Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] had [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oslo : The government 's 1990 budget proposals had little effect , with the index slipping 2.39 to 515.81 in moderate trade . |
| 2 | And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language . |
| 3 | No prior drug therapy had that effect and neither had any previous course of ECT . |
| 4 | Despite their high staff turnover DPR had little to fear from former employees . |
| 5 | The Roof Gardens had some claim to being a London landmark . |
| 6 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 7 | Thus , we do not think that protein deprivation had any effect on CD4 counts . |
| 8 | The gravel sweep had more sand than gravel on it and the places which vehicles did not pass over were weedy . |
| 9 | This meant that programme managers had little incentive to adapt their expenditures in response to increasing relative costs , except m short term response to the annual cash limits . |
| 10 | This meant that programme managers had little incentive to adapt their expenditures in response to increasing relative costs , except in the short term in response to the annual cash limits . |
| 11 | Jim was of the opinion that the parrot ploy had some merit , mentioning a woman with one that spoke a very interesting variety of English . |
| 12 | Team Costa Rica were openly demoralised and reduced to tears by their disqualification and Cafe Britt had any chance of success stolen from them with the retirement of an injured team member . |
| 13 | The five paramilitary officers from the Rathcoole district had each an unblemished record as a law-abiding citizen . |
| 14 | Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson . |
| 15 | Some people thought that the care programme approach had little to add to existing services except paperwork . |
| 16 | This chapter will therefore examine also whether the action project had any effect upon cognitive impairment ( Did it help to delay deterioration , or even improve , mental state ? ) ; whether dementia sufferers in the action project expressed less worry , sadness , loneliness than those in the control samples ; whether the project helped people to maintain their capacity to cope with certain tasks or activities of daily living ; and finally whether it succeeded in obtaining more of other community services for its clients than were obtained by those in the control sample ( eg more home help , meals-on-wheels , day care , home nursing , and so on ) . |
| 17 | But the car parks had few . |
| 18 | By the mid-point of the Minoan civilization 's development , the seal makers had some quite sophisticated tools at their disposal : cutting wheels , fast-twirling drills and gravers of bronze . |
| 19 | Chris was plagued by a dry ticklish cough which kept him ( and Carolyn ) awake for the best part of three nights , and on which the cough medicine had little effect . |
| 20 | He had loaned five thousand pounds to Phillip Wreck , one of the most notorious villains in Paddington , and in Joe 's mind Michael had more chance of getting the Pope 's inside leg measurement than he had of getting that money back . |
| 21 | In the event , the decision proved premature and the UK equity market had another 11% appreciation ahead of it to the end of 1992 . |
| 22 | Equal-span wings were of three-bay biplane configuration had some dihedral but no stagger and measured 97ft tip-to-tip . |
| 23 | Having the right in the more serious cases to appeal over the head of the chief constable to the Watch Committee had little effect . |
| 24 | Throughout the first half Arsenal had most of the play , and Newcastle were held , until a cross from Arsenal 's goal line caught out the defenders and United 's Allen , unmarked , headed home . |
| 25 | Ian White of Farnham Triathlon Club had another successful outing in the Banana Leisure Burghfield 10½-mile road run . |
| 26 | Gittell ( 1980 ) , in a research study of school-related citizen organizations in three American cities , finds that both lower- and middle-class parent organizations had little effect on educational decision-making , their declared goal . |
| 27 | After nine prominent law firms had each recommended Aviv highly , Shaughnessy hired him and his company , Interfor , Inc. to develop those leads , and Aviv took off for Europe . |
| 28 | No wonder Swaziland had such difficult registering its team . |
| 29 | The great sun god had many forms and names , seventy-four of which were listed in the Litany of Re , a text which was inscribed in the entrances of royal tombs of the New Kingdom . |
| 30 | While dairy farmers had little to fear from the current round of GATT trade proposals now nearing formal agreement , he insisted that UK milk producers must be alive to threat that the inevitable ‘ son of GATT ’ could mean quota cutbacks of 20 to 25pc by the year 2000 or 2005 . |