Example sentences of "they had a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Greeks distrusted this theology , even though they had a deep respect for Augustine , because they thought that it was too anthropomorphic . |
| 2 | Living in the northern cities , they had a deep commitment to the radical wing of the Liberal Party and were overwhelmingly nonconformist in religion . |
| 3 | Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs . |
| 4 | This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor . |
| 5 | They had a mean score of 41 ( SD 16 ) , and this was used to define a normal value . |
| 6 | They had a major impact on the community , and attracted authority , wealth and prestige . |
| 7 | They had a certain prestige within the neighbourhood and influence within the world of football was part of this process of ‘ making good ’ . |
| 8 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 9 | If the benefits of large families were obvious in the Irish peasant society in which we had once had our roots , they had a certain value for us too ; they scored vital points on the council housing list . |
| 10 | They had a tiny room on the ground floor lit by a small leaded window and heated by an open fire from which as much smoke seemed to blow into the room as went up the chimney . |
| 11 | From here , they had a marvellous view over Dennistoun and beyond . |
| 12 | A host of chances went begging and they had a cracking goal from John Hartless ruled out for offside . |
| 13 | Each man had grandiose visions , Neither was able to turn them into reality but , for better or for worse , they had a lasting impact on the Middle East . |
| 14 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |
| 15 | They had a good reputation for being able to develop mechanical ideas if you briefed them well ( they had already built the TARDIS console for Peter Brachaki ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I take risks , but they 're calculated risks and I would n't take them if I did n't think they had a good chance of succeeding . |
| 17 | Even in Wessex and East Anglia the ravaged territories were not always particularly extensive at any one time , and much of the population may have reckoned that they had a good chance of escaping . |
| 18 | courses in turn , tended to select for observation those schools where they had a good relationship with the drama specialist . |
| 19 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
| 20 | Apart from collecting money from the offertory at Mass , which was always very well attended , they had a good income from what they charged individuals to have Masses said for the souls of the dead . |
| 21 | They had a good supper of eggs and milk and crunchy , fresh bread in the kitchen which was as clean as the rest of the house but more cheerful with a big range fire that threw out heat like a furnace . |
| 22 | They had a good diet of bread , margarine , jam and bacon for breakfast , roast beef , potatoes and greens , and rice pudding for lunch , and bread and jam for tea with cake once a week . |
| 23 | Despite their distinctiveness , they had a good deal in common with the other upper-class groups ; and they were an important source of loans for the growing group of entrepreneurs . |
| 24 | They had a good job in the paper erm , part of the school . |
| 25 | From the outset they had a bewildering variety of names : e.g.The London Institution for the Employment , Relief and Religious Instruction of the Adult Deaf and Dumb , The Manchester and Salford Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Association , The Yorkshire Institution for the Aid of the Adult Deaf and Dumb and The Mission to the Deaf and Dumb of the Diocese of Carlisle . |
| 26 | They had a joint display at the recent NAFD exhibition . |
| 27 | Both groups seemed equally aware that they had a joint investment in making it work , for all its faults , as well as possible . |
| 28 | When the two amalgamated in 1980 , they had a joint circulation of little more than 600,000 . |
| 29 | Griffith then took ordinary cold rods of the same glass about a millimetre thick and broke them in tension , finding that they had a tensile strength of about 25,000 p.s.i . |
| 30 | From the beginning they had a solid lack of confidence in King Edward VIII , ‘ S.B. is distinctly nervous about him , ’ Jones recorded on the first day of the new reign . ’ |