Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 2 | ‘ Where Parliament has designated a public officer as decision-maker for a particular class of decisions the High Court , acting as a reviewing court under Order 53 , is not a court of appeal . |
| 3 | While not many people have adopted Plato 's particular grounds for opposing democracy , the issue of expertise as opposed to supposed popular ignorance or incompetence has remained a central one in the debate about democracy . |
| 4 | In view of the completion of the EC single market on 1 January 1993 and the consequent arrangements for charging VAT and relief from VAT on the supply of new means of transport ( NMT ) between EC countries , Customs & Excise have published a single market information sheet entitled VAT : the treatment of new means of transport from 1 January 1993 . |
| 5 | The new proprietors of the " Islay , " D. Hutcheson & Co. had erected a large new sectional waiting room on the quay . |
| 6 | A MacDougall & Co. had erected a large malt barn and brick stalk . |
| 7 | I am sure that Arcic has had a new encouragement to continue . ’ |
| 8 | The astonishing economic achievements of the golden years led many to conclude that capitalism had undergone a qualitative transformation — that the bad old days of slumps and class antagonisms had been transcended for ever . |
| 9 | The obvious conclusion is that skiing has become a mature industry , which will have to get used to little or no growth . |
| 10 | The most optimistic view is that evolution has involved a gradual accretion of new structures , added on to primitive ones common to all mammals . |
| 11 | Others have had a boomerang effect by wiping out natural predators or by obligingly clearing the habitat for another , though equally troublesome , pest-Herbicides which killed poppies in wheatfields cleared the way for wild oats , so that until the ( very expensive ) sprays had been developed to cope with them , a trip through the eastern counties in midsummer could create the strong impression that oats had made a spectacular comeback as a cereals crop . |
| 12 | The news that Sky had beaten a rival last minute ITV bid of £200m was greeted with anger by MPs and sports viewers still smarting at being deprived of cricket World Cup live coverage by the satellite station . |
| 13 | Hernando de Soto 's ( 1989 ) study of Peru concluded that government had created a large and costly informal economy by insisting on licenses for everything from building a house or driving a taxi , to starting a shop or business . |
| 14 | When the Japanese Constitution was rewritten by the United States after 1945 , a strict separation of church and state was imposed , on the grounds that Shintoism had provided a religious and philosophical foundation for the emperor-worship , racism and military expansionism regarded as characteristic of imperial Japan . |
| 15 | He still stressed the desirability of banning the fascists but he now stated that anti-semitism had added a new dimension to the problem since 1934 . |
| 16 | Although no cost analyses have been made in the Nasa report , a separate study by the White House Office of Management and Budget has put a tentative $400 billion price tag on the Mars venture . |
| 17 | Experimentation with colour and support has become a major preoccupation for him . |
| 18 | Tom then decided to join a club which admits women ( not all of them do ) and snooker has become a shared interest . |
| 19 | The Department of Trade and Industry has issued a consultative document covering the amendments to UK law necessary in bringing the EC Partnerships Directive into force . |
| 20 | The Department of Trade and Industry has issued a consultative document proposing changes to the Insolvent Partnerships Order . |
| 21 | The Department of Trade and Industry has published a Green Paper aimed at strengthening the law to curb anti-competitive practices . |
| 22 | The Department of Trade and Industry has published a consultative document on implementation of the EC Eleventh Company Law Directive and the Bank Branches Directive . |
| 23 | Firstly , in North America foresight and management have promoted a vigorous sustainable wood industry , despite the early pillages of European settlers in the colonial era . |
| 24 | The warmth and mildness has brought a fine crop of toadstools . |
| 25 | But once again this ‘ temporary ’ extension of power and influence has lasted a long time , and the relative weighting of Diet , Cabinet , Bureaucracy and Judiciary remains a debated issue . |
| 26 | At the other end of the human time-scale , the idea that life could be , and was being , prolonged through man 's skill and foresight had taken a powerful hold . |
| 27 | Nevertheless he had persisted with the Saturday Benediction , and Lent had impelled a respectable number to attend . |
| 28 | The first seven days of heavy fighting and shelling have caused a large number of casualties ; the Commando units in some instances are down to less than half strength . |
| 29 | If nature has endowed a particular market participant with all the current endowment of a certain resource , he is in the fortunate position of being a monopolist resource owner . |
| 30 | Chatto and Vintage have bought a new book by Naomi Wolf , author of The Beauty Myth . |