Example sentences of "[noun sg] and have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secretary of the new NILP branch was Ivan Cooper , who had come to public attention the previous year when he resigned from the Bond 's Glen and Claudy Young Unionist Association and had stood as an Independent candidate for the Londonderry Rural District Council . |
| 2 | I want continuous ventilation in a bedroom and have decided on a trickle ventilator . |
| 3 | I remind the House that since 1979 the Government have approved over £7.5 billion of new investment and have provided for grant aid of about £17 billion to the industry . |
| 4 | The President had seen the polls forecasting heavy defeat and had decided on a high-profile last-ditch effort to free the Iranian hostages . |
| 5 | Also selected for the first time is batsman Mohsin Chohan , who plays for the Bangor club and has appeared for Caernarfonshire in the past . |
| 6 | Some researchers have studied the effects of nuclear weapon testing , which reached a peak in 1961–2 , on stratospheric ozone concentration and have arrived at contrasting conclusions . |
| 7 | The unit accepted it was its fault and has apologised for the delay , ’ he said . |
| 8 | He was in fact an employee rather than an independent agent and had worked for the defendants for 17 years . |
| 9 | Over by the fireplace , the headmaster had exhausted his limited store of small talk and had advanced to matters of serious educational concern . |
| 10 | Odd-Knut collects a kettle of snow and has settled into Nathan 's seat with a roll-up . |
| 11 | It might be added that William Hamilton was well supplied with interest to advance his settlement , for he had served Lord Haddington as a page when at college and had continued in Haddington 's service as chaplain . |
| 12 | Left idealism has badly misrepresented the nature and meaning of crime and has failed in its dismissal of correctionalism . |
| 13 | Only after he finished in his world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds did George learn that the tenacious Scot had collapsed sixty yards from the tape and had fallen on the grass . |
| 14 | Next door 's dog jumps our fence and has dug under our sheds , chewing the wood away in her effort to rid us of rabbits ( no complaints , we love the dog ) . |
| 15 | The taekwondo suit is called a tobok ; like the other martial arts uniforms , it is loose fitting and has developed from the peasant 's costume . |
| 16 | Pathologist Dr Chris Johnson told the court that the father-of-four grown-up children had at least seven pints of alcohol in his blood and had overdosed on 30 anti-depressant tablets . |
| 17 | In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government . |
| 18 | Gould has threatened to take legal action and has written to the Prime Minister claiming his civil liberties were infringed . |
| 19 | This is to state that is an accredited volunteer with Christian Aid and has agreed with the appropriate Department at Head Office a specific work arrangement . |
| 20 | Borders Regional Council has sought to listen and to respond to its electorate and has succeeded in drawing up a document that is widely supported in the area . |
| 21 | Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide . |
| 22 | He spent a year in the wilds of Canada working with the air ambulance and has cycled through Iceland , Finland and Sweden . |
| 23 | He was district secretary of the ITGWU and had stood on the NILP ticket a number of times before the split of 1949 , when he went over to the Irish Labour Party . |
| 24 | Subsequently , the company agreed to independent auditing and has returned to profitability . |
| 25 | We had completed our map reading and compass work and had tramped across the moors at night on a freezing combat endurance test where we map read our way from rendezvous to rendezvous . |
| 26 | They have been on shopping trips , watched plenty of television and have even enjoyed visits to the Camelot theme park and Formby sands , courtesy of John Davies , another friend of Bob 's , who is currently out of work and has volunteered with his wife to take the Causevics on occasional days out . |
| 27 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
| 28 | He has published many works on Scottish architecture and has contributed to a variety of publications including the Architectural Review , Country Life , the Architects ' Journal and the Times Literary Supplement . |
| 29 | The HEARSAY project [ Erman et al , 1980 ] used this architecture and has proved to be highly influential ( albeit less than completely successful ) as an example of collaboration between different levels of processing . |
| 30 | Suchocka , born in 1946 , was a lecturer in constitutional law and had served since 1989 on the Sejm legislation committee . |