Example sentences of "had [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly we must hope that the government in its final response will take the arguments put forward by Alvey somewhat further ; after all it has had the best part of six months to consider them . |
| 2 | But they 've already had the best part of a week in which to forget . ’ |
| 3 | The only journalism which I have done regularly is with the NI which is the group with which I have had the best understanding during my stay in Europe . |
| 4 | We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later . |
| 5 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 6 | But the SA Rugby Board has traditionally had the major slice of South Africa 's rugby cake , built as this has been on white wealth , sponsorship , patronage , assets , expertise , media coverage and the rest . |
| 7 | The college has had the heart-rending task of choosing between applications from equally deserving cases . |
| 8 | We 've had the odd difference of opinion , while respecting the other 's point of view . |
| 9 | In the Neolithic period , totalitarian states emerged as a result of the reappearance of profound inequalities made possible by the acquisition of agricultural surpluses , whereas in the modern epoch most of the comparable states emerged out of periods of revolution and upheaval constituted mainly by a struggle for equality — a fact that has had the odd consequence of leaving all modern police states with official ideologies strongly committed to a non-existent freedom and egalitarianism for their citizens . |
| 10 | Well , Britain is the country which ought to have had the proletarian revolution before any other . |
| 11 | I HAVE always had the highest regard for Rugby League 's board of directors — until their recent decision to restore the two-division set-up . |
| 12 | This means that claims by UK citizens under the Convention must always be pursued to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to obtain judgment , with the result that the UK has had the highest number of judgments made against it by the European Court of Human Rights for one or more violations of the Convention 's terms . |
| 13 | This chapter explores why external change in the international political economy has had the uneven impact on industries we showed in the previous chapter . |
| 14 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 15 | I have had the good fortune to be in Bruges when the city has had a festival and in Ghent for the same sort of thing . |
| 16 | The hostility to alleged traitors took extreme form in the murders of Sudbury , Hales and Cavendish , and equally strong was the dislike of the King 's uncle , John of Gaunt — his palace of the Savoy was burned down ( although it is uncertain whether the Kentishmen or the Londoners played the leading part in this ) and he would probably have shared the fate of Sudbury and the others if he had not had the good fortune to be in the North negotiating with the Scots . |
| 17 | The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair . |
| 18 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 19 | I 've had the first signs of her asking where I go , what I do . |
| 20 | In a letter of 17 August 1921 to his wife he writes that ‘ I have had the first estimates for dolls ' house furniture : 13 State frames — £50 , and have sent it to Mrs Marshall Field . |
| 21 | He says thousands of families have already been thrown into chaos and we 've had the first suicide as a result of the operations of the Child Support Agency . |
| 22 | I am pleased to be able to report to the hon. Gentleman that we have just had the first results of the monitoring arrangements for the implementation of community care and we are impressed with the practical schemes already being advanced to ensure that the frail and vulnerable , and particularly the chronically sick and disabled , receive the support that they need . |
| 23 | The south east has had the sharpest rise in failures — up 54.7 per cent . |
| 24 | Although studies of miscarriage from a broadly sociological perspective have been undertaken in Great Britain , none have had the specific focus of this study . |
| 25 | Because I 'd had the grand advice from my grandma . |
| 26 | I 've had the occasional boyfriend in the past , and I 'm sure you 've done the same sort of thing . |
| 27 | We 've had the occasional report of undesirable characters lurking round the hospital . |
| 28 | We have had the smallest number of new home completions in the city since 1982-83 . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ I have n't had the remotest enquiry for any of my players , whether on the list or not , but that does n't surprise me . |
| 30 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |