Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% . |
| 2 | The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly these measures have been controversial , and a central-local battle has developed with a strong party political character . |
| 4 | The preface to any argument for giving history an important position in the school curriculum of the 1990s must be an examination of the way in which history has developed into a multi-skilled discipline which has immense relevance to the general and vocational education of students . |
| 5 | Labour history too has developed into a recognizable historical research area and women 's history is following suit . |
| 6 | Thanks to the constant assistance of the Soviet Union and the selfless labour of the Korean people in the restoration of their country on a democratic basis , the Northern part of our Republic has developed into a powerful military , political , economic and cultural base for the democratic development of the whole country , and has considerably raised the level of material and cultural life of the people of our young Republic . |
| 7 | Through the display hangar , NAM has become not just a local attraction and amenity , but has developed into a regional , if not national , venue . |
| 8 | Scientific debate about this has developed into a veritable battle of faith . |
| 9 | ‘ About art and commercialism , ’ said Brian , ‘ what you should say is this : that advertising has developed into a valuable art-form and the big international companies are the art patrons of today , but instead of just keeping one artist the industry employs thousands of talented people . ’ |
| 10 | It initially developed to provide trade financing for the entrepot centre , but since the multinationals started to arrive in the 1970s it has developed into a sophisticated financial centre . |
| 11 | After forty-eight hours the egg has developed into a free-swimming and feeding larva . |
| 12 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
| 13 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |
| 14 | Curran has argued that advertising pressures have ‘ helped to ensure that it ( the Left press ) has developed in a depoliticised , deradicalised and disabled form ’ : advertising patronage curtails the radical tendencies of the left press . |
| 15 | This would appear to be a higher standard than that required in the United Kingdom where copyright law has developed in a pragmatic rather than principled manner . |
| 16 | The Oxford Polytechnic scheme is sui generis : the extent to which it has developed in a particular context of constraints and opportunities makes many of the decisions it has made and many of the systems it has adopted difficult to transfer to other institutional frameworks . |
| 17 | Among primates , especially close collaboration between parents has developed in a few forest-dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other . |
| 18 | Since the Second World War , executive search in the US has developed from a small cottage industry into a $ multimillion , multinational business which has deeply penetrated American corporate life . |
| 19 | Names after the Arabic for finger , ‘ banan ’ , this slightly curved tropical fruit has developed from a luxury treat into today 's trendy , healthy convenience food . |
| 20 | Improved and expanded since opening in the early 70's the marina has matured into a real alternative to the South Coast . |
| 21 | BRITAIN 'S trade deficit has soared to a seven-month high , partly due to the pound 's devaluation . |
| 22 | To splice a feather back together , after a bird has flown into a barbed wire fence , say , or been in a fight , you have to cut off the damaged feather about ¼ to ½ inch from the base , take a similar feather from a dead bird and cut it to fit . |
| 23 | The Wessex area in the south west , for example , has leaned towards a lecture-based structure in order to convey information . |
| 24 | This chapter has examined from a comparative standpoint a number of important characteristics of trade unions , mainly in relation to industrialised , market-type economies . |
| 25 | And for Americans who can not get enough , CNN has arranged for a gruelling daily schedule of Brinkley on four other topics : food , travel , showbiz and health — laughingly titled Living In The Nineties . |
| 26 | The Bank has arranged for a special travel insurance policy to insure those travelling against a range of mishaps such as personal accident , delayed departure and many other occurrences . |
| 27 | I understand that , in view of the allegations about the conduct of Staffordshire special branch officers , the chief constable of Staffordshire has arranged for a full investigation by the deputy chief constable of another force . |
| 28 | The couple 's apparent reconciliation will have done little to lessen Princess Diana 's anger at the knowledge that the man who once told her he loved her has fallen for a beautiful woman , 10 years younger than herself . |
| 29 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 30 | Unemployment has fallen by a fifth over the past two years to below 8% . |