Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This f is used only to detect when the algorithm has reached a summit or plateau . |
| 2 | A great anger had heated up , one of Robertson 's new windows had been shattered by a stone , and the womenfolk had made a move to drag the teacher out and throw him in the river . |
| 3 | The storage and preparation of food took place on the north side , where the Eastons have made a studio out of the old pentice , called the tempting shed , which ran along that side . |
| 4 | ‘ The guitar 's got a personality and that 's the whole reason why people still play them . |
| 5 | It had come home to her earlier when she discovered that the Prince had sent a bouquet of flowers to Camilla when she had been ill . |
| 6 | The speech sent shock waves through the medical profession , but the Prince had hit a nerve and , for all the criticism that was heaped on his head in the aftermath , the letters from the public told him he had been right . |
| 7 | The previous day the Pentagon had issued a statement claiming that the photograph had passed through the hands of a " ring of Cambodia opportunists led by a well-known and admitted fabricator " of information about MIAs . |
| 8 | The Scotsman has obtained a copy of the mandate given to Mr Ford by the charity 's business administration secretary , Lt-Col Ivor Rich . |
| 9 | The retailer has acquired a reputation for low prices and efficient service . |
| 10 | The writer had received a bill from St. Peter 's Hospital for £10.5s.6d. : |
| 11 | The writing , which was in blue ink , was small and upright , as though the writer had used a set-square for each character . |
| 12 | His partner in the conspiracy , James Laming , who claimed during the trial to have invented a racehorse nobbling stun gun , was jailed for 14 years . |
| 13 | The EEC has evolved a mechanism for raising revenue known as ‘ own resources ’ . |
| 14 | David Ross Stewart , the chairman of ESII , said the board had examined a number of options to ensure that shareholders received a payment to reflect the value of the company 's liquid assets , while achieving a satisfactory long-term solution in respect of the unquoted portfolio . |
| 15 | She also failed to notice the board had hired a teacher with convictions for exposing himself to schoolgirls , or ask why a probationary principal was still in place despite pleading guilty to a $21,000 welfare scam . |
| 16 | To assist the process of public consultation the Board has prepared a number of discussion papers tackling themes which will be covered in the strategy . |
| 17 | We then all sit down together and discuss these various options over and over again until the board has reached a position of understanding of where in broad terms we think the strategy of the individual business should fit . |
| 18 | The Board has achieved a measure of success although this has been boosted by the development of North Sea Oil . |
| 19 | The board has recommended a dividend of 0.7p per share , broadly in line with last year . |
| 20 | In the first case the creditor has obtained a grant from the praetor entitling him to take possession of certain property of the debtor in order to secure his loan . |
| 21 | The RAF has convened a board of inquiry into the crash … which , in an unprecedented move , will include two Russians . |
| 22 | The RAF has convened a board of inquiry into the crash … which , in an unprecedented move , will include two Russians . |
| 23 | The RAF have issued a warning after anti-chemical warfare equipment was stolen from an airman who served in the Gulf . |
| 24 | On Harrogate , erm I think the discussions have clarified a lot of the the sort of outstanding issues that that er were between perhaps the County Council and erm Professor Lock , er not so much between ourselves and Harrogate , although we have the the issue , and I think if I read it right , this could well be er the only issue that is between us in the Harrogate area , the issue of the strategic sites . |
| 25 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 26 | There is a story , probably apocryphal , that the surveyors had demanded a bribe of the merchants of Tomsk to take the railway there . |
| 27 | But there had been a time , early in the nineteenth century , in Shelley 's day , where the head and the heart had stood a chance of marching forward together . |
| 28 | The origin of the Swastika has become a source of speculation for western researchers throughout time . |
| 29 | The motorspeeder had entered a canyon at least a mile wide . |
| 30 | Auguste failed to see the hidden tensions and passions behind these simple manoeuvres ; to him it only signified that the banquet had acquired a reality . |