Example sentences of "a [noun sg] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That man with a beard has just had a breakdown in London 's Burning . |
| 2 | The sculptural group for which it was originally intended as a pedestal has now gone and the proportion of the arch appears too tall and narrow . |
| 3 | The girl looks straight before her , as a statue had always done ; her brother 's head is gently turned and bent . |
| 4 | The anatomy of Aristodikos and the Kritian boy alike is simplified from nature , not quite in the same way , but in both natural forms are perfectly understood ; only Aristodikos stands ( like Euthydikos 's kore ) in the formal way a statue has always stood , the other relaxed as a boy might actually stand . |
| 5 | But because the correspondence between graphological and phonological features is far from precise , it can not be said that a writer has actually represented the speech style of a character . |
| 6 | A heart has just become available for transplant , with a patient waiting for it , so they want to hold blood for that , and for the weekend , when they 're more likely to need it for trauma cases . |
| 7 | For instance , whilst a person may be concerned about the length of notation , this is not usually important to a computer ; moreover , a computer has little use for mnemonics ( it does not forget ! ) . |
| 8 | A vicar has now joined the ranks of the unemployed and signed on the dole . |
| 9 | A buyer has already emerged with a sale agreement being reached in November . |
| 10 | The result is that women typically become ‘ equal ’ by having to do more , to stretch themselves to work as hard as a man , even when experiencing bodily processes that a male has never experienced . |
| 11 | One way of telling whether a horse has completely eliminated the infection is to take follow-up nasal swabs . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think a horse has ever quickened for me so well from the final flight . ’ |
| 13 | She is also a singer and musician , and her talent as a pianist has often come in useful to teachers with specialist classes . |
| 14 | The existence of a partnership has also provided an appropriate forum through which external agencies can be channelled . |
| 15 | How much time must elapse before it can be decided that a programme has seriously degenerated , that it is incapable of leading to the discovery of new phenomena ? |
| 16 | A reply has eventually arrived from the National Dairy Council . |
| 17 | A bruise had already appeared around his left eye and his nose was swollen . |
| 18 | Six years ago the only computer I 'd used was some horrid games machine a girlfriend had once become obsessed with . |
| 19 | The suggestion of hiring a car had almost come from these two ; it had been their talk of the small towns , the cedar woods , the mountains , which had fascinated Dan so much . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're an offensive shit , Bellybutton , ’ I said in a very friendly voice , but he had already turned his attention away from me because a car had suddenly appeared in the yard . |
| 21 | ( He laughs briefly and in a second has never laughed in his life . ) |
| 22 | A holiday-maker had once described the ascent to him as ‘ like going up to Heaven ’ . |
| 23 | Had a call a lady 's just left a message on our reception , to say , Robbo , be careful , it may be a nest of wasps . |
| 24 | A lady has just said one of your earlier callers has just said that Council are out of touch well we should n't be out of touch and that is this exercise you have two councillors on here from different parties showing a concern for the trees . |
| 25 | Clara as a child had fully supported her mother 's attitude , for she was in no way a pretty child ; she was sullen , dirty , and her features were too big for her face . |
| 26 | Into the Finn 's head there had strayed , not to be expelled , the words of an English nursery rhyme that a child had once recited to him . |
| 27 | Runners-up were the Community Network — a telephone conferencing facility for various charities and social groups — and The Rainbow Centre — a small , national charity working with families where a child has either died or suffers from a life-threatening illness . |
| 28 | This is particularly the case when a child has already developed guilt feelings around its own sexuality or sexual matters in general , or where the sexual atmosphere in family or community is repressive or easily shocked . |
| 29 | He has been caught in a machine , or some part of a machine has suddenly broken , with fatal results . |
| 30 | They make good employees for ‘ us ’ : a transfer has now occurred , for the pronoun now refers to commercial enterprises , financed by the World Bank . |