Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 2 | An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly these measures have been controversial , and a central-local battle has developed with a strong party political character . |
| 6 | Families and the law Investigators : Dr R W Dingwall , J M Eekelaar , M Maclean The Centre 's work in the field of family law has developed through a series of related projects clustered around a clearly focused concern with the interests of children as members of families and as individuals and with the economic and other consequences of marriage breakdown . |
| 7 | Gooch has developed as a captain , too , pulling strings whereas before he might have retreated . |
| 8 | Gooch has developed as a captain , too , pulling strings whereas before he might have retreated . |
| 9 | Though deregulation is a difficult concept to define , the reshaping process which has developed as a result of it is readily apparent . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the British National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) has developed as a strongly formed collectivity in a very different way . |
| 11 | Language has developed as a sign system — one of the ways in which humans communicate and make sense of the world around them . |
| 12 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 13 | The bar here is a major meeting point for 18–30 's and many an early evening drink has developed into a fully blown party night of the spontaneous kind . |
| 14 | After forty-eight hours the egg has developed into a free-swimming and feeding larva . |
| 15 | Over the last forty years , farming has developed into a highly intensive manufacturing business . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Through the display hangar , NAM has become not just a local attraction and amenity , but has developed into a regional , if not national , venue . |
| 18 | ‘ Ince has developed into a player of substance and people forget he is still only 24 . |
| 19 | Labour history too has developed into a recognizable historical research area and women 's history is following suit . |
| 20 | Dead empires have bred leaping ambition ; international politics has developed into a struggle between competing ethnic groups ; the United Nations has to pick an impossible path between respect for sovereignty and respect for nationalism . |
| 21 | ‘ Photography has developed into a weapon of resistance in the constant struggle for survival , ’ Mr Müller said . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Scientific debate about this has developed into a veritable battle of faith . |
| 24 | In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | A mixture of language ( usually incorporating English or French ) which has developed into a language in its own right . |
| 27 | Kevin Wilson was another who had a fine game ; he has developed into a player Northern Ireland can not afford to be without . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |