Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does . |
| 2 | Since the middle of the nineteenth century this has produced a persistent surplus of population in the countryside with a consequent depression of wage levels-Rural depopulation has rarely proceeded on a scale to compensate for the reduced demand for labour in rural areas and neither has the demand for labour in the countryside been adequately stimulated by the provision of sufficient alternative employment opportunities to agriculture . |
| 3 | Toxic-shock syndrome reached a peak in 1980 but has since declined to a stable level of about 25 a month . |
| 4 | This has since expanded into a professionally organised system covering the whole country , but we should not forget that it was Harry Barber who began it . |
| 5 | First seen alongside Neneh Cherry , singing and standing on her head with the early-Eighties cult dance band Rip Rig And Panic , Andrea Oliver has since sung with a variety of outfits and , in between organising and cooking for a weekly night at West London 's Globe club , has recently joined forces with Malcolm Joseph ( previously with soul band Seventh Heaven ) to form new band , Her . |
| 6 | Under Article 86 , the Commission has successfully dealt with a number of abuses such as the granting of loyalty rebates ( e.g. Hoffman-la Roche ) , refusals to supply ( e.g. commercial solvents ) , and price discrimination ( Chiquita ) among others . |
| 7 | This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market . |
| 8 | He has used Cow Gum but this has eventually resulted in a yellow stain coming through the paper . |
| 9 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 10 | Over the past few years , that area has rightly moved from a marginalized position in cultural theory to become a focus for discussions around language , female desire and popular narratives . |
| 11 | On these islands the sailor has long featured as a national paradox as both saint and sinner , as both saviour and scamp , as both hero and victim of oppression . |
| 12 | Herman Bosman , a friend of mine , has written about one of his regular clients , who has long resided in a mental hospital . |
| 13 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 14 | However , to date this exciting new technology has only adopted on a voluntary basis . |
| 15 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 16 | Britain has only agreed to a package of £65 billion a year . |
| 17 | At first glance it appears that Braudel has merely hit on a convenient fashion of dividing up the past , to bring it under control and make it easier for historians to encompass . |
| 18 | Patten is expected to address most of the committee 's concerns in his amendments to the bill , but has apparently decided against a public register . |
| 19 | Since this study was published , the number of families coming into these categories has greatly increased as a result of deteriorating economic conditions and changing social circumstances . |
| 20 | The trouble was that the organ was in a rather awkward situation at the base of the skull , below the inion ( that is , the external occipital protuberance ) , a part of the body which , in most ladies , Nature has thoughtfully cloaked with a fine growth of hair . |
| 21 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 22 | YVONNE MURRAY has suddenly emerged as a contender for a trip to the world indoor championships in Toronto next month . |
| 23 | Now it is ‘ threatened ’ with privatisation it has suddenly blossomed into a loved institution bordering on heritage ’ — The Duchess of Devonshire . |
| 24 | At the other end of all this research is the sick child , whose life has suddenly altered in a most dramatic way . |
| 25 | Popular music has thus dissolved from a specifically youth-oriented product at the margins of society into a new type of industry which effectively draws areas that were previously considered private and ‘ hidden ’ in our society into the centre of consumption and governmental strategy . |
| 26 | Use has thus evolved on a pragmatic basis : casual observation by the author showed that vehicles rarely crossed the junction at more than 15 km/h ; that they gave way to walkers and cyclists in nearly every case ( Figure 6.15 ) and indeed that some pedestrians failed even to bother to look for traffic before crossing . |
| 27 | Though he , too , declared the distinction between written and unwritten constitutions old-fashioned , it is a pity that his summary has not served as a starting point for subsequent commentaries on the British ‘ constitution ’ . |
| 28 | However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market . |
| 29 | I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs . |
| 30 | This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained . |