Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing . |
| 2 | A horse that has spotted a possible predator arouses other horses ' attention in this way , and they all prepare for flight . |
| 3 | Violent headaches which may be from exposure to a dry cold wind that has stopped a nasal catarrh from flowing . |
| 4 | Moreover , it has a culture which is built on a history of defensive skirmishes and has generated a metaphorical language of warfare which looms large in all of its structures of significance . |
| 5 | Sri Lanka had been at the forefront of Asian intellectual thinking and had gained a good reputation for human rights and civil liberty before these recent years of violence and oppression . |
| 6 | THORN EMI Software , the computer services division of the electronics and entertainment group , has been bought out by its staff and management in an £82m deal and has taken a new name . |
| 7 | The officials who control Premier League and Football League matches want a better deal and have produced a 14-page discussion document listing their main problems . |
| 8 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 9 | He began in the then Sales Department and has retained a special interest in the public house operations side of the business . |
| 10 | For twenty five years he has been a member of Equity and has played a different number of roles . |
| 11 | No reduction in damages was made for the plaintiff 's failure to wear a seat belt even though he was found after the collision hanging out of the defendant 's car and had suffered a severe blow to the head . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The cadet centre is out of sight at the rear of Marton Sixth Form College and has suffered a dramatic drop in numbers attending . ’ |
| 13 | In early March Saudi Arabian companies had started trucking food into Kuwait and had launched a major refuse clearing operation . |
| 14 | On my smallholding , I have lofts above the cow-byre and have built a traditional-style three-bay barn of concrete blocks and slate roof . |
| 15 | Throughout this period older men and women in this country have preferred to live in their own homes and have maintained a strong belief in independence . |
| 16 | ‘ But for SeaCat the Northern Ireland public would still be travelling in mundane vessels and having to pay a hefty price for the privilege . ’ |
| 17 | Manager Ray Hankin has no injury worries but has delayed a final choice . |
| 18 | Nor do the majority of umpires when having found a satisfactory distance at which to stand . |
| 19 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 20 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 21 | The recourse to respirators and cardiac pace-makers that has made a legal definition of death based upon the absence of breathing and heartbeat outmoded is a good example . |
| 22 | Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses ! |
| 23 | In looking at him , Maria sees an aspect of herself , Pierre sees the outcome of the jealousy — a death — and the reader witnesses an internal struggle that has found a public stage . |
| 24 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
| 25 | Once it meant political independence and freedom from commercial pressures , but given the increasingly prescriptive and bureaucratic nature of grant-aid that has become a dubious notion . |
| 26 | There were several species , most were about the size of those living today but with the dragonflies as with millipedes and other groups that have pioneered a new environment , the absence of competition allowed some early forms to develop to an enormous size , and dragonflies eventually appeared with a wingspan of 70 centimetres , the largest insects ever to exist . |
| 27 | A reduction of at least 30% in child mortality due to diarrhoeal diseases has now been found by all trials that have found a significant effect on overall mortality and have also examined causes of death . |
| 28 | Except in a few isolated instances , there has been little systematic planning in relation to most countries ' social welfare personnel training needs and resources and there has been very limited involvement in find some countries and schools of social work that have adopted a comprehensive approach to social service personnel training and development and are directing their efforts toward maximizing the contribution of all available human resources to their country 's or region 's social development goals . |
| 29 | Figure E9.1 gives the age-sex profiles for two countries that have experienced a good deal of immigration . |
| 30 | And all the hardware and systems companies that have made a precarious living gathering up the crumbs under IBM 's table . |