Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pylons proposal , which the NGC says is necessary to cope with electricity from a new power station at Wilton , has received a further setback . |
| 2 | One of my Oscars has developed a lower jaw which is twisted . |
| 3 | ( The position in Canada , however , is somewhat different since the union movement there — probably because of the different system of government — has developed a broader view of political ideology and has close ties with the New Democratic Party . ) |
| 4 | We can preserve , conserve , store , freeze , can , bottle , jar or produce doorstep-fresh anything you want ( short of the snowflake ) , but as a result of this , a greater understanding of the very composition of food has become necessary , which in turn has given a deeper insight into handling systems . |
| 5 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 6 | BNFL 's donation towards the scheme is £25,000 while Sellafield Charity Snowball Committee has given a further £2,000 . |
| 7 | This situation has given a further boost to the microelectronics industry , which now has the incentive to apply its research and development programmes to telecommunications . |
| 8 | But that charge was thrown out at Gloucester Crown Court last month and now the prosecution has dropped a further assault charge . |
| 9 | Only AA has reported a larger rise in fee income so far , at 12.7% . |
| 10 | Recent work in the eastern suburbs on the later winged-corridor building has added a further complexity , revealing an important sequence of later Iron-Age ditched enclosures alongside a stream , in one of which lay a two-phase timber round house associated with pottery , slag , bone and worked flints . |
| 11 | The agreement reached between SCOTVEC and SCOTCAT members — and between SCOTVEC and BTEC — has added a further dimension to the flexibility and widened opportunities for candidates which are the hallmark of our new advanced courses . |
| 12 | He has added a further submission , namely that what is sought here is an extreme exercise of judicial power , namely the right to force doctors to administer treatment against their will . |
| 13 | ‘ With our own staff I believe the Company has fostered a greater sense of confidence in what it is seeking to achieve and the way it is going about achieving it . |
| 14 | For a given outlay of local currency it has ensured a higher value of imports than would have been available under a market valuation of the currency . |
| 15 | The resulting interpretation of the couplet is no spectacular advance on the appropriate sense many readers attain very quickly ; but our investigation has built a surer foundation for the validity of the interpretation . |
| 16 | The longer term has seen a greater willingness on the part of the judiciary to challenge the exercise by Ministers and civil servants of their discretionary powers . |
| 17 | As Donald J. Olsen has written : ‘ With the possible exception of Canada , Britain has seen a closer relationship between railways and hotels than any other country . ’ |
| 18 | Now the exercise has moved a further step forward , with yarn ranges presented to knitwear manufacturers and retailers . |
| 19 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 20 | It is entitled ’ Myth of the tax rebels ’ and it says : ’ Over the last decade the Government has done a better job of blowing local authorities to smithereens than Guy Fawkes . |
| 21 | Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter . |
| 22 | The Commissioner has adopted a higher profile recently by exhibiting at various professional gatherings . |
| 23 | Yet , as we have noted , more recent work has adopted a wider focus and a more analytical approach to the subject . |
| 24 | The advent of the private car has made a greater percentage of the population mobile , we can reach many different areas today by private car . |
| 25 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 26 | Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted . |
| 27 | He lost Manoj Prabhakar , carried away by the exuberance of his own and everybody else 's strokeplay , but Kapil Dev survives - and he is the only Indian who has made a faster Test hundred than Azharuddin 's . |
| 28 | Madam Speaker , arising out of question time today , the leader of the house the leader of the house told the house that the Prime Minister has made a further statement on the back to basics policy , now since this has er we are told er permeated the whole of government policy since the prime minister 's speech to the party conference last October , is n't it time er that the Prime Minister was asked not to give statements to correspondents and at er press conferences , but made a statement to this house about the back to basics policy and at the very least , placed a copy of his speech and his thinkings on the back to basics policy in the library . |
| 29 | In the week that council leaders meet for the annual conference of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane , he has made a further appeal for a less confrontational relationship , and one which puts people and the quality of services before politics . |
| 30 | A woman accused of stealing thousands of pounds from a charity that she helped set up has made a further appearance in court . |