Example sentences of "[pron] has [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’
2 I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society .
3 They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school .
4 Four patients have developed recurrent stones , one of whom has had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy , a second who is about to have a laparoscopic procedure , and two who are free of symptoms .
5 So far no-one has suggested a successful remedy .
6 I think someone has done a great wrong .
7 Someone has done a lovely drawing of me .
8 ( Someone has described a similar awareness as faint , unidentifiable longings . )
9 Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way .
10 Similarly if someone has left a certain amount to somebody and has added that the sum can quite easily be offset , since the beneficiary is his debtor on account of Gaius Seius ' estate ; yet the beneficiary does not wish to enter that estate but claims the trust : our emperor replied by rescript that he was claiming the trust against the intention of the testator , since in trusts the intention of the testator is particularly to be regarded and observed .
11 Someone has spotted a prowling car .
12 O'Conor himself has played a restored Longman and Broderip piano — one which Field favoured , and says that it produced ‘ a unique tinkling sound — no wonder he exploited those high notes . ’
13 I 've seen this in shops when somebody has to add a twenty p to seventy-three p and out comes the calculator
14 Erm like any job you have your ups and your downs , it 's very nice when you see people getting better or you 've followed somebody through their pregnancy and they 've got a lovely bouncy baby at the end of it and sometimes it 's sad when you find out that somebody has got a serious illness or you 're looking after people where somebody has died and it , it 's very hard for the people left behind to cope and so that 's very difficult sometimes .
15 To do this the study will analyse data from a project undertaken by the Policy Planning Research Unit of the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland which has followed a random sample of some 3,000 young people eligible to leave school in Northern ireland in 1984 and who have been re- interviewed annually until 1987 .
16 Mr Clark insisted he was completely innocent in the affair , which has provoked a political storm , engulfing even the Prime Minister in allegations that the Government had encouraged firms to breach the arms embargo .
17 One important theoretical characteristic of logogens which has stimulated a great deal of experimentation is that they mediate priming effects in word recognition , i.e. the faster recognition of a word following previous recent exposure to that word .
18 The telephone network is now under the control and direction of British Telecom which has become a privatized monopoly .
19 ‘ How shall the crimes that have their direct source in the immoral motion pictures be measured ? ’ he asked , before declaring , ‘ Catholics are called by God , the pope , the Bishops and the priests to a united and vigorous campaign for the purification of the cinema , which has become a deadly menace to morals . ’
20 Some trajectories wander forever near the strange invariant set which has become a strange attractor .
21 A second team is currently working at Moscow airport , which has become a major transit point for people without proper documents .
22 To an extent , the anger is to be expected from a newspaper which has become a strident mouthpiece of conservative elements in the Kremlin leadership .
23 The problem of the physical and sexual abuse of children , which has become a dominant theme of family studies and of the work of the social services in the 1970s and 1980s , is increasingly seen as one that replicates itself across generations .
24 The Australian Federal Police are saying little about the affair , which has become a national scandal , but they have admitted the discovery of illegal bugs on the phones of Mr Robert Holmes a Court , Sydney stockbroker Mr Peter Burrows and a leading Australian financial journalist , Mr Terry McCran of the Melbourne Herald , a trenchant critic of the Bond Corporation .
25 Sheffield has a very active Natural History Society , which has accumulated a good knowledge of this city 's fauna .
26 Fiat , which has lost a few employees in Italy 's corruption scandals , issued a ‘ code of business ethics ’ .
27 MINISTERS fear that unemployment , which has hit a six-year high at over three million , will continue to rise for up to 18 months and could delay economic recovery .
28 The district councils group , which has employed a public relations company to press its case against replacing the districts with one or two large single-tier Highland authorities , also showed Mr Lang a video promoting their view .
29 Similarly , the Transport 2000 group , which has done a great deal of work on this matter , has discovered beyond doubt that the interests of consumers in England and Wales have not been protected by privatisation .
30 Mr. Dobson : Setting aside the Lord President 's snide references to the London food commission , which has done a considerable amount of good work , I ask him whether , instead of being so complacent , he would be prepared to undertake a thoughtful and organised survey of the views of Hon. Members and of the other people who have to use the cafeterias in this place
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