Example sentences of "have [vb pp] this [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my wife , who is a Russian speaker , has witnessed this particular drama and says it is n't a Slav language . |
| 2 | But , although some doctors consider that the baby has genuine physical pain , others believe that this is an example of the baby reacting to the tensions of the mother at the end of a hard day : and they believe that the crying stops after 10 to 12 weeks because by then the mother has become more competent and confident in her handling of the baby , and has communicated this new calmness to the baby . ’ |
| 3 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 4 | She has given this rich stone a 1990s look by setting it in delicate modern mounts for necklaces , earrings ( above ) , and rings . |
| 5 | Trembling with anger he said : ‘ Someone out there must know who has committed this terrible crime . |
| 6 | Frank has organised this novel method of fund raising — final date for offers is December 14 . |
| 7 | No Prime Minister has enjoyed this twice-weekly brains trust — and Margaret Thatcher was no exception — but few Prime Ministers did it as well or as consistently . |
| 8 | Jeff Banks has designed this cropped swing coat ( £95 ) with matching shorts ( £39.99 ) and A-line button back tunic ( £85 ) exclusively for House of Fraser Stores ( 071 834 1515 ) |
| 9 | Hairdresser or the Year Trevor Sorbie has added this new styling product to his range to make achieving ‘ the set ’ much easier . |
| 10 | Since 1947 the O'Neill family has owned this fine Georgian building into which they have introduced the highest standards of comfort while retaining its original character and creating an atmosphere of charm and warmth . |
| 11 | Most impressive of all , Barth has built this moving plot on one of the oldest stock properties of literature — the notion of life as a voyage . |
| 12 | Thankfully , he has seen this simple act as one of friendship rather than for what it really is — I am afraid of him and I want him on my side . |
| 13 | What has happened since 1960 has turned this ancient social welfare institution into the country 's leading tertiary hospital referral , teaching , and medical research system . |
| 14 | Grätzel has turned this precise , and expensive , physicist 's approach to solar energy conversion on its head . |
| 15 | But since then , the pace of the development of science has made this impossible . |
| 16 | So my dark covering has made this great fruition . |
| 17 | The recent trend towards ‘ super-ministries ’ taking on several different but related areas of policy has made this political division of labour particularly important . |
| 18 | Dangerous animals do not attack unless an individual has made this possible through his or her incorrect behaviour . |
| 19 | Milner implies that only the development of modern ( structuralist ) linguistics has made this possible , and certainly the work of Hockett ( 1977 ) , Milner himself , Nash ( 1985 ) and now Chiaro ( who draws quite heavily on Hockett ) provides detailed linguistic and structural analyses of the different kinds of word- and sound-play that are exploited in jokes . |
| 20 | The generosity of Dermot McGlade of the Shandon Hotel at Marble Hill Strand — a great friend to the club — has made this big day possible . |
| 21 | The Anglican Information Office , a corporate member of WACC , has produced this new publication to follow up on Getting into Print which it published in 1975 . |
| 22 | Nopw the National Osteoporosis Society has produced this new information booklet . |
| 23 | That is , when success occurs occasionally , not every time , and in a fairly random fashion , the behaviour that has produced this variable success becomes very ingrained and is difficult to eradicate . |
| 24 | As with other examples of apparent technical brilliance , it is natural selection that has produced this innate behaviour , rather than any genius on the part of the house martin . |
| 25 | He has had this terrible illness , but he is full of hope . |
| 26 | Whitfield ( 1979 ) has used this correlational approach to analyse the functions of the auditory cortex . |
| 27 | But he has got this marvellous voice and he . |
| 28 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 29 | A friend of both of them , who has watched this unhappy saga unfold over the last decade , now concedes : ‘ I am sorry for the tragedy of it all . |
| 30 | To combine informality and friendliness whilst maintaining the highest standards of service and food is a rare achievement but Jean-Pierre has mastered this difficult art . |