Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Premiums have gone up an average 17 per cent this year . |
| 2 | In many cases the becak drivers have put up a fight to prevent their livelihood from being carted off . |
| 3 | Her parents have set up a trust fund and this competition . |
| 4 | ( First Edition ) WARRINGTON have turned down a transfer request from Neil Harmon , their 21-year-old prop forward . |
| 5 | ‘ The new production quotas have stirred up a hornet 's nest — and that 's without the added difficulty of a flu epidemic . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Companies have taken out a tier of management to save money , appointing financial controllers as directors designate , ’ warns Mr Austin . |
| 7 | As far as anyone knows this is the first time legal eagles have taken on a businessman as boss . |
| 8 | Will he explain why he and the Chancellor have ruled out a manufacturing investment incentive as demanded by the CBI and other organisations ? |
| 9 | TWO Lanarkshire businessmen have set up a reprographics firm which aims to compete with Middle and Far East firms for orders originating in Scotland , writes John Hatfield . |
| 10 | Indeed , to the extent that inflationary expectations have built up a momentum of their own that it regards as excessive , the government may be forced to adopt demand management policies which aim to raise the unemployment rate above the natural rate so as to throw the process outlined above into reverse gear . |
| 11 | Many bands have taken on a style of clothes which they bought second-hand . |
| 12 | The contracts which western utilities signed in the 1970s and 1980s to reprocess their nuclear waste have taken on a life of their own . |
| 13 | Occasionally governments have opened up a discussion by publishing a ‘ Green Paper ’ which set out alternative possibilities . |
| 14 | Top equity and foreign exchange dealers have picked up a minimum of £200,000 before bonuses and perks — the real whiz-kids making upwards of £300,000 . |
| 15 | Although managers have drawn up a list of personalities who could be invited to open the centre , identities were not revealed . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Field & Trek have opened up a branch in the High Street . |
| 17 | These changes have brought about a reduction of inequality in education throughout the region . |
| 18 | THOSE romantic softies at CIC Video have brought out a Ghost gift set . |
| 19 | In fairness , it must be said that the professions have worked out a number of checks and balances to this system , and a common alternative to a percentage fee , hourly rates , can work out as an even more expensive open cheque drawn on the public purse . |
| 20 | The leases have brewed up a storm in Darlington as landlords say they could mean the end of many traditional pubs . |
| 21 | We have a report that four unidentified persons have set up a rocket launcher two hundred yards west of seventeenth green . |
| 22 | At the other end of the scale , however , our machines have picked up a host of animal noises at frequencies above the range of our ears , called ultrasound . |
| 23 | Nevertheless undaunted , since things have moved on a bit since nineteen eighty seven , I suppose what I 'm looking for is some guidance as to the way in which policy I twelve has operated in practice . |
| 24 | Since you signed it 's been a little bit up and down , some goals conceded , not necessarily down to you , so you must be pleased that things have settled down a bit ? |
| 25 | More recently , certain United States government figures have ruled out a settlement which would leave the PDPA as the ‘ backbone of the Kabul Government ’ and they have indicated the unacceptability of the continuation of a ‘ communist front government ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 26 | Paul and Pauline Lavery have set up a branch of the National Meningitis Trust after losing toddler Ian . |
| 27 | That reminds me , did I tell you that the trustees have turned down a request from Annabel ? ’ |
| 28 | Well again since the war and er probably since about the sixties , the garden centres have taken over a lot on that . |
| 29 | Water is a major problem in this arrid region , so local technicians funded by Oxfam have set up a system with water from a local thermal spring , which up until now has been too salty to use . |
| 30 | fags have gone up a penny . |