Example sentences of "they had the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 2 | They had the desperate courage that flowed from knowing that this might be their last chance to turn the tide . |
| 3 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 4 | This , coupled with the gossip that for some time surrounded the couple , soon convinced the constables they had the right people . |
| 5 | Much emphasis was put on the importance of identifying the key decision-takers and making sure that they had the right information — much was made of the necessity of their getting a balanced picture on which to take their decisions . |
| 6 | They had the right religion , they were hard-working , and had small families which they could afford to keep in decent circumstances . |
| 7 | At a party on Monday night thrown by George Ann Carter — wife of the late Amon Carter , whose father built the Amon Carter Museum — I spied a group of blonde teenagers in Valentino who could easily , in different outfits , have been cheerleaders ; they had the regular features of the all-American girl from the heart of the USA . |
| 8 | They had the modern aluminium racks on wheels for foddering the sheep instead of the traditional , very much more silent version made from wood . |
| 9 | The Greek authorities made no effort , indeed it is not known whether they had the legal authority , to allow the post mortem examination to take place before the body was released , despite the scarcity of important evidence in a case of this kind . |
| 10 | A committee may be pardoned for insisting on hearing candidates they had never heard , but it is scarcely pardonable that they should expect one who is not a candidate , and whose qualifications they had the best opportunity of knowing , to stake his reputation in any such way . |
| 11 | Sports commentators had what many came to consider the most enviable job in the world ; they had the best seats for the best events in return for talking about what they loved anyway . |
| 12 | The NSA had naturally taken enormous trouble to keep Minaret and Shamrock secret since they were quite illegal even though they had the tacit approval of President Nixon , another Henry II Syndrome casualty ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 13 | The Americans must have felt as if he was taking revenge on them for what had happened , but they had the final laugh since most of Rank 's films were n't very good . |
| 14 | The people were cheated into believing they had the highest standard of living in Europe . |
| 15 | Another difficulty is that a third of Asian patients disappeared from contact with services , and although this was not considered statistically significant , in percentage terms they had the highest attrition rate of the three groups . |
| 16 | ‘ They had the highest scorer and won more games — but everyone seemed to enjoy the evening . |
| 17 | This was to ensure they had the correct commitment and were prepared to organize for quality . |
| 18 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 19 | Clearly , some of the needs now met by social services departments would be better met by the old people themselves if they had the financial means to preserve their own independence . |
| 20 | They had the cruel faces of born killers . |
| 21 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 22 | For this 1990 vintage they had the outstanding winemaker from Martinborough in New Zealand working there . |
| 23 | Then , they had the perfect solution to the problem of audience laughter . |
| 24 | They had the easy familiarity of two people who knew each other very well indeed , and had done for a very long time . |
| 25 | It is a measure of the fundamental instincts of Citrine and his colleagues that , where they had the greater power to centralise , it was centralisation , and not devolved responsibility , which was their watchword . |
| 26 | In Merkur Island Shipping Corporation v. Laughton the defendants were in fact given a copy of the charter of the trapped vessel before the application for an injunction , but the House of Lords held that they had the requisite knowledge independently of this . |
| 27 | They had the moral flexibility to meet shifting organizational demands and still enjoy the sleep of the just — their ability to relativize other moral imperatives whilst constantly prioritizing the pursuit of organizational goals did not make them necessarily immoral , but it did facilitate a moral flexibility others denied themselves . |
| 28 | And then they could n't be on their own because they had the elderly relatives to care for . |
| 29 | They had the finest food , the finest way of living , the most lovely gardens , the finest dress . |
| 30 | Intense negotiations continued , with the generators believing that they had the upper hand because of the Government 's tight timetable and their insistence that they should not have to sign contracts before seeing the white paper . |