Example sentences of "[adv] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Hungarian living in Edinburgh taped the pronunciation of difficult place names and luckily one of our team had lived in Hungary , so had a wealth of background information . |
| 2 | Edinburgh has long had a tradition of study of South Asia and also possesses comparatively rich library and archive resources in the University Library ( including New College Library ) , the School of Scottish Studies , the National Library of Scotland and the National Record Office . |
| 3 | Almost adjacent to the vineyards of Aÿ , these vines have long had a reputation for producing wines of similar quality and character to the famous grand cru . |
| 4 | Stories can teach , entertain , and entrance , and women have long had a reputation for creating an atmosphere which keeps the listener spellbound . |
| 5 | Due to its flat landscape , Norfolk has long had a reputation for its fantastic light quality , a phenomenon that has been captured to great effect by many painters . |
| 6 | Newcastle 's Labour council has long had a policy of supporting its community — a policy that has informed many aspects of city life . |
| 7 | As Maryon had not long had a baby , we decided that Alan should volunteer , as he did not have such a valid excuse ! |
| 8 | Nor are women prominent in senior positions in the professions although they have long had a place there in those areas concerned with women 's affairs which are most clearly associated with their assumed ‘ natural ’ role of caring for and serving others . |
| 9 | She visited the museum and caressed the Elgin Marbles — upon which she , and successive Greek governments , had long had a claim . |
| 10 | Left : Collectair has long had a fascination with the magazine Tee Emm . |
| 11 | Cripps , at that time President of the Board of Trade , had long had a penchant for machinery-of-government matters and had been active as a minister in the wartime Coalition on reconstruction committees established to consider the issue . |
| 12 | In 1979 a homebuyer would have only had a choice of repayment or the newly-popular endowment mortgages . |
| 13 | I 'm a Sunderland supporter who lives down here , I 've only had a day 's notice . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've only had a couple of abusive ones , and a couple of nasty telephone calls . ’ |
| 15 | I 've only had a couple , I can drive . ’ |
| 16 | It 's so hard to work on full glow when you 've only had a couple of hours kip . |
| 17 | and then he had he 'd only had a couple I think before he went home but he does n't drink much see . |
| 18 | He 's sound as a pound is n't he like , he 's only had a couple of pints . |
| 19 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 20 | Eve , but listen , when you 've been out with me on a Monday I 've said to you you 've only had a cauliflower |
| 21 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 22 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 23 | Clients who have only had a mortgage for a year or two , may find they have to pay three months ' penalty interest in any event . |
| 24 | Another helpful procedure would be to let children who are learning to read silently have some experience of reading aloud , to one another , passages of their own choosing , not ‘ from cold ’ , as a test of reading skill , but after they have become familiar with a text in general terms and have perhaps had a chance to look closely at syntax or vocabulary found to be perplexing . |
| 25 | I could see at once that they had all had a skinful . |
| 26 | This was n't strictly true as they 'd all had a go on the board . |
| 27 | which you you 've obviously had a mind to because you 've done the breakdown about the various other regions , |
| 28 | ‘ After her parents died about a year apart she suddenly got a survival instinct which knew no boundaries at all because she had no longer had a family , ’ said Amanda . |
| 29 | Thus , in most WFS countries in the Western Hemisphere and East & South-East Asia & Oceania regions , among the women who were aged 25–29 when interviewed , median age at first marriage or union was about 20.2 and 18.8 , respectively , and the median age at first birth ( i.e. the age at which half of them had already had a birth ) was around 21 years ( between 19 and 24 years in individual countries ) . |
| 30 | The Scottish Trekking and Riding Association has already had a qualification approved at this level . |