Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 2 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 3 | This seemed to have prompted a rush of at least six people to seek Dr Kevorkian 's assistance in January and February . |
| 4 | All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture . |
| 5 | Similar doubts were expressed about the study of the environment , which took off about the same time , but this seems to have gained a much firmer academic foothold , despite the fact that such courses range from the physical to the social with , as one CRAC Degree Course Guide put it , almost nothing in common between these two extremes . |
| 6 | In some schools , at any rate , this seems to have performed a rhetorical function in conforming to the guidelines , rather than producing a realistic statement of an established and developing provision . |
| 7 | Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers . |
| 8 | In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it . |
| 9 | Government troops on Jan. 21 claimed to have overrun a base used by ethnic Mon guerrillas near Bokpyin township in the south-east ; the death toll was given as 10 rebels and one government soldier . |
| 10 | All reported having had a wonderful day and causing much comment and amusement wherever they went . |
| 11 | The ecosystems on which we all depend have reached a disastrous stage in their decline , and their destruction is accelerating out of control . |
| 12 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 13 | William Grindcob at St Albans and Geoffrey Litster in East Norfolk were local leaders as able and articulate as Tyler in Kent and London , and all seem to have had a capacity to maintain discipline . |
| 14 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 15 | There are exceptions to this I would suggest that very high turn outs in the er local election , local elections in Harlow almost certainly because there was a lot of interest in it press interest because of the great battle in Old Harlow and that appears to have had a spin off effect on turn out in the other wards as well . |
| 16 | I write with regard to your order for the above tape , as I am unable to trace having received a reply to my letter to you of 14 February last . |
| 17 | All those affected had attended a function at the restaurant . |
| 18 | The continuation of high risk behaviour in this group , who would have been counselled about safe sex when tested for HIV-1 infection , is of particular concern , as are seroconversions in those known to have had a negative test result . |
| 19 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme , the Daily Telegraph reports . |
| 20 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 21 | The pace of Norman McGladdery , eligible to play having appealed a seven-game ban imposed on him by the Ulster Branch , Colin Allister and Lee Tumilty caused problems throughout whereas the skills of Jimmy Kirkwood and Daniel Clarke at the other end were stifled by a resolute defence . |
| 22 | ‘ You two appear to have had a good time , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 23 | The Superior Electoral Court ( TSE ) issued the results of a survey on Oct. 6 which claimed that 60 per cent of the 84,000,000 people legally obliged to vote had made a " mistake " with their ballot papers or had not voted . |
| 24 | And remember that if Riddle was murdered on Friday night his killer is not going to be anxious to admit having had a visit . ’ |
| 25 | At the same time he declared that the government 's economic polices had had a sufficient impact particularly on consumer spending and imports , to allow " a sustainable fall in interest rates " . |
| 26 | British Shipbuilders last seems to have recruited a significant number of apprentices in the late 1970s . |