Example sentences of "had [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the conference of the Institute of Housing at Harrogate in 1985 , Mr. Banham praised the authority of the city of which I had the privilege to be leader , describing it as the most efficient authority in Britain . |
| 2 | From all accounts he did n't sound as if he had the spunk to be a murderer . |
| 3 | ‘ Big Black had the opportunity to be on several major labels . |
| 4 | They could claim that they never had the opportunity to be successful whereas those who filled the top jobs owed their position to their relatives , friends and the advantages of birth . |
| 5 | Despite that , Martha and I had a wonderful wedding , and were very grateful that when other families were separated , we had the opportunity to be together . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think it would be different if we had the opportunity to be together every night ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's true that I had the opportunity to be alone in the office , and we both know that I was angry and said a lot of things in the heat of the moment … but would I really be this vindictive ? ’ |
| 8 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 9 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Jimmy Gibson said Northern Ireland people had the tendency to ‘ complain with a smile ’ . |
| 11 | He said that I had the ability to be not only Britain 's top sprinter but also number one in Europe . |
| 12 | In church growth terms , he had the ability to ‘ identify , recruit , train , deploy , monitor and nurture leaders ’ ! |
| 13 | But again I you know I always had the ability to er to know , to scrape by |
| 14 | At least she had the villa to herself to be miserable in . |
| 15 | People were more sedentary then , and he had the field to himself , no one having done it before . |
| 16 | Nobody else was importing much beyond a few bottles of sweet red sparkling stuff from Crimea , so he had the field to himself . |
| 17 | For years , ‘ Laura Ashley ’ had the field to themselves . |
| 18 | ‘ We had the field to ourselves for 14 years , and went through the peak of the market in 1989–90 . |
| 19 | Had the fortune to be honoured whilst living |
| 20 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 21 | they had the money to commercially run them , |
| 22 | And also he doubted whether she had the intelligence to be so devious . |
| 23 | And keep it warm and then er if you had er Then you had the chickens to you had to set the clucking hens and and bring out as many chickens as you could . |
| 24 | Is n't it the case that Palmerston when he was on his death bed had the clause to the Belgian treaty read to him to cheer him up . |
| 25 | The British raiders had the race to themselves from the final turn as Jodami overhauled his chief rival in an exciting duel that was only decided on the line . |
| 26 | But being a Tory politician , he still had the gall to be interviewed on TV and claim credit for his actions . |
| 27 | He took me straight to the Rembrandt and talked about it , without lowering his voice , and I had the smallness to be embarrassed because some other people there stared at us . |
| 28 | Verdun was a watershed in World War I : before it , all were confident that victory was attainable , albeit with great sacrifice ; after it there was a ghastly realization that no one had the solution to the war . |
| 29 | Triumphantly he told the master of the horse that he had the solution to everything " in my back pocket . " |
| 30 | To my astonishment the words came flooding back , and for some ten minutes , while the train lay cocooned in a web of silence and darkness , I continued my singing , grateful that I had the compartment to myself . |