Example sentences of "[adj] have [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although this had begun as a joint Anglo-French operation , Britain had withdrawn her forces , leaving the French either to carry on alone or to withdraw . |
| 32 | This had led to a lengthy series of negotiations over the sort of contracts which should bind printers in his new plant . |
| 33 | This had led in a good deal of theology and piety to a concentration of attention on a vaguely unitarian ‘ God ’ , loosely identified with the Father , and to increasing difficulties in connecting that up in any coherent way with either the Trinity or the incarnation . |
| 34 | By the end of October this had resulted in a 20 per cent devaluation of the lempira against the US dollar , to which it had been tied at a fixed exchange rate since October 1989 . |
| 35 | A new cross-cut had been started at Paddy End ( probably Courteney 's Cross-Cut ) , and this had come into a 6 inch vein carrying chalcopyrite . |
| 36 | As we have seen , this had occurred on a small but steady scale since pre-Roman times but new pressures forced a rapid growth in the sixteenth century . |
| 37 | This had originated in a Cossack military formation which withdrew from Russia to Yugoslavia at the end of the Russian Civil War in 1920 . |
| 38 | The same is not true of the West 's other non-Arab ally , Turkey , which some have seen as a potential guardian of the Levant . |
| 39 | Some have waited for a booming voice to give direction and are still waiting after years of meditation and prayer . |
| 40 | 1991 had benefited from a temporary lag in the fall of product prices compared with feedstock costs , in the period immediately following the Gulf crisis . |
| 41 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
| 42 | A growing belief that a devaluation is inevitable has led to a damaging flight of capital out of the CFA zone . |
| 43 | Use a steel bodkin to probe the central core and hold it open , their swiftly pass a lighted match under the sleeve extremity and you' 11 find that the synthetic has melted into a tiny trumpet-sectioned outlet when the bodkin is withdrawn . |
| 44 | ‘ The boy is very lucky to have escaped with a minor injury . ’ |
| 45 | Within a few weeks of setting eyes on Judith he had managed to supersede Zacharias in her affections , and the three had dwindled to a blissful two . |
| 46 | Many of these have adopted as a major part of their strategy over the last two years campaigns to attract bidders for Channel 5 franchises to locate in their cities . |
| 47 | Certainly the Department of Education and Science and HM Inspectorate think so ; indeed , the latter has argued for a common curriculum at secondary level up to sixteen because of the variety of curriculum offerings , the lack of whole curriculum planning , and the need for national decisions in a political democracy to balance the autonomy of the school . |
| 48 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 49 | He set up Whiddett for a header just wide of the mark before being booked with Ecchinswell 's Dean Nelson for retaliating after the latter had put in a late tackle . |
| 50 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 51 | The human rights organization Amnesty International had called for a full investigation of the incident , thought to have been a reprisal for recent attacks by the rebel Popular Front for the Liberation of Azawad , which marked the collapse of a peace agreement signed in January 1991 [ see p. 37947 ] . |
| 52 | This is revealed in the latest figures from Barclays Bank , which said that sterling 's 15 per cent devaluation and the 4 per cent fall in interest rates following the UK 's withdrawal from the exchange rate mechanism in September 1992 had led to a sharp increase in business confidence in manufacturing in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 53 | Members of the Savernake Fly Fishers club say the River Kennet in Wiltshire is teeming with trout because so many have escaped from a nearby fish farm . |
| 54 | Changes in household structure — the increase in single parents and in divorce , and a greater emphasis on equality of opportunity within the education and employment systems ; legal changes ; all have contributed to a rising level of consciousness . |
| 55 | Hale is unlikely to have approved of a further development which took place in connection with this legislation . |
| 56 | The SNS chairman Vitazoslav Moric , who on Oct. 25 had called for a civil disobedience campaign against the language law , was in consequence recalled from the Federal Assembly Presidium by the deputies on Nov. 26 . |
| 57 | Six had minor gunshot wounds , the seventh had tripped over a fallen tree and broken an arm . |
| 58 | The year 1987 had arrived on a high note , but possibly a dangerous one . |
| 59 | Never having shown the same propensity as the French for violent revolution , the dispossessed have entered into a complex ritual of action within the processes of the criminal justice system , and in doing so have encouraged those tasked with their containment to consider them as being less than human and therefore needing further control and discipline . |
| 60 | Said Pool-Jones : ‘ It is wonderful to have played in a final , especially for Serge . |