Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job .
2 Robins has jumped to the head of Stuttgart 's hit list after helping Norwich top the Premier League following his summer move from Manchester United for £800,000 .
3 Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe .
4 To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received on the subject of Scottish government ; and if he will make a statement .
5 To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received on the subject of taxation of child care ; and if he will make a statement .
6 To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what recent representations he has received on the subject of the introduction of a statutory payroll levy .
7 To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what representations he has received on the conduct of children 's homes in Gwynedd .
8 To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on the future of the Scottish regiments and battalions ; and if he will make a statement .
9 To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received over the level of the retirement pension .
10 To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received about the level of parliamentary representation from England ; and if he will make a statement .
11 To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received about the level of expenditure on maintenance for Cleveland 's schools ; and if he will make a statement .
12 To ask the Lord President of the Council what representations he has received about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members .
13 To ask the Attorney-General how many representations he has received since the beginning of December which have been critical of his reaction to Sunday opening of stores .
14 The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building .
15 In view of the exhortation by the hon. Member for Southampton , Test ( Mr. Hill ) a few minutes ago that we should buy British when we buy food , I wonder whether the Minister can tell the House what representations he has received from the Ministry of Defence on his consultation document ?
16 Book Packagers & Marketing is floating a new series on classic fruit and flowers in response to the interest that Martin Marix Evans has received in the preservation of traditional varieties .
17 Much of this latter perspective has developed through an analysis of media of various sorts , especially television , magazines and film .
18 The rapidly deteriorating relationship which has developed between the Polytechnic of Central London ( PCL ) and the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) in recent years can be ascribed to similar factors .
19 Something of a myth has developed about the universality of ‘ live ’ variety that can be explained in terms of generalizations based on those great centres London and New York , and by the ubiquitous nature of printed sheet music which often used the name of a star as a selling gimmick and which took songs into many pubs and drinking saloons as well as into many homes .
20 The steady rise in quality of the materials produced and developed at Dudley Teachers ' Centre , for instance , is an excellent example ; the centre has an enthusiastic warden and much of the work has developed under the stimulus of an outstanding educational adviser , but the content of the materials has been developed by local teachers with admirable results ( mostly limited at present to print-form ) .
21 These Pleistocene oscillations of sea level have been superimposed on slightly earlier and usually downward movements of base level , so that the landscape in detail is complex and has developed under the influence of many and varied movements of base level .
22 Though deregulation is a difficult concept to define , the reshaping process which has developed as a result of it is readily apparent .
23 In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions .
24 ‘ Photography has developed into a weapon of resistance in the constant struggle for survival , ’ Mr Müller said .
25 ‘ Ince has developed into a player of substance and people forget he is still only 24 .
26 Priddle and Heywood ( 1980 ) regard antarctic lakes as forming an evolutionary series which has developed over the period of about 20 000 years since the ice-sheet was maximal ; this is in any case a convenient way of describing them .
27 However , when the weathering mantle has developed to a depth of several metres the rate of water movement at the weathering front becomes very slow .
28 Father Giles reflected on the Beatitudes — their original meaning and the meaning that has developed in the course of time , up to the present day .
29 Althusser 's answer to this most pressing query has developed in the course of his work .
30 He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 .
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