Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The present building has had much rebuilding including restoration work in 1973 .
2 The outflow of labour from agriculture has denuded many villages of their working populations and replaced them by inhabitants who work in towns and cities and who are not dependent upon farming for their living .
3 I would like to thank the Curwen Archives Trust whose generous grant has made this publication possible .
4 Since his tragic mishap , the former marathon runner has accomplished many projects including an outward bound course , abseiling and canoeing .
5 IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope .
6 Intel Corp has found another patent that it thinks is being infringed , and has asked the US International Trade Commission to investigate the import from Taiwan of Twinhead Inc 's Slimnote notebook computers , and put a ban on them .
7 Unisys Corp has taken another step in its return to fiscal probity with an upgrading of its debt from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which moved the senior unsecured debt rating up to Ba3 from B1 , the subordinated debt to B2 from B3 and the preferred stock to b3 from ca .
8 Getting there swifter and more often British Rail has announced more services linking Cleveland with other parts of the region , and promised faster journeys from Darlington to Middlesbrough and Saltburn .
9 This need to attract statutory funding and support has necessitated many compromises , one of which has been to ‘ straighten ’ our image .
10 Link correspondent has reported many employees ' weddings in the past , but now she has become a bride herself .
11 The decision has incensed many civilians , and prompted demonstrations .
12 This decision has provoked much animus among many who knew him and believed in him , sustaining the view that he had planned to ditch the Labour government .
13 The click means the word processor has typed that character onto the screen .
14 Other work in progress has examined this issue in one district where it seems that the other community services are so much less well organized than the special service that managers have found it impossible to prevent that service being undermined by lack of staff , continuity , training , and good practice leadership .
15 First , the APU has put more stress on disseminating survey information which has implications for teaching .
16 The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime .
17 It is by no means certain that the Tory tax offensive has gained much ground .
18 The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’
19 Within Judaism and Christianity , Psalm 23 for instance has spawned many misunderstandings .
20 However , the all too familiar constraint of funding has prevented much progress to date .
21 The mathematically confusing and politically risky question of local government funding has worried both administrations .
22 The water level has undergone many changes in past history , due to natural and , more recently , to man-made factors .
23 It will , of course , seldom happen that after the buyer has had some benefit , the contract is avoided by section 7 because usually by the time the goods are delivered to the buyer risk will have passed to him ; section 7 applies only where the goods perish before the risk passes to the buyer .
24 This will occur if for example the buyer has had some use of the goods and subsequently they perished thereby frustrating the contract .
25 Linfield 's new strip has caused some controversy with certain fans complaining that there is n't enough ‘ blue ’ in it ; Lotto are planning a darker hue for next season .
26 NMW is launching a new award for the silliest job title in Britain ‘ to demonstrate the degree to which posing has penetrated many companies , at the cost of performance ’ .
27 The true moral has escaped most philosophers who use the story .
28 The 22-year-old Bath back-row forward 's astonishing winding road to glory has taken more twists than a roller-coaster , the most recent providing ample proof ‘ that somebody up there has decided I am going to make it ’ .
29 Parliament has filled this gap by creating the offence of making off without payment in s.3 of the Theft Act 1978 .
30 In the five years since this judgment , Parliament has shown little interest , although the Labour Party has endorsed a proposal that those in the distribution business should be under a legal obligation to supply any publication requested by their customers — a reform which would require abolition of the rule that distributors can be held responsible for particular defamations of which they have no knowledge but which are nonetheless contained in libel-prone publications .
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