Example sentences of "and [adj] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that has ruffled a few feathers at Shire Hall . |
| 2 | Jones has become increasingly loathe to change his side to accommodate individual clubs ' fortunes , and that has brought a first county call-up for young Hawarden Park batsman Darrell Bowden . |
| 3 | Well , I have done the photography for the front cover and er of this particular book , but countryside books , who are the publishers , were asked a number of years ago to republish the old Berkshire village book and that has started a whole series of countryside village books , which now cover , I think , about thirty five different counties . |
| 4 | The long-wave , world-systems and regulationist theories are broad frameworks to which several writers have contributed and each has given a new twist to the framework they use . |
| 5 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 6 | Forty three per cent had been investigated , often extensively , before referral , and eight had had a non-curative cholecystectomy . |
| 7 | Investigations included barium meal , barium enema , endoscopy , ultrasound scanning , intravenous urography , spinal radiology , and laparotomy before referral , and eight had had a non-curative cholecystectomy . |
| 8 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 9 | Many practices have so far opted not to take the inducements to fundhold , and some have invested a considerable amount of time and energy into alternative methods of organising general practitioners ' input into purchasing decisions . |
| 10 | Recent studies showing predominantly presynaptic LTP have used 2.5mM Ca 2+ for slice experiments , and some have reported a high proportion of failures , suggesting low initial release probabilities . |
| 11 | There was growing public concern at the high toll of deaths and injuries among servicemen in peacetime , and this had become a significant factor in the worsening problem of draft-dodging . |
| 12 | We went along the river bank : two smugglers were being hanged near Billingsgate and this had attracted a large crowd to watch their last dance . |
| 13 | Over the centuries officers had had to nurse their wooden ships for structural reasons and this had provided a certain measure of protection against excessive sail-carrying . |
| 14 | Joseph had accompanied her willingly , but she had soon noticed that his manner was subdued and cool towards her , and this had added a vague new dimension to her unease . |
| 15 | It might be noted at this point that in recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the volume of business conducted in the interbank market and this has become a major source of liquidity for banks . |
| 16 | In February 1990 a European style option was made available on the FT-SE 100 Index , and this has generated a fair degree of interest among the investing public . |
| 17 | There has been a surge of field studies in the Himalayan-Tibetan region since the late 1970s and this has generated a large body of published work . |
| 18 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |
| 19 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 20 | I am a bit of an oddity here and this has opened a few doors for me . |
| 21 | The organization of cartels runs directly counter to the anti-monopoly legislation bestowed by the US occupation , and this has produced a prolonged struggle within the bureaucracy between MITI and the Fair Trade Commission . |
| 22 | ‘ Killer ’ , as you probably know , is currently under suspension following the harmless headbutting of a linesman during the Scrimley Arsenal game , and this has left a big hole in Mr Hudd 's forehead , not to mention our defence . |
| 23 | Subjects ranged in age from 21 to 61 and all had held a full British driving licence for at least three years . |
| 24 | The great thing is that everybody has been to the cinema , and many have had a strange experience there . ’ |
| 25 | 1 , 2 and 3 have assumed a stable body of knowledge . |
| 26 | But the blank horror over Khmer Rouge atrocities between 1975 and 1978 has created a blind spot about its strength in Cambodia , and the growing likelihood that it will return to power , either on its own or with the other Cambodian opposition factions . |
| 27 | Maybe we Scots and Irish have paid a high price for our long memories , but who in Scotland or Ireland has not some attitude to the Great Hunger , or the Clearances , or just to a vague morass of names , Culloden and Robert the Bruce and Rebel Songs ? |
| 28 | The 1970s and 1980s have witnessed a striking growth in the range of development options available to NHS managers . |
| 29 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |