Example sentences of "[noun] that [pers pn] had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice it would be almost impossible to disprove a claim by the defendant that he had a licence but had lost it and had forgotten from which local taxation office it had been issued . |
| 2 | It means in effect that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
| 3 | four days before The Observer published this statement by Wilson , Chapman Pincher wrote in the Daily Express that he had a copy of a DI6 report , detailing the heavy surveillance of Harold Wilson prior to the general election of February 1974 . |
| 4 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 5 | I had to hang blankets over the windows at night , and in the morning they were so heavy with moisture that I had a proper job taking them down . |
| 6 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 7 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 8 | Police say there were rumours in the village that he had a large sum , but friends say he kept it all in bank and building society accounts . |
| 9 | It was n't until I threatened to bring my men down to discuss it with him at the Swan Inn that he had a change of mind . |
| 10 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |
| 11 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |
| 12 | It was while she was staying with Caroline one weekend in September 1978 at her parents ' Norfolk home that she had a disturbing premonition . |
| 13 | After retirement the jury returned to court and informed the judge that they had a problem . |
| 14 | Oxford students succeeded , in Fox v Stirk [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 7 , in establishing that they could be resident in their university constituency and thus entitled to qualify to vote notwithstanding that they were also resident in their home constituencies and could qualify to vote there alternatively but this was on the basis that they had a ‘ residence ’ in Oxford where they spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 15 | Lord Donaldson was suggesting that the parties made an informed decision that the matter had to be referred to arbitration on the basis that they had a formulated dispute where their rights and obligations were to be determined . |
| 16 | I recall at this period that I had a new second pilot by the name of Saltzgaber , who was first generation Canadian but German born , The target was Mannheim , When we got into the area we found that thick cloud covered what we thought was tie target , so we went down , But there was no way we were going to get under . |
| 17 | I learnt that Roy Hattersley and Gwyneth Dunwoody , who spoke for the Opposition on health , had claimed at Labour 's morning press conference that they had a ‘ leaked ’ copy of a secret Health Department report planning the privatization of the service . |
| 18 | She did not want to tell Connor that she had a private plan in mind ; it was such a very long shot , and might come to nothing . |
| 19 | ‘ It nearly brought tears to my eyes , ’ confessed Dr Phil Gates yesterday in recalling the moment that he had a polythene bag in front of him which contained £250,000 in old notes . |
| 20 | Wayne , Ricky 's favourite pony , had such a low threshold of boredom that he had a special manger hooked over the half-door so he could eat and miss nothing in the yard at the same time . |
| 21 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 22 | Dr Bean-Bayog said the charge that she had a sexual relationship with Lozano was ‘ outlandish ’ . |
| 23 | er I think I personally would rue the day that we had a civilian stone cold with that sort of post because its priorities would be so different to ours |
| 24 | It was apparent from that day that he had a natural talent that was waiting to be developed . |
| 25 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 26 | He had figured from her stories that she had a more passionate temperament and had hoped she 'd shout and scream at his wife . |
| 27 | To say of persons however who simply believe of Jesus that he had a very fine moral teaching , but who wish to say nothing of Jesus himself , that they are Christian surely does not make sense theologically — whatever they may say of themselves . |
| 28 | ‘ You said on the phone that you had a problem . ’ |
| 29 | The major intention of the 1936 Act , however , was specifically to encourage white-collar unionisation , and Bain and Elsheikh ( 1976 ) find no evidence that it had a significant impact upon aggregate union growth . |
| 30 | And Rank interpreted his own difficulty in understanding The Red Shoes as evidence that he had a disaster on his hands . |