Example sentences of "[pron] has [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
| 2 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 3 | If someone has taken out a PP which is contracted out of SERPS , the widow 's pension under SERPS or under the occupational pension scheme to which she belonged previously will be replaced by an annuity bought out of the fund of contributions built up so far . |
| 4 | What are the names of your children ? ’ ) , or night comes so abruptly it is as though someone has pulled down a blind . |
| 5 | Pittencrieff , which has built up a stake of 19.1 per cent in Aberdeen , has made its offer conditional on Aberdeen 's bid for Brabant failing . |
| 6 | Ingres Corp is claiming a world first for its Ingres/Enhanced Security relational database , which has picked up an Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria E3/F-B1 security rating . |
| 7 | A £19.95 investment in a Blackjack putter is the catalyst which has brought about a change in fortune for Davies . |
| 8 | The new pressures that the situation will place on libraries has already been recognised by the Higher Education Funding Council , which has set up a review committee on libraries . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the Farmers ' Union of Wales , which has set up a farm and rural consultancy service , considered reports of widespread farm fraud ‘ greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 10 | Sleepy Kids , which has put together a deal that could earn the Duchess up to £5 million , lost £109,000 in the six months to May . |
| 11 | NCIS , which has drawn up a target list of 500 top-level criminals , co-ordinates intelligence on a regional , national and international basis . |
| 12 | Todd first boxes Scotland 's Stephen Wilson , 20 , who has moved up a weight since winning silver at the 1989 world juniors and an ABA title in 1990 . |
| 13 | The Damned ( 1961 , These are the Damned in US ) compares the violence of contemporary youth to the behaviour of a scientist who has locked up a group of children for experiments . |
| 14 | Lynda Ramsden 's gelding , who has run up a sequence of four successes over hurdles this jumps season , should be suited by today 's extra two furlongs and meets third-placed Needwood Poppy on 6lb better terms . |
| 15 | Among the winners : a society of Japanese housewives which distributes environmentally sound products ; an Ethiopian agronomist who has built up a seed bank of plants for use in time of drought , and Survival International , which campaigns for the rights of tribal peoples . |
| 16 | The experience is made doubly uncomfortable because the man facing them is Dr Giovanni Agnelli , the founder 's grandson , director for 49 years , chairman for 26 , and the man who has built up an enterprise with a turnover of £26bn and 300,000 employees . |
| 17 | Kalinowski is equally accommodating with Prince Adam Czartoryski , who has set up a foundation to restore to glory the castle of Goluchow . |
| 18 | Mr Litman , who has set up an office in Moscow , is unperturbed by his rivals ' plans and promises that his ageing ex-spies will provide ‘ astounding new material that will shatter myths and create new controversies . ’ |
| 19 | Someone who has taken only an option to buy has not ‘ bought or agreed to buy . ’ |
| 20 | Defoe 's Roxana explains why she has turned down an offer of marriage from a Dutch merchant : ‘ … |
| 21 | Later her brother unwittingly reinforced the impression that she hired and fired staff when he said : ‘ In a quiet way she has weeded out a lot of the hangers-on who surrounded Charles . ’ |
| 22 | — Graham Robb , Tory candidate for hartlepool , said a three-year-old girl whose father claims she has waited over a year for surgery is to get her operation . |
| 23 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 24 | We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus . |
| 25 | This project has received much local support and she has set up a group of people who will organise it long term . |
| 26 | With the help of producer Mike McEvoy — who produced a track on the current Soul II Soul LP — she has put together a video promo instead of the usual demo cassettes or industry showcases . |
| 27 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 28 | Although no one has set up an experiment to show that horses in a mentally enriched environment have superior intelligence to those reared in a mentally deprived environment , this has been frequently shown with smaller animals . |
| 29 | This is a proof ( never to be too often proved ) that when one has thought out a story nothing remains but the labour . |
| 30 | There has grown up a folk belief that recurrent thrush is completely untreatable . |