Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 2 | And what a trick Fate had played on him by putting the very qualities he had wanted to see in that son in a daughter . |
| 3 | A computer crystal had appeared in his hand , and he looked at it in mild bemusement , as if it were a fish , or a coloured party hat . |
| 4 | A refugee delegation had proposed to Eliahu Sasson , the head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry 's Middle East Department at Lausanne , that Israel should annex the Gaza Strip and also the area subsequently known as the West Bank , while granting these areas local autonomy and absorbing another 100,000 refugees from surrounding Arab countries . |
| 5 | When Frobisher sailed to the north of America in 1576 , inspired by hopes of finding a north-west passage to India or China in the way that hopes of finding a north-east passage had led to the voyage that opened up the Muscovy trade , he and his backers were excited to find what they thought was gold on the route . |
| 6 | A club spokesman has responded to criticism that some season ticket holders will not get their usual seats for the Rumbelows League Cup semi-final first leg against Manchester United . |
| 7 | As a result work has started on the Blisworth tunnel ( on the Grand Union canal ) , which was closed to navigation because it was dangerous , and a reservoir which feeds the Oxford canal . |
| 8 | As a result circulation has fallen by half , and big advertisers have drifted away . |
| 9 | In the mid 1940s Battelle took an interest in developing the process further , and at a later date it was exploited through the Haloid Corporation after a research person had read about the technology in a journal . |
| 10 | A car worker has died in an accident on a production line . |
| 11 | Beefy 's wrath had been provoked by a swipe Raine had taken in Mission Impossible at Durham County Cricket Club . |
| 12 | A peace campaigner has appeared in court charged with criminal damage . |
| 13 | As a youngster Kylie had proved to be a wizard with a needle — amazing friends by being able to run up an outfit in under two hours . |
| 14 | When he was a child Nigel had thought of peeing as sex . |
| 15 | There 's been a lot of concern over the past few months of the rate of increase in unemployment within the Harrogate District and how as a percentage unemployment has increased in the Harrogate District rather than other districts . |
| 16 | The Z-rock ( Cinoptilolite Zeolite ) which we placed in a test tank has split into pieces along what appear to be sedimentary lines and turned yellow . |
| 17 | This is a fate Roddick has avoided by operating most of her shops under a franchise system . |
| 18 | A COMMITTEE chairwoman has quit over a row about postal votes at a Darlington community centre . |
| 19 | It is not too fanciful to see a connection here with a point Ingram has made about the acquisition of linguistic transformations by children ( to dwell within the Chomskian paradigm a little longer ) . |
| 20 | The one hundred and fifty minutes has its entertaining chunks but Little Big Man too self-consciously views the past from a modern standpoint ( there is even a gay Red Indian and bluesy music ) , and the demystification of legends , such as Custer , is done in too simplistic a manner , a process Penn had begun in The Left-Handed Gun . |
| 21 | ‘ This idea of a job change has come with perfect timing , has n't it ? |
| 22 | A funeral silence had come over the gathering . |
| 23 | The thought of her twitching her last in a plastic hat , face covered with green mud , carried him through to their bedroom ( a room Elinor had taken to calling ‘ my ’ bedroom ) and shored him up against Maisie 's rendition of the second subject in ‘ Für Elise ’ . |
| 24 | For a while their favourite game was wheeling along in a cart Endill had made until Wednesday crashed into a mound of rusty bicycles and hurt his arm . |
| 25 | A MAN accused of attacking two girls while posing as a taxi driver had confessed to the crimes during a tape-recorded interview , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 26 | In spite of the prevalence of economic planning in the 1960s and 1970s , it is doubtful whether a development policy has existed in most of Africa in the last twenty-five years . |
| 27 | In the morning his head felt as if the cast of a soap opera had moved in uninvited during the night , and the effort of following their interminable dreary intrigues left him mentally soiled and worn , less refreshed than when he 'd gone to bed . |
| 28 | A charity worker has appeared in court to face a fresh charge of stealing from a fund set up to help Kurdish refugees . |
| 29 | Often the battle is lost , and many a seaside town has disappeared beneath the waves ( while others , such as the once-thriving port of Rye in Kent , have been left high and dry as the sea retreated ) . |
| 30 | What had begun as a schoolgirl crush had grown into a profound and romantic desire to be Charles 's bride . |