Example sentences of "had [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I would have been its curator , and would have had the top floor to myself ’ . |
| 5 | Compliance with the EEC Directive , following pressure from the United States , has had the opposite effect to that intended ; it has significantly reduced protection in the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | And here , thought Dalgliesh , he had had the larger vestry to himself . |
| 7 | Had he had the same nightmare at any other time , it might have had no particular meaning to him at all . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had a 50-year addiction to The Northern Echo , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The general subordination of the British state to the interests of civil society has limited the relative autonomy of state groups , although they have had a certain freedom to ‘ navigate ’ between the competing demands of different groups and classes , for example in the realm of industrial relations ( Edwards 1986 : 168–72 ) . |
| 10 | But perhaps the joke had had a serious point to it too , or at any rate a serious side-effect : it had enabled Hilda to get her side of the story over to posterity . |
| 11 | Feminism has had a complex relation to psychoanalysis . |
| 12 | In the past , Saucony has always had a low-key approach to cutting edge technology . |
| 13 | Much academic political sociology has had a similar relation to political life . |
| 14 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 15 | ‘ Cologne may have had a poor start to the season , but they are typically disciplined like all German sides and will play as they are told to play by their coach . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've always had a deplorable tendency to exhibitionism , ’ Guy agreed , his deep voice full of laughter . |
| 17 | She 'd always had a passionate side to her nature , she thought , suddenly making sense of her reactions to life . |
| 18 | Perhaps we will even be able to count on the support of Conservatives who have had a sudden conversion to freedom to undertake the activities of one 's choice in the countryside overriding all issues including wanton cruelty . |
| 19 | Over the years their percentage of television time has had a direct correlation to the increase in prize-money . |
| 20 | Rather than view the Sancton-Baston pottery as the products of individual potters or workshops ( Myres 1969 ; 1977 ) , the fact that five sets of dies were cut to produce a minimum of nine vessels suggests that the decoration of the pottery may have had a totemic significance to individual families . |
| 21 | And B T so and Imperial who 's had a different experience to you after a takeover bid from a new employer clearly wants a legal framework , steel braces put within Trust Law to make it much more clear where power lies in th the operati operation of the trust and that possibly one one of those steel braces would the law would relate on h who could get their hands on the surplus and in what conditions . |
| 22 | Peter Townsend has had a life-long commitment to the needs of the poor and the powerless , and his studies of the elderly ( 1957 ) and the poor ( 1979 ) are the result of that commitment . |
| 23 | Burroughs 's influence on left-field rock culture is , of course , incalculable and , like some seedy literary Camelot , Tangier has had a mythical significance to Beat Generation acolytes since he , Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso briefly congregated there in the Fifties , in the vicinity of the great Paul Bowles . |
| 24 | Municipal socialism in Britain had always had a puritanical element to it , and debates about sexual choice were no part of this tradition . |
| 25 | The face has always had a dialectical relationship to art and , today perhaps , this is stronger than ever as we view the face — in portraiture — with a scepticism characteristic of our age and as we witness the convergence of popular culture and fine art in so many spheres . |
| 26 | For instance , interactionists point to the evidence in the Kinsey report on sexual behaviour that over one-third of male adults have had a homosexual experience to the point of orgasm , and that only one in twenty goes on to adopt a continuing homosexual role . |
| 27 | He appears not to have had a ready answer to this question ! |
| 28 | Donnison and Soto point out that the ‘ establishment ’ in Britain has always had a dismissive attitude to the third category . |
| 29 | ‘ Most are people who previously had a bad reaction to stings from wasps or bees . |
| 30 | He may well , though , have had a magnetic side to his personality , to be able to rise to such a high position in opposition circles . |