Example sentences of "who had the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The serjeants at law , who had the exclusive privilege of practising , pleading and audience in the Court of Common Pleas from time immemorial until their exclusive privileges were abolished by the Practitioners in Common Pleas Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 54 ) , had always fallen into a special category and before the events of 1292 to which reference is made in the 1970 judgment , Parliament had introduced an elementary form of disciplinary control over serjeants and pleaders in the Statute of Westminster 1275 ( 3 Edw. 1 c. 29 ) which provided , in the event of attainder for deceit or collusion in the King 's Court , for a term of imprisonment and for disqualification for life from ‘ pleading in that court for any man . ’ |
| 2 | To someone such as I , who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only , a fragile method , it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts ‘ the largest corpus of texts ’ of them and ‘ a remarkable resource ’ . |
| 3 | Shortly after this stop , we passed Mr Adrian Boyd who lives quite near Hampton Court Palace , and who had the brilliant idea of staging a Flower Show in the park behind the Palace , which makes the most wonderful setting with natural waterways . |
| 4 | It was Pybus who had the brilliant idea of putting the thing out to tender and , despite my warnings , thought that no one could match the school 's price of 158 banana chews , free strawberry milkshakes once a week during the season and a promise from Mike Channon that he would play the Virgin Mary in the school nativity play . |
| 5 | The government was treated as the supplier of certain political goods not just the political good of law and order in general , but the specific political goods demanded by those who had the upper hand in running that particular kind of society . |
| 6 | The ATB did not have its own instructor force but employed people who had the relevant skills and knowledge in the particular course subject . |
| 7 | The tape clicked off and Charlotte looked across at Maurice , who had the relevant map spread open on his lap . |
| 8 | I would n't be surprised if they were the sort of people who had the stolen bicycle down in the bushes . |
| 9 | Home player Mark Brown is given an outing after his very good showing at Tyneside in the Durham County championship qualifier , while Geoff Charlton , who had the joint leading score in that event , is unable to play due to previous commitments . |
| 10 | 19% of those who had the genuine patch managed to stay off cigarettes , but only 11% of the others . |
| 11 | Were they not the ones who had the fancy dress party the Victorian dress party at the hotel ? |
| 12 | The Sussex Daily News could only say that it was the boy who had the black eye when they got to the police station . |
| 13 | This principle was extended to civil servants who had the alternative remedy of taking their complaints to an industrial tribunal . |
| 14 | These were mainly people who had the greatest freedom to vary their hours of employment — those without families , the middle-aged , the wealthy , and rural workers . |
| 15 | Walsh pointed out to Sutton that it was he , and not Pilger , who had the final say about what went in the paper . |
| 16 | and who is chairman of the board , who had the final say ? |
| 17 | Nothing else can explain his attitude to the young Greg LeMond , who had the mixed fortune of being his teammate . |
| 18 | Why should an applicant , who must in any event be prepared to satisfy the primary purpose test , be worse off because he contemplates the possibility of a relatively short stay in the UK than one who had the fixed intention of permanent UK residence ? |
| 19 | Mengele was obsessed with twins , and five of the twins who had the terrible misfortune to figure in his ‘ studies ’ talk about what they went through and how they have coped with the memories in Sunday 's Everyman : My Brother , My Sister ( 10.20pm , — Gazza ‘ azza gon na to Italy at last , but the ups and downs of a year when his comeback looked anything but certain are charted in Sunday 's hour-long documentary Gazza The Fight Back ( 4pm , Tyne Tees , 5.30pm Yorks ) . |
| 20 | His lectures on the eye , the foetal circulation , and especially on the foot , would never , it was claimed , be forgotten by those who had the good fortune to hear him . |
| 21 | Andrew will be much missed by all the many who had the good fortune to count him as a colleague and a friend . |
| 22 | Information on inpatient and outpatient waiting times by specialty and consultant was sent , every three months , to local general practitioners , who had the additional benefit of a direct , ex–directory telephone link to the centre to make inquiries . |
| 23 | He beat Liz Edgar on Everest Rapier , who had the only other clear round of the jump-off . |
| 24 | If the Victorian era was over , the example set by Queen Victoria during her long reign was still fresh in the mind , and all women who had the right amount of sense and spirit knew that attack was the best form of defence when dealing with men who liked to lay down the law . |
| 25 | He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him . |
| 26 | ‘ I need lads who had no ties , and who had the right character . |
| 27 | Rather , the recession called for candidates who were above all young , sharp , bright and who had the necessary track record of success to turn businesses around . |
| 28 | It was so painted , Molly thought , that the cat looked considerably more human than the child , who had the embarrassing appearance of a performing animal dressed in frilly pantaloons and a bright blue sash . |
| 29 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 30 | Grace Bird , who had the smallest part in the play , that of Maud Mockridge the lady novelist , had still not memorised her lines and read from the script . |