Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , an amazing new technique has made it possible to produce an accurate facsimile of Tutankhamun 's mummy which will form the centre-piece of the Exhibition . |
| 2 | He says that the technique has meant they can speed up research time , helping to stay ahead of the field . |
| 3 | A housewife has asked us if she should pay off her mortgage now , while she can still afford to do so . |
| 4 | Some of these shots could not be taken today in this , either because building has made them impossible or simply because the crowds who congregate to nowadays to take these shots would detract from the scene . |
| 5 | When the photographer has finished we 'll bring out the items to you . |
| 6 | Intergraph Corp has decided it will standardise on Menlo Park , California-based Versant Object Technology Corp 's eponymous object-oriented database , reselling the product and using it in some future products . |
| 7 | Westfields , Virginia-based Genicom Corp reports that Dell Computer Corp has chosen it to be Dell 's preferred printer provider : financial terms were not released , but Genicom said the partnership is expected to be a multimillion dollar opportunity for both companies . |
| 8 | Compression Laboratories Inc , San Jose , says Bell Atlantic Corp has chosen it to supply technology for the phone company 's video-on-demand trial for up to 400 residential homes : Compression Labs will provide digital video encoders and decoders which convert standard analogue video signals to a compressed digital video format ; terms of the pact were not disclosed . |
| 9 | After a reeve has mated she departs from the lek to lay her eggs and rears her young by herself . |
| 10 | The recognition that a text may set up its own secondary norms leads to a further conclusion , that features of language within that text may depart from the norms of the text itself : that is , they may " stand out " against the background of what the text has led us to expect . |
| 11 | Oliver 's experience of returning to Metastasio 's original text has given him a new respect for that most maligned of operatic dramatists . |
| 12 | Yet , curiously , the science that has changed the presentation of text has brought it back under the control of a single person , just as it was when the first presses printed . |
| 13 | British Rail has said it will reinstate Newton as a double-track junction . |
| 14 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 15 | I do not believe that British Rail has got it right . |
| 16 | But now British Rail has told her it ca n't find room for her 20-inch wheelchair , and unless she finds herself a smaller one she 'll have to make alternative arrangements . |
| 17 | Said Carole , ‘ From a household of four Old English Sheepdogs all four have won first prizes at Crufts and the only male has done it twice . |
| 18 | As a Russian Orthodox Christian has expressed it : " To speak of God we should be at once poets , musicians and saints " ( Bobrinskoy 1986 : 7 ) . |
| 19 | Our success is due to you the readers , whose loyalty and support has made it all possible . |
| 20 | ‘ My daughter 's sixteen , and today my ex-husband has taken her and my mother to a pantomime . ’ |
| 21 | After about a year I gave in to the pull and discovered that fatherhood has made me a much more serious person . |
| 22 | Fatherhood has changed me . |
| 23 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 24 | James , one of the best writers who out of love for the old detective story has taken it and made something more of it , once summed it up very neatly . |
| 25 | Whilst initially not as financially rewarding , the change in direction has brought him increasing recognition . |
| 26 | Already this freedom has benefited him , and when I know of the good I have done him , I feel that freedom is the only way to greater purity … |
| 27 | But though the camera may be at gut level , a cerebral decision has placed it there , and it is characteristic of Greenaway that he should stylise a major element of his film in this way . |
| 28 | From 1 January 1993 UK banks will only be able to include their interim profits in tier 1 capital if their external auditor has verified them ( p 97 ) . |
| 29 | What Cable has equipped us with is a theoretical metrics with challenging things to say about poetic competence : metrics , as he puts it ( p. 65 ) , " is not about orthography and written texts apprehended by the eye but about mental structures " . |
| 30 | The onward march of technological progress has given us the user-friendly sealed cassette , much more difficult to damage or tamper with — or to intervene in ( and to recreate on modern machines ) . |