Example sentences of "have [verb] [conj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If choreographers study the above works of Ashton and MacMillan , they will understand how far the art of choreography has developed since Fokine changed its structure and texture . |
| 2 | One chairman has commented that tribunals operate a sliding scale of formality . |
| 3 | VG has calculated that Frank costed start around GBP 2500 pr hour . |
| 4 | There has been a small reduction in cigarette smoking , to 1,008 per capita ; military spending fell in 1990 and figures for 1991 were expected to show a further decline ; and significantly smaller quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are being produced ; but , disturbingly , grain production has fallen while population continues to grow at record rates . |
| 5 | Some analysts argue that the result is deceptive because only successful beaches applied this year , while others claim that the number of winners has fallen because beaches had to meet a much stricter test on bacteria in the water . |
| 6 | Output has fallen and price risen , but not by as much as in the case depicted in Figure 5.2 . |
| 7 | she has to wait till Val comes back from holiday . |
| 8 | Palestinians still come to work in Israel , industry has adjusted and tourism shows signs of recovering . |
| 9 | Palestinians still come to work in Israel , industry has adjusted and tourism shows signs of recovering . |
| 10 | Geoff Fear , Supervisor from Pest Control in Chester has succeeded where others failed by securing a significant price increase from a large bakery in Northwich . |
| 11 | I DID NOT STAY to see the Eid — the Eid Al Iftr , that great feast of the breaking of the fast , the days of celebration when everyone dresses in new clothes as though the sackcloth of fasting has lifted and life has renewed itself once again . |
| 12 | The fundamental problem facing the Soviet Union is that the discipline which once held the centrally planned system together , however imperfectly , has collapsed before markets have had time to develop . |
| 13 | The cruel killings of real or imagined collaborators have helped restore this image , yet who has forgotten that Jews executed traitors during their own struggle for national liberation ? |
| 14 | The cruel killings of real or imagined collaborators have helped restore this image , yet who has forgotten that Jews executed traitors during their own struggle for national liberation ? |
| 15 | The hostility has accentuated as hostilities have progressed . |
| 16 | If the time has come when Virgin needs a union for people 's grievances to be redressed and their rights upheld , then it would almost not be worth me going on , and I will pack up and get out . ’ |
| 17 | The European Economic research Consortium has reported that Edinburgh had the best prospects of Britain 's large cities in the 1990's . |
| 18 | The Renewable Energy Advisory Group , set up to advise the government , has recommended that Britain aim to produce 1,500 megawatts of energy from renewable sources by the year 2000 . |
| 19 | The arrival of Dean Saunders from Liverpool has ensured that Atkinson does not drift back into his apathetic state of mind . |
| 20 | The arrival of Dean Saunders from Liverpool has ensured that Atkinson does not drift back into his apathetic state of mind . |
| 21 | The close identity between fans and their club has weakened as football has become big business and as the players , who were once from the same working-class community as the fans , have become rich superstars . |
| 22 | This may be well , but what if God has seen and death ensue , then I shall be no more and Adam wedded to another Eve shall live with her enjoying I extinct a death to think . |
| 23 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 24 | In the first place , no-one has claimed that education is the only factor making for economic growth , and vice versa , no-one has argued that education makes no impact whatsoever on economic growth . |
| 25 | Shell has argued that suggestions to impose a statutory limit on the size and age of tankers , and to ensure that all new ones have double hulls may back-fire . |
| 26 | I also find it difficult to take from somebody who has said that farmers have not done too badly . |
| 27 | In a clamp-down on crime , the Home Secretary has said that offenders cautioned by police should not expect to be given a second chance . |
| 28 | Let us suppose that an acquaintance has said that Smith acted wrongly in telling a fairly minor lie in order to promote his career , and suppose that a little later he himself tells a fairly minor lie in order to promote his career . |
| 29 | Unpublished government research has revealed that bathers have caught sewage-related illnesses on two of Britain 's cleanest tourist beaches . |
| 30 | ‘ Market research has revealed that customers prefer ATMs to be located at supermarkets , shopping malls , airports , railway stations and self service petrol stations , ’ he said , ‘ so the main thrust of our expansion programme is towards remote sites . |