Example sentences of "the [noun pl] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since shareholders controlled the company they should be entitled to the profits and the managers obliged to act in their interests , for this ensured that the shareholders had the incentive to exploit wealth-maximizing opportunities . |
| 2 | Even if the courts had the resources to perform the first of these tasks , the latter involves value judgments of a kind inappropriate to the judicial function . |
| 3 | The Germans had the Berlin Wall to dance on , the British had the Wembley pitch ; both events were part of the same great story of liberation . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the Germans had the advantage , for the British ships , silhouetted against the western sky , made ideal targets and , shortly after 16.20 , the battle-cruiser Queen Mary was hit by a salvo and also sank . |
| 5 | Bombing was already an established function of airpower ( as early as September 1914 German Taube aircraft had bombed Paris ) , and the Germans had the machines available . |
| 6 | And , now , crumbling in decay , over laden with a desolate burden of humanity , the houses had the look of queuing for a great knacker 's yard , of eagerly embracing the extinction of their former grandeur , of offering themselves to ruin with an abandonment almost luxurious . |
| 7 | The Lord Chief Justice had said then that it would be wrong for it to appear that the proposals had the backing of the judges or that they had had any hand in their preparation ; and that it was essential that the judges remained at arm 's length . |
| 8 | Yet , as we have seen , the skilled behaviour they used in the cases had the opposite effect . |
| 9 | Thus , in the case of Parchment , the police committed what would have been a number of breaches of the rules had the accused been in the police station , but , simply because the supposed infractions had taken place before his arrival , the crown court held that nothing wrongful had occurred . |
| 10 | The merchants had the cash , but the weakening aristocracy held on to the reins of government . |
| 11 | Roddy Neill , the Clydesdale Bank 's business sector manager , said the improvements had the bank 's full support . |
| 12 | In 1864 , the Confederates had the idea of making torpedoes to look like lumps of coal . |
| 13 | Thereafter , the authorities had the evidence from the JCP 's own objectives to justify the suppression and extinction of opposition by labelling it Marxist . |
| 14 | The freedom thus offered allowed his ideas to expand intuitively and this could hardly be more gripping than in the concluding Chacony — a monumental structure of which the performers had the measure . |
| 15 | Increasingly it becomes clear that her plight was the result of her poor health ; in addition to the regular help she was receiving , the overseers had the generosity to pay her various ad hoc amounts as the need arose , ‘ On acct. being sick ’ . |
| 16 | No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference . |
| 17 | The drivers had the hardest job , concentrating on holding their positions and keeping out of the way of the front and rear gunners . |
| 18 | At an awards ceremony at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1974 he castigated those people ‘ who would like to make polytechnics exactly like universities ’ , and who ignored the fact that the polytechnics had the distinctive feature of not only pursuing knowledge for its own sake , but also treating the acquisition of knowledge as ‘ never far removed from its application ’ — and constructing courses of study accordingly . |
| 19 | When whales were still plentiful , the king and the clergy had the right to what was , very literally , their cut ; in the case of the canons of Bayonne , to the for some reason much prized tongue . |
| 20 | This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts had the system been used interactively , as described below . |
| 21 | Much of the past , indeed , survived in the special traditions and interests of soldiers and although the outstanding example was Germany , as the Zabern incident was to show ( below , p. 212 ) , it was recognized even in Great Britain that the Guards had the privilege of avoiding the duller overseas stations . |
| 22 | Even though he had accepted general responsibility for his company 's operations , and would probably have agreed to print the books had the decision been referred to him , he could not be convicted unless he had been given specific notice of the offensive material . |
| 23 | At least the Scots had the last word . |
| 24 | Jeffrey — who was watched by most of his sevens charges — spent some of the tie on the wing , but there was a customary rumbustious downing of Cassell , and the scriptwriters had the perfect finale as he notched the Scots ’ sole try , courtesy of a pass from his ‘ not so old ’ back-row pal , Finlay Calder . |
| 25 | The words had the ring of preacher 's rhetoric . |
| 26 | The pens had the ordinary steel nibs and it was essential that they had just the right amount of ink on them or blots resulted . |
| 27 | The judges had the difficult task of choosing a winner from the 340 entries , but in the end the first prize , a bronze mounted otter , went to 10-year-old Helen Laughton from Cheadle , Cheshire . |
| 28 | They had no sooner skidded to a halt , than the crews had the hoses run out and were training their jets on the leaping flames . |
| 29 | The French psychiatrist Pierre Deniker , records that a substance closely related to promethazine and later known as chlorpromazine was synthesized in 1950 and ‘ would have remained on the shelves had the surgeon and physiologist Henri Laborit not asked the manufacturer for a drug with central effects stronger than those of promethazine ’ . |
| 30 | In the 1983 election , more electors thought the Conservatives had the better policies than actually voted for the party . |