Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1980s , the economic recession has produced a trend towards takeovers and mergers in the international record industry . |
| 2 | Chairman Michael started off on a nice tripartisan note which er I think we on this side er did appreciate and it 's true that this panel er has agreed a great deal , covered a lot of ground and er I think er avoided the sort of er , er controversy etc. , etc. , was which we 're now caring now we are arranging in practical groups does mean the Labour groups has introduced a sound note er Brian started off by saying that the Conservatives er were not interested in an economic development strategy , er I must point out that and this activity derives from the local government managing act nineteen eighty nine , and by the present Government . |
| 3 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 4 | Although the plaintiffs in that case had reached a compromise with the assignee and the surety , it specifically did not involve releasing the assignee from the liability to pay the arrears of rent . |
| 5 | The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging both sides to accept arbitration from the International Court of Justice in The Hague . |
| 6 | Since the nineteen fifties each base has had a side . |
| 7 | Subsequently , after the Second World War , that practice has become a token at Memorial Services on the nearest Sunday to the eleventh of November each year . |
| 8 | Though neither Reagan nor any of his aides has formulated it in so many words , I think that the failure of standard economic remedies has created a kind of desperation , and , like a jilted lover , the administration is ready to take up with any attractive candidate . |
| 9 | Its regional organizer has negotiated a company agreement with the Board , the main points of which are detailed above . |
| 10 | Europe 's supercomputing industry has received a boost with unveiling by German company Parsytec of plans for a new range of parallel machines . |
| 11 | Unnecessary jealousies had formed a chasm that nothing could bridge . |
| 12 | Mr Smith said it was a ‘ curious coincidence that the prospect of political defeat has caused a revisal of the legal opinion ’ . |
| 13 | What you got ta do is , each card , if you they ar the person in front of you asks the co the question and if you get it right you get that card and each card has got a letter on it and you got ta try and make up sex maniac . |
| 14 | Er , might as well move the next one in and that cell 's got a file linking formulae which is updated cos of the files in the memory . |
| 15 | The Institute 's Technical Department has published a booklet on Accounting Records and the Smaller Company , price £2 ( p 97 ) . |
| 16 | He arrived at a time when converging philosophical , political , scientific , and economic influences had inspired a number of English landowners to transform their estates into prosperous miniature centres for civilized living . |
| 17 | High-flying Currie has completed a course in parachuting , and he 's due to make a charity jump at Garvagh today , when he hopes to raise up to £1,000 to help the fight to save the South Tyrone Hospital 's maternity unit from closure . |
| 18 | I agreed with him , even if Posh Porky had won a scholarship to some place called St Paul 's , which in any case was miles away in Hammersmith . |
| 19 | In accordance with the adopted procedure the Secretary of State consulted the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge before determining when the date of the first review should occur after each applicant had served a term of imprisonment to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 20 | 1984 ) , the history of social policy in this field has bequeathed a legacy of disregard for the potential of the family as a continuing source of security for children identified in some way as being at risk . |
| 21 | In recent years , the life-history technique has had a revival in sociological research , being used by those who wish to develop ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 22 | GERMAN researchers have found a technique to ‘ switch on ’ small groups of atoms on the surface of a crystal . |
| 23 | ‘ We-e-e-ll — ’ The fatal pause , and my fate was sealed and British Rail had lost a customer . |
| 24 | British Rail has given a figure of £1.4 billion for the construction of the station complex . |
| 25 | ‘ Let's pretend our train has got 25 loads on it , let's pretend British Rail has got a locomotive which can actually pull 25 loads over Shap Fell and let's assume it is 100 per cent full , ’ he continued . |
| 26 | BRITISH Rail has launched a winter sale , with cut-price deals on long-distance Saver tickets . |
| 27 | Shyness in this instance has proved a virtue and its resulting insularity and independence a blessing . |
| 28 | I and an ‘ ex-student ’ of this course have formed a university base for clinical forensic medicine within a division of legal medicine attached to the department of pathological studies of Manchester University . |
| 29 | That court has , on more than one occasion , held that a decision of the English courts has violated a litigant 's rights under article 10 and this on occasion has led to Parliament having to change the substantive law . |
| 30 | Moderator I reported to the general assembly last year that the Board of Social Responsibility had planned a deficit on its operation of thirty eight eventide homes amounting to a little over two million pounds . |