Example sentences of "have [verb] [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without doubt it is the obstinate resistance of facts blocking the way to goals which has taught mankind such awareness as it has . |
| 2 | Maurice Fermoy became the Conservative Member of Parliament for King 's Lynn while his Scottish wife , who gave up a promising career as a concert pianist to marry , founded the King 's Lynn Festival for Arts and Music which , since its inception in 1951 , has attracted world renowned musicians such as Sir John Barbirolli and Yehudi Menuhin . |
| 3 | Long derided as the product of a fevered brain , Docklands has made progress this year , despite backlash from Olympia & York 's £5.8bn worldwide debts . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to replace type 42 destroyers with a new air-defence frigate . |
| 5 | The success of many Japanese and German firms in gaining global market leadership has helped shape this re-appraisal . |
| 6 | The communist party should not be banned , it is true that many members of it did support er an coup , on the other hand so many people joined the communist party for advancement and it 's not very democratic to ban a party which has had su such power and such membership . |
| 7 | There is an Inter-American Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad 1975 ( with a supplementary Protocol of 1984 ) and the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee has drafted model bilateral conventions including provisions on the same topic . |
| 8 | Irvine , California-based Platinum Software Corp has bought Automation One Pty Ltd , an accounting software supplier in New Zealand and Australia , on undisclosed terms : Automation One , a 75-person firm founded in 1983 , will be renamed Platinum Software ( NZ ) Ltd in New Zealand , and Platinum Software ( Aust ) Pty Ltd in Australia , the company said . |
| 9 | The CAB in the hospital , as well as advising the patients , has allocated time each week to train nursing staff , hospital social workers and occupational therapists in basic money advice . |
| 10 | Maximum has cut Gen 4 OEM deals with IBM and Hughes STX . |
| 11 | Central Television has announced record pre-tax profits of just over forty one million pounds . |
| 12 | A GAZZA-style injury has put football mad singer Rod Stewart out of the game for a year . |
| 13 | Michael Heseltine has criticised government economic policy , warning that investment incentives are inadequate . |
| 14 | Nancy Harrison has to take life one step at a time … after she found she has osteoporosis , a disease which weakens the skeleton and causes fragile bones . |
| 15 | STRATHCLYDE has rejected building six incinerators to dispose of the 1.8 million tonnes a year of wet sludge dumped in the Firth of Clyde . |
| 16 | MCI Communications Corp has begun service this week on the PacRim East fibre optic cable system , the first such cable to link the US and Australia : the Washington company says it is the second-largest investor in PacRim East , which is used by 34 other international carriers and stretches 4,774 miles from Hawaii to New Zealand , and on to Australia via the Tasman-2 cable . |
| 17 | While the election has badly dented ratings for television news and current affairs programmes , it has improved Radio 4 audiences , according to BBC figures . |
| 18 | Will he confirm that hoteliers and those who so successfully manage tourist attractions in Wales will not suffer the problems that beset their colleagues in England because of the Secretary of State for Employment who has suspended section 4 assistance ? |
| 19 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 20 | Well , that would have given mother quiet satisfaction . ’ |
| 21 | The patients reported at 0900 after an overnight fast and having discontinued acid inhibitory drugs two weeks earlier . |
| 22 | Anthony Phillips may have quit Genesis twenty-two years ago , but he has never stopped exploring the musical landscape that was once uniquely their own . |
| 23 | To her disappointment Nahum only seemed to visit the old and sick , and after the first few days he no longer took her with him , having suffered embarrassment each time he introduced his new wife whose youth could n't be disguised . |
| 24 | She will have bought Dad another tie , Mum will get something smelly for her bath , Gran will get a scarf and I will get another bookmark . |
| 25 | BR could claim that even before the Monopoly Commission report 's comments on the need for a new rolling-stock policy it was moving towards the development of stock for use on all regions , having introduced Class 313 25kV AC/750V DC ( dual voltage ) inner-suburban stock in 1976 for the Great Northern electrification scheme followed in 1978 by Class 507 750V DC third-rail stock for Merseyrail ( Midland Region ) ; and Class 314 25kV AC stock in Scotland . |
| 26 | We may have to consider paracentesis this time . |
| 27 | Ironically , having entered muon catalysed fusion initially to get away from the frenzy of high energy particle physics , Jones was about to be catapulted into greater media attention and controversy than a career in particle physics was ever likely to have given him ! |
| 28 | Before you get to 91 you should have found Radio 2 FM at least once , maybe in two or three places , so pick the one that is clearest . |
| 29 | It was getting late when , prompted by the thought of having to start work next morning , she paid her bill and reluctantly set off back to the hotel . |
| 30 | Kampuchea and Laos would correspondingly have welcomed Southeast Asian neutralisation in the early 1970s , while Indonesia regarded itself too grand for a neutralised status . |