Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And your setting will be even more integrated into your book than was the setting in the sort of story I have called a backgrounder .
2 I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention .
3 By means of the Alexander Technique I have acquired an awareness of where my body is in space which means I am now able to control my muscle tension by means of my brain ; this is essential if I was ever to maintain a posture without straining my body unconsciously .
4 And during the past two decades of my involvement with the people of the Alto I have seen a discourse on nervos and sickness replace a discourse on angry hunger .
5 With that thought in mind we have produced a chart which reveals the extent to which business involving the recording of Irish bands and artists has gone abroad in recent years .
6 As many of our readers are non-members we have included a page ‘ What is the NCT ’ .
7 We have contributed to numerous guidance notes on new regulations across a wide range of industrial , service and commercial sections through Steven we have submitted a draft proposal on a directive covering upper limb disorders to the European Commission we 'll be putting further proposals for the establishment of a European work environment fund to assist workplace activity , workplace research on health and safety and environmental issues .
8 In this and the previous chapter we have discussed a number of groups of computer instructions , oriented to the principal data-types and operations for which the computer is designed .
9 British Airways legal director Merwyn Walker says : ‘ For several months we have endured a campaign of very serious allegations made against us by Virgin and Branson .
10 Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers .
11 B : ‘ For about nine months we have had a succession of builders , surveyors and decorators trooping in and out .
12 Once students have achieved Compact goals they have gained an entitlement to an offer of employment from a Compact employer .
13 In some areas we have measured a contamination which is much bigger than in the Minimata incident in the Japan .
14 In Lucozade Sport we have secured a brand with an excellent reputation , which clearly prizes its involvement with sporting excellence . ’
15 Under the 1944 Education Act they have had a duty to provide this for numerous categories of children : the blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially hearing , physically handicapped , delicate , maladjusted , epileptic , educationally subnormal , children with speech defects , and the autistic .
16 As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’
17 This evening I have attempted a contribution to the work by taking the Plowden propositions and suggesting that if they are true in theory they demand recognition in practice .
18 In light rain I have measured an increase of about 8 knots in the speed for the pre-stall buffet and stall of a K13 , although the stall itself did not seem to have changed in character .
19 In the last few years I have done a lot of float fishing from a punt for big bream and I can state quite categorically that , if it is done correctly , it can be a most deadly method of catching bream .
20 For the past seven years I have run a job share register on behalf of the British Paediatric Association .
21 Over the years I have had an interest in medical matters and have been involved from a legal viewpoint on a number of occasions .
22 For years I have had an interest in phenomenology , the attempt to get behind , understand and interpret the way others see the world .
23 During the last two years I have spent a total of 15 minutes a day with my son 's diaper bucket and can deal quickly with even the most challenging mess .
24 Er we 've been in , ten years in this shop and er , for those ten years I have experienced a lot of er difference in the attitudes of Muslim women as well .
25 For example , if during the separation period you have attempted a reconciliation for five months then you must wait
26 A second treatment with the product you have used a week later will make doubly sure the lice have all been eradicated .
27 ‘ Since the Chancellor 's announcement we have had a lot of inquiries which we are confident of turning into sales , ’ says Rover dealer Ashmall Parkinson salesman David Bailey .
28 Since that point we have taken a number of steps to reduce students ' reliance on benefits .
29 In the past two days we have heard a lot about students .
30 ‘ But within the last few days we have received a letter from our insurance assessor that gives us fresh hope .
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