Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With influential links to central government the Eldonian Community in Vauxhall has developed the largest new-build housing co-operative in the country . |
| 2 | We assume that the writer has used the basic historical framework for her story — Wroe 's demand that his flock should provide his household with seven virgins ( female , although this was not specified ) for his ‘ comfort and succour ’ : and that not terribly long afterwards , he was put on trial by his church for alleged naughtiness with two of them . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough has become the first local authority in Cleveland to approve a proposed licensing scheme for doormen . |
| 4 | While the ombudsman has revealed the occasional bureaucratic horror story , he or she lacks some of the powers of his or her opposite number in other systems . |
| 5 | My paper tells me that a dispute over pay between the leading British manufacturer of seaside rock and his chief sugar boiler has left the latter jobless and the former with umpteen sticks of rocks bearing the legend Mean Bastard all the way through . |
| 6 | This weekend Mr Gorbachev has walked the finest diplomatic tightrope . |
| 7 | Of the dailies , Today 's circulation has registered the worst seasonal drop , falling to 466,631 from 513,673 . |
| 8 | In vetoing repeated efforts by the state legislature to adopt the death penalty ( it is still one vote short of a veto override ) , Mr Cuomo has taken the moral high ground — and does not seem to have lost votes by doing so . |
| 9 | The dale is dominated at its lower end by two scars , Great Coum and Combe Scar , both carved out by the passing glaciers , while the sweeping fells of Barbondale mark the point at which the Dent fault has thrust the older Silurian gritstones thousands of feet above their original bed . |
| 10 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 11 | Inhibition of gastric acid secretion has become the traditional medical treatment for reflux oesophagitis . |
| 12 | They say the Government 's willingness to over-subsidise private old people 's homes has caused the 300-plus empty spaces at the county 's 42 council-run homes . |
| 13 | THEFT has become the fastest growing business with more than £2 billion worth of goods stolen every year , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 14 | Gen Aoun has rejected the Arab League-brokered peace accord under which Mr Hrawi was elected last month . |
| 15 | The attempt to revive Monaghan Day was a gesture as weak as a couple who marry in order to try to retrieve a lost relationship , the mind having changed the hard actual fact into what was comfortable to feel . |
| 16 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 17 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 18 | She muttered incoherently but the sound was happy , and her eyes had lost the terrible haunted stare of madness . |
| 19 | The report claimed that Khmer Rouge fighters had attacked the 5th military region 's command based in the city as well as Bek Chan airport . |
| 20 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 21 | On arrival in the kitchens they found that the domestic superintendent had followed the correct first-aid procedure for scalds and burns and the two ladies , although suffering from shock , had already had ice packs administered to their injuries . |
| 22 | This provided Railfreight with valuable contracts for long-distance bulk coil traffic , traffic which would not have materialised if the steel industry had survived the 1980s unscathed . |
| 23 | The SLA had accused the other main guerrilla group , the Tucayana Amazonicas led by Thomas Sabajo , of furthering its own ambitions by accepting guns and ammunition from the army . |
| 24 | Applegarth had joined the International Working Men 's Association ( the First International ) in January 1865 , a few months after its foundation , and at the third congress in Brussels in June 1868 he was elected chairman of the general council . |
| 25 | He said Syria had asked the International Red Cross to arrange the man 's return . |
| 26 | Mummy 's got the longest red blue . |
| 27 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 28 | Science 's egocentric constricted views in relation to consciousness and mind have reduced the human mental condition almost to that of a robot 's , with ‘ mystic mumbo jumbo ’ being the label placed on the canons of the sublime Eastern ‘ Science of Life ’ . |
| 29 | Some of the shops have kept the picturesque arcaded windows . |
| 30 | SENIOR office-bearers in one of the Scottish National Party 's Lanarkshire branches have made the first formal call for the party leader , Alex Salmond , to resign . |