Example sentences of "had a [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council had a responsibility to local businesses and should respond positively by allowing the change of use . |
| 2 | The government had recognised that the largest of these had a claim to continued autonomy and proposed to exclude ten of them from the jurisdiction of their surrounding counties . |
| 3 | Until the early sixties Khomeini spent his life in the holy city of Qom , where he taught law , philosophy and ethics , insisting that Islam had a commitment to social and political causes and that Iran had to be independent of both Eastern and Western colonialism . |
| 4 | The hospital had a commitment to shared care with the patient and patient 's relatives and care plans were drawn up in full consultation with both . |
| 5 | Thus , although the main aim of our research was to help Wirral Council to develop policies and plan services for heroin users , based on a sound empirical base , we also had an eye to improving methods of estimating prevalence which any community might employ to answer such questions as : How many residents are known to use heroin or other illicit drugs ? |