Example sentences of "[verb] have [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NBS was good idea when first introduced , but gradually it has had less an less interest shown in it . |
| 2 | When I s first spoke to you erm earlier I mean , like last week , erm you were telling me er something about erm the involvement that this branch has had with the local community . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what recent meetings he has had with the National Union of Mineworkers to discuss the proposed pit closures ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 4 | This explains the attraction soft conventionalism has had for a recent generation of legal philosophers . |
| 5 | ‘ This is one that Alan has had for a long period of time , ’ Mr Cross said . |
| 6 | Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses . |
| 7 | This was a complicated structure of a two-tier core plus an elective area ( see Chapter 3 for details ) , and it is uncertain how much effect it has had on the actual practice of schools . |
| 8 | But what if we want to investigate the impact that a new motorway has had on the surrounding area ? |
| 9 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |
| 10 | We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 11 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 12 | Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ? |
| 13 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 14 | " All right then ? " he said , smiling again , his head a little on one side , a gesture he 'd had as a small boy . |
| 15 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 16 | Under that system , which we will begin to have under the Labour Government , we would not have to worry about dispensing public funds to private solicitors . |
| 17 | Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed . |
| 18 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 19 | As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win . |
| 20 | He had lost whatever little respect he might have had for the old guard of English political life . |
| 21 | What you do have on the furthest extent of Nottingham , are the council estates of Rise Park , Bestwood Park , and Top Valley in the North . |
| 22 | A first step in the process is to examine the gap between what the company income is likely to be from the products now in production and the income that it wishes to have over the next planning period . |
| 23 | One of our basic problems is that modern scientific medicine and the society which it serves have to a great extent forgotten who and what human beings are . |
| 24 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 25 | However , even after several years , his paces never regained the natural , easy , long-stepping flow they had had as a paddocked youngster ; and his personality could be kindly described as awkward , and certainly was n't to be trusted . |
| 26 | Half-a-dozen old retainers acted as anchor-men in the positions they had had in the previous cabinet . |
| 27 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
| 28 | But the effect I 've had on the straight world , the fact that they come to me and they feel comfortable , half knowing that maybe I 've been involved in … what to them is alternative sexuality , is a positive thing . ’ |
| 29 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
| 30 | I think it is tough for BD because the midfield have their own way of playing which they 've had since the first season back , and Chapman knew where to be cos they built it round him . |