Example sentences of "that [noun] had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it meant that Swindon had more room to manoevre and Maskells determination in front of goal brought them back level . |
| 2 | It was the fact that Perk had many different coloured ribbons and every day she would select one to go with her outfit and because she had gone missing wearing a yellow dress , Gail suspected that it was Mr Elder who had taken Perk . |
| 3 | Anthony Scrivener QC , for the defence , had told the judge that Goldman had such an interest in protecting the MCC share price that it had a motive to ‘ create a story ’ about his client mounting a bear raid . |
| 4 | To some extent , the demoralisation and poverty of spirit I had encountered could be attributed to the misfortunes of geography ; to the fact that Czechoslovakia had such ruthless neighbours as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Later in life Ramsey denied that Temple had this supposed effect upon him . |
| 6 | Faha Sanchita , defending , said that Uddin had 10 years of experience in the food business and had owned and run the Lalquila with his brother for the last five years without any hygiene problems . |
| 7 | The absence of a prosperous merchant class meant that Sheffield had few fine houses or public buildings . |
| 8 | Wilson denied strongly that the reason for the campaign against the " Yellow Peril " was that seamen had little else to complain about . |
| 9 | Although many students were pushed , or encouraged , in the direction of science by schools or family , the physics students generally felt that physics had special qualities that appealed to them . |
| 10 | All Montparnasse knew that Beatrice had other lovers during her time with Modi . |
| 11 | However , in a country where the air is as likely to be alive with mosquitoes or tsetse flies as flamingos , Mr Sandy discovered that whisky had additional uses : ‘ It appeared that consumption of one 's own product was an excellent anaesthetic for all the bugs in the tummy and I was never ill once . ’ |
| 12 | As the president 's weekend guest he discovered that Ike had one thing in common with Stalin — they both expected him to watch Westerns . |
| 13 | It 's said that Beethoven had green eyes . |
| 14 | There was nothing much in the drawer beyond the cashbox ( which now contained only loose change ) , some rubber bands , a clutch of half-used ballpoint pens , a calculator , a stopwatch with no glass , and a bundle of guest passes identical to the one that Lucy had first used to enter the club . |
| 15 | The only significant difference between Lucy and a statue was that Lucy had pubic hair ; this caused them a bit of a surprise at first . |
| 16 | Nobody , no scientist anyway , would or could deny that Lucy had this propensity to an extraordinary degree , of this the Magistrate was sure . |
| 17 | Eb and Florrie Judge had one son , Thomas , and when Tom was sixteen he discovered that Saul had some hold over his father . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , there are indications that Gregory had good reason to think that the war had a religious aspect . |
| 19 | Not that Bobby had much time for sea-bathing . |
| 20 | Even a cursory glance is enough to show that Picasso had several changes of mind while he was working on the canvas . |
| 21 | First it was claimed that LEAs had inadequate information about curriculum provision in schools ; and , second , that they lacked a clear policy on the curriculum . |
| 22 | In the period 1979 — 85 , restraints imposed by Treasury policy meant that LEAs had less financial freedom . |
| 23 | The fact that Keynes had severe reservations , occasionally bordering on outright hostility , towards the applicability of econometric methods to macroeconomics was swept to one side . |
| 24 | There were businessmen who welcomed Keynesian ideas and accepted the popular wartime view that industry had strong social obligations . |
| 25 | All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then had the replacement become the instrument of his downfall . |
| 26 | France in particular had resented the fact that Hallstein had first raised the question of greater budgetary powers for the Parliament in the assembly itself rather than in the Council of Ministers . |
| 27 | There was nothing wrong in that , except that Eleanor had little idea about the conditions awaiting her on the construction site in Alaska . |
| 28 | Is Bankrupt ’ and ‘ Derek 's Hotel Tangle , ’ it was revealed that Johnstone had severe financial problems after a business venture collapsed . |
| 29 | The French Dominican , Yves Congar , perhaps the Church 's greatest prophet of the age , demonstrated with learning , vigour and clarity that Catholicism had much to learn from Protestantism and much to reform in itself . |
| 30 | But there is no sign that Hugh had any influence on his thought before his long sojourn in Lyons from May 1099 to August 1100 . |