Example sentences of "the [noun] have [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The case had first to be heard in the court of the seneschal of Aquitaine , or ‘ court of Gascony ’ as it was entitled . |
2 | At this stage the jargon is an obstacle in that anyone wishing to find out about the field has first to interpret the jargon . |
3 | In terms of legal status the clerk had first of all the right to have his case tried only before a church court — the " privilege of the forum " . |
4 | It had been five years since the President had last presented the awards for gallantry and to voluntary workers , and in his opening remarks he reflected that in that time over 7,600 lives had been saved , 180 new boats built and lifeboat technology had advanced by leaps and bounds . |
5 | Wearside golf club played host to their fellow centurians City of Newcastle golf club last weekend 98 years since the club had first contested a game . |
6 | Other rumours doing the rounds have Next preparing to announce staff layoffs and contemplating the closure of its state-of-the-art manufacturing plant . |
7 | The proposed date of entry is November 1988 , still feasible because the developer continued with early work because , although the Council had first option on the new building , there were other potential clients also . |
8 | When the Demidovs had first built mines and smelting works in the hills , they had been fortified and special permission was obtained from the government for the industrialists to hire a private army for protection . |
9 | Behind her the two seats were empty , a troublous reminder of where Eddie and Laura had sat side by side when the coach had first set off from Heathrow Airport … had first arrived at the eastern outskirts of Oxford . |
10 | The caucus had first emerged in Februry as a pressure group within the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) . |
11 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
12 | If only she 'd had the courage to tell him she wanted to end their relationship when the cracks had first started to appear . |
13 | This week the Community had second thoughts . |
14 | To study this problem , the investigators have first to develop small models for a small number of key countries , and then to simulate different strategies with which they might or might not manage to cooperate . |
15 | The individuals had first to establish that the Trusteeship Agreement gave them standing as against the trusteeship territory . |
16 | Left was away from the place the Mobile had last seen him , away from Neptune Court . |
17 | In their 1979 survey of secondary schools in England and Wales , the HMI had first pointed to what they called ‘ evidence of insufficient match in many schools between the qualification and experience of teachers and the work they are undertaking ’ . |
18 | The sword had first been conferred in 823 : it was the symbol of the emperor 's role as defender of the Church , to maintain justice and wipe out iniquity . |
19 | Unlike the sovereign , who simply minted more coin , the banks have first to persuade us to take up the credit they wish to create . |
20 | An audio-tape recording in which the exercises are described can be a useful adjunct to teaching the patient this method , provided the therapist has first demonstrated the procedure to the patient , and the technique has been learned adequately . |
21 | It was during that holiday that the notion had first come to Melissa of setting a novel in the region . |
22 | But analysts pointed out that the credit had first been announced in the second quarter of last year . |
23 | The text is entered directly from the keyboard having first selected its position between the staves with the mouse pointer . |
24 | This head felt that the re-expression and development of ideas which IT made possible allowed every pupil the chance to have second thoughts . |
25 | The magazine had first taken note of him in his Student whizz-kid incarnation , when Branson had appeared in a BBC documentary entitled Men of the Future . |
26 | Unfortunately the Reichsführer had second thoughts when told no less than 800,000 Russians had volunteered for service : he eventually authorised the creation of just two divisions . |
27 | In order to drive home the point that the messianic Spirit , the Spirit of the days of salvation , was really available to all believers , the Spirit had first of all to inspire Peter with his vision of the unclean animals in the sheet which were intended for him to eat , and then to apply that vision to a Gentile officer whose men were at that very moment waiting in the courtyard for Peter to accompany them to Cornelius so that he might receive the good news of Jesus . |
28 | concerned the other day that the government had second thoughts on some of the proposals there and I hope that they will reconsider . |
29 | The scandal had first come to light in mid-January when officers of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) had uncovered 12 new T-72 battle tanks in crates on board a freight train at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk , concealed as part of a shipment of scrap metal intended for export . |
30 | The controls had first been installed in 1963 . |