Example sentences of "had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Richardson and Nisbet had a decisive edge in the line-out and Worrall , who was playing in his 20th Inter-Service match , provided a smooth link with his backs . |
| 2 | Visually and socially the local authority houses also had a decisive impact . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was mounting anxiety among the Jesuits lest Galileo had a decisive argument against the Tychonic system , which he was bound to conceal . |
| 5 | Furthermore a student who had a fragile grasp of particular concepts and skills would have a reduced chance of getting much further in a graduated test scheme . |
| 6 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |
| 7 | It had a curious history , for it miraculously survived the destruction of the Tuileries and turned up at Chislehurst in 1871 by unknown means . |
| 8 | In retrospect the debates on the Bill had a curious air of unreality … government spokesmen often seemed to be stating simple lessons in economic theory … |
| 9 | I had a curious brush with the law myself once when I was sent by my employer to attend a day seminar on drugs to be given at the local university by a police sergeant . |
| 10 | We had a curious patient , an English nursing officer working in Nigeria , who had chylous urine but no evidence of filarial infection . |
| 11 | It had a curious brass handle , embossed with leaves and fruit . |
| 12 | He had a curious mixture of enthusiasm and impracticability in his approach to some everyday things , as for instance studying a most complicated recipe from one of his cookery books ( they included Mrs Beeton and Elizabeth David ) , then going out to buy not only the ingredients but equipment too . |
| 13 | While he bent over the cot , she watched him with a mischievous look ; after a little , she said she had a curious pain in her chest . |
| 14 | ‘ I had a curious strain of not attending to things which failed to grip my interest . ’ |
| 15 | He had a curious feeling of release ; other people had taken portions of his grief upon themselves , and they were expressing it on his behalf . |
| 16 | She had a curious feeling that greater good fortune would yet be hers , that she was destined for high places . |
| 17 | The voice had a curious quality , husky and high-pitched as if uncertain whether it was a light tenor or a throaty mezzo-soprano . |
| 18 | LARNE had a controversial decision by referee Leslie Irvine in the dying minutes to thank for keeping their Cup hopes alive . |
| 19 | He opened the Salzburg music festival , but encountered a protest demonstration when he had a controversial meeting with Kurt Waldheim , the Austrian President . |
| 20 | She only had a bare glimpse of the softly lit room , her struggling figure still clasped firmly in his arms , as he continued through to the en suite bathroom . |
| 21 | Skinner , 60 , had a 14,120 majority last time and seems unassailable . |
| 22 | The place had a seedy atmosphere totally out of keeping with Angy 's flower-like freshness . |
| 23 | Golf and tennis had an exclusive image ( good for selling cars ) but snooker , the most popular indoor sport , had a seedy side which discouraged advertisers . |
| 24 | Still , the dream had felt so real that he could n't resist ringing her from the office to ask if she had a sixteen-year-old sister he could meet . |
| 25 | He was fond of music , had a tolerable voice , and sang with taste . ’ |
| 26 | Patients were classified into three groups : ( a ) ‘ probable ’ Alzheimer 's disease if they met the clinical criteria and had a Hachinski score less than 5 ; ( b ) ‘ broad ’ Alzheimer 's disease defined after reclassification of all presenile patients by discriminant analysis ( this group included all probable Alzheimer 's disease ) ; and ( c ) multi-infarct dementia — a definite history of at least one cerebrovascular accident and a Hachinski score greater than 6 . |
| 27 | I had a conditional discharge for one and an absolute discharge for the other . |
| 28 | She had a belted trench coat over her fairy queen outfit . |
| 29 | Unusually , it had a rechargeable NiCad battery fitted . |
| 30 | Gedge had a straight-forward upbringing , but one with a fair degree of discipline . |