for one and an absolute discharge for the other . |
| 16 | It had a Victorian charm to us , an Emily Post nicety . |
| 17 | Their perception was that we , we had a desperate shortage of staff |
| 18 | But then , of course , the club had a desperate need of publicity to keep their generous new sponsors happy . |
| 19 | When I reluctantly put him back in his shoe box , I had a desperate need to be close to ‘ Fred ’ the person . |
| 20 | Fiona , who supervised Davies for ten months , had a torrid affair with the former jailbird and became his self-confessed ‘ sex puppet . ’ |
| 21 | Bruce had a simple pendulum of the kind people employ to locate water , and which he used for diagnosis . |
| 22 | Before conversion , the building had a simple plan with a nave and aisles of six bays terminated by a shallow semi-octagonal apse at the east end . |
| 23 | We had a simple code about the immediate drill before take-off — TMPF we called it , T was throttle , M was mixture , P was pitch and F was flaps and undercarriage . |
| 24 | This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor . |
| 25 | As far as the 1975 election is concerned VUPP had a greater proportion of seats than was warranted by its first preference vote for two reasons . |
| 26 | SM3 had a greater specificity for breast and lung tumours than NCRC-11 . |
| 27 | Those in more technical areas had a greater sense of optimism because they would leave university with practical training . |
| 28 | He has not , as a source , the shrewdness of his friend Charles Greville [ q.v. ] , nor the sharp asperity of his contemporary J. W. Croker [ q.v. ] ; but he had a greater sense of humour than either . |
| 29 | Nationalised industries were first set annual cash limits under a Labour administration , but the concept was in line with Conservative Government policy to cut direct taxation and release cash so that people ( voters ) had a greater choice with what to do with their money . |
| 30 | Standards were more likely to be improved , it was said , if parents had a greater choice of schools , and the new Technology Colleges were now to be among the choices on offer for those who lived in their catchment area . |