Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 2 | One of its subsidiaries has developed a machine capable of extracting the harmful gas from refrigeration plant with a environmentally sound technique . |
| 3 | Article 18 imposes an obligation on a State which has signed but not yet ratified a treaty , or which has ratified a convention prior to its entry into force , not to act so as to defeat the objects and purposes of the convention . |
| 4 | The leisure group , which has a significant holding in Rank Xerox , has included a summary unaudited balance sheet in its interim report for the first time ( the report covers the 28 weeks ended 16 May 1992 ) . |
| 5 | Besides , Sharpe 's caution is justified since Graham Taylor has picked a team full of players itching to be the one whose finger pulls the trigger that will release the World Cup tension of the past few months — and in the process bring much-needed relief to manager Graham Taylor and his backroom team . |
| 6 | Dr Gary Coles has designed a sensor accurate enough to monitor tiny changes in exhaust gases given off while the vehicle is being driven . |
| 7 | Terry has designed a PVC-covered three foot foam mat with an eight inch deep cut-out for fish to be laid in while the fishing hook is removed . |
| 8 | For the first time in 14 years , the country 's top sprinter , currently sunning himself in Australia , has decided to skip the event at which he has won a record nine men 's titles . |
| 9 | Now , however , it has suffered a fate common to most of Darlington 's fountains , and been relegated to a forgotten corner . |
| 10 | THROUGH no fault of its own , the most westerly village in Northern Ireland has suffered a demoralising 20 years of decline . |
| 11 | GLOBAL electronic mail , with desktop computers linking Courtaulds businesses round the world , has moved a step nearer reality . |
| 12 | A proposed rail link between Oxford , Aylesbury and Milton Keynes has moved a step nearer reality this afternoon with the decision by Buckinghamshire County Council to invest in the project . |
| 13 | Despite the best efforts of one or two of her hon. Friends , I do not believe that the debate has revealed a party political difference on anything other than the very narrow issue of an advertising ban . |
| 14 | I think you know , Lincolnshire has done a dam good job for the people in Lincolnshire whether it in roads , whether it be old peoples homes , or whether it be in schools , whether it be in fire stations , police stations , I admit to where one could say across the board , they could compare , that they could compare , they might compare they might live in one area and work in another . |
| 15 | Tuberculosis , for which no vaccine is available , has shown a decline similar to whooping cough , as has scarlet fever which seemed to ‘ burn itself out ’ . |
| 16 | Scolt Head Island , the most fully developed offshore bar on the Norfolk coast , has had a history comparable with the above idealised conditions . |
| 17 | Helpfully , the council added that : ‘ It should be pointed out that this action would be taken against all allotment holders , whether or not any individual holder has had a bonfire prior to the service of a notice . |
| 18 | Indeed , the system has already been developed , but up until now it has been deployed on a carrier-by-carrier basis at Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and at Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which has had a pilot Intelligent Network centre that uses the Northern and Tandem products in operation for the last year . |
| 19 | Tavernier , who is a native Lyon , Birmingham 's twin town , has had a life long love affair with cinema . |
| 20 | The Irish Bank Officials ' Association has had a claim outstanding since then and it has now reached the stage of the Labour Court . |
| 21 | Santa Cruz has to date kept a very low profile in Japan , although it has had a product available on NEC 9800 series personal computers for some years . |
| 22 | However , it must be stated that anyone who has used a code driven word processing program ought to be capable of achieving results fairly quickly . |
| 23 | So that 's the background of why I 'm giving this as long retired er tax inspector the mean , my own department has got a bit mean . |
| 24 | now has got a cost more in the initial |
| 25 | Yeah mum has got a towel dirty . |
| 26 | But erm lately he has got a lot worse . |
| 27 | The Captain stops writing and listens more intently to the speaker on the wall — the PIN net has got a lot busier all of a sudden . |
| 28 | Oh dear , well I could say er work has got a lot easier for a start , a lot easier and they ai n't as , they ai n't as , there ai n't so much night work as there used to be . |
| 29 | Pyramid has supplied a MIServer 2S running Data Centre OSx , Pyramid 's version of Unix SVR4 , along with Oracle and Ingres database software . |
| 30 | Robert Gates , the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , has told a Senate select committee that forty years of inadequate nuclear waste handling have created high risk of nuclear disasters in the former Soviet Union . |