Example sentences of "had an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As always , we had an outline of the man 's life , not its weight , density , complexity . |
2 | The arguments invoked by Oresme to spin the earth had an integrity of their own . |
3 | The study of nature had an integrity of its own , as one sought to uncover the laws that governed the clockwork . |
4 | Since all the officers had been required to learn Morse code , each plane had an officer in the tail . |
5 | This focus on kinship had an influence on both Marx and Engels which culminated in their enthusiasm for Lewis Henry Morgan whose two principal books had a decisive effect on their later work . |
6 | This burnt down in 1791 but had a dramatic effect on milling in London and clearly had an influence on the Gloucester Docks scheme . |
7 | Ninety percent of the drivers reported that passengers had an influence on their driving . |
8 | The works of Trubar and his contemporaries were rediscovered and had an influence on such figures in the Yugoslav renaissance as Kopitar and Vuk Karadžić . |
9 | Erm had an influence on on credit . |
10 | They actually said then that they contr that they had an influence on how on the cost and where they bought it from . |
11 | The Futurists , however , undoubtedly had an influence on the terminology of French painting and literature , and the bewildering mass of ‘ isms ’ springing up in 1913 and 1914 reflects also some of the spiritual restlessness which Futurism did so much to engender . |
12 | Booth 's survey also had an influence on a similar movement in the United States , though its roots go back to the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of small surveys on the " dangerous classes " were undertaken . |
13 | Partisanship took second place when it had an influence at all , and often it did not . |
14 | He had an outlet for his temper at the beginning of a new day . |
15 | Now , at the age of twenty-six , she travelled widely , searching out hidden gems , secure in the knowledge that she had an outlet for them with the clientele she had built up . |
16 | The Builder had an editorial on 19th February which contained extracts from a letter from Scott reasserting that his design was better lit , as convenient and no more expensive than a classical design , and it commented that Scott 's opponents did not understand that he was not intending to reproduce old forms rigidly and he was only willing to introduce ‘ the refinements and inventions of our own day ’ . |
17 | We had an asset in the Cadbury brand , so we spread it across biscuits , cakes and a range of other products . |
18 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
19 | Lambing time is even more important because lambs are a cash crop and nobody ever had an abundance of that . |
20 | At that time Thessaly , like Boiotia and Sparta-Messenia , had an abundance of agricultural land , plenty of horses and few towns , that is , little opportunity for peasants to exchange grumbles and for subversive foreign notions to penetrate . |
21 | To Joyce 's eyes it seemed she " Always had an abundance of confidence . |
22 | Not as well , either , if last week 's evidence is to be believed — they lacked pace and invention , though had an abundance of straight runners with the habitual powerful frames , so Scotland will be stretched . |
23 | Whereas the Victorians had an aversion to the sun , and sometimes faced new houses to the north , the well-off Edwardians worshipped it . |
24 | She was chilly and irritable , liked tasty foods and vinegar , and had an aversion to fat , meat and milk . |
25 | Her mother felt that Susan had an aversion to the sight and smell of her motions . |
26 | His cousin , she was quickly realising , though , was a man who had an aversion to answering any but selected questions . |
27 | He had an aversion for proper names , employing instead a number of poetic circumlocutions . |
28 | William Baten of Long Crendon had an assessment of 3s. , and bequeathed his wife 5¼ acres of arable ground . |
29 | He had an appetite for organization very rare in a politician . |
30 | Peggy looked at her mother , and smiling , answered , ‘ Well , you should know , Mam ; she always had an appetite after a fainting fit . |