Example sentences of "have [verb] about [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis Gerstner was by no means the first , and IBM Corp has been actively hiring executives from outside the company since the beginning of the year , Associated Press reports : it says that IBM has hired about 30 outside executives in the past two years and is searching for 50 more ; incomers include Robert Howe , 48 , general manager , IBM Consulting Group , former head of worldwide financial services practice at consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton ; Michael Cannon , 40 , vice-president , personal systems storage devices , Adstar , former senior vice-president , worldwide operations at Syquest Technology Inc ; John Osborne , 39 , sales director , Personal Software Products , former vice-president of sales and marketing at Zenith Data Systems Inc ; Jon Cornell , 53 , assistant general manager , original equipment manufacturers sales and marketing , IBM Technology Products , former president , Harris Corp ; John Singleton , 56 , general manager , business development , Integrated Systems Solution Corp , former chief executive , Security Pacific Automation Co ; and Clare Thain , 43 , advertising and promotion director , IBM US , who was formerly the managing partner at Ronald James Direct . |
| 2 | The recent frenzy of docklands development , coupled with a growing relish for waterside properties , has brought about two other well-appointed marinas : the Marina at South Dock and Chelsea Harbour . |
| 3 | Mr Karimov justifies his hard line by pointing to the chaos in neighbouring Tajikistan , where a war between rival clans has left about 20,000 dead and displaced some 600,000 people from their homes . |
| 4 | Margaret , a member of the Suffolk and North Essex Humanists , has conducted about 20 humanist funerals in the past 18 months , despite her own struggles against cancer and the post-viral fatigue syndrome ME . |
| 5 | She 'd got about six little normal dining chairs , and then there there were the carver chairs , she 'd got about six of those . |
| 6 | ‘ And after about six months of work I 'd got about ten finished tracks together , and to be honest , they sounded great ! |
| 7 | The figures for the breeder stations alone would have meant about 250 large reactors dotted around the British Isles . |
| 8 | Russia was reported to have sent about 10 motorized battalions of Interior Ministry troops to the North Caucasus republics within the RF , in an attempt to protect RF borders and maintain order . |
| 9 | There was a sing-song in progress in the dome car and the racegoers in the dayniter had formed about four separate card schools with cash passing briskly . |
| 10 | On more than one occasion she has admitted to being very intoxicated and I understand that she has stated that she had consumed about 24 single measures of dry Martini and lemonade , together with some white wine . |
| 11 | I do n't think I have seen enough of Beeny to critize/praise him ( even though I 've seen about 12 live games this year ) . |
| 12 | He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch . |
| 13 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 14 | We cut up small pieces of carpet into different sizes and we 've got about fifteen different folders |
| 15 | Yeah I mean I hope all , I will be able t all I will do is say well we 've got about fifty bloody criteria here . |
| 16 | Yeah she 's my form teacher , I 've got about twenty other teachers |
| 17 | Several factors had brought about this new attitude . |
| 18 | What ever had brought about this strange union ? |
| 19 | The ministry had recruited about 170 extra clerical staff to run the BSPS system — not the 400-500 that some organisations had alleged . |
| 20 | After you have mixed about two teaspoonsful of the water into the oil and wax , remove from the heat and continue adding the water a little at a time until you have incorporated it all . |
| 21 | But she 's got about six different firms on the computer and was comparing notes . |
| 22 | I would hope for a little bipartisan support for the sort of work done , for example , by our drugs liaison officers abroad , who have brought about such successful seizures of heroin and other drugs in recent months . |
| 23 | One problem is that the pressures for commercialism have brought about two divergent policy responses from governments . |
| 24 | With the help of a friend and my brother , to date we have fitted about seven full systems , some of them for brokers that I call on . |