Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If , on a sale of unregistered land , there is any personal obligation on the part of a seller-client to observe restrictions ( as , for example , where the seller is the original covenantor or has given a personal covenant to observe these ) , it is desirable to provide in the contract for a similar covenant indemnifying the seller against any future breach .
2 If the GP has asked for a drug to be dispensed in a special calendar pack , or has prescribed a small quantity of an unusual medicine that is only available from wholesalers in large quantities , the pharmacist will want to make sure that the pricing authority is aware of the extra costs .
3 By contrast , waking is more likely to occur if the body temperature rising or has reached a high level .
4 Given the generous relief against forfeiture provisions contained in s 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 a tenant should have little to fear from a forfeiture clause unless it is seriously in financial difficulties or has committed a serious breach of covenant which can not be rectified .
5 If a woman , she knows her language better than most ladies do , or has had a classical education .
6 Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him .
7 It is true that many experienced abseilers will tackle the steepest descents without any protection or having tied the hanging rope ends together .
8 Nor do the advances in scientific knowledge , which began in Elizabeth 's reign and multiplied during the Stuart period , appear to have caused any appreciable weakening of the Christian belief of intellectuals , or to have created a new elite group of educated non-believers .
9 Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ .
10 223 ) that the visitor had failed to take into account relevant matters or taken into account irrelevant matters or had reached an irrational conclusion .
11 The detective wondered whether Nicola 's husband was deliberately misleading them or had had a genuine slip of memory .
12 Often , such people never consider that it might be because they are not academically qualified or had had a bad interview ; they automatically blame racism .
13 Foreign aid is so important in conservation policy-making in lesser developed countries because , with a few exceptions , most newly independent lesser developed countries had either no official conservation organisation whatsoever ( as in Latin America with the exception of a couple of Southern Brazilian states ) or had experienced the colonial model mentioned above , principally in Africa , South and South-east Asia .
14 In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’
15 Candidates must hold a post-professional advanced degree in architectural design or have completed a substantial body of high quality works .
16 You do n't need to have taken in the fact , planted early on , that Joe keeps a gun , or have noticed the required sign in the foyer warning that shots will be fired ( ca n't the nanny state keep its paws off anything ? ) to know that retribution is coming , and on elephant feet .
17 Or have gained the appropriate number of points through the licentiate assessment scheme .
18 There is also a system of ‘ networking ’ where women are put in touch with others who are having or have had the same experience .
19 If it is less than a hundred-per cent change , ignore it ; you are studying the wrong system or have designed the wrong experiment , he insisted .
20 Or have held the associate grade for at least four years .
21 A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years .
22 Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself .
23 It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget .
24 However , the job itself , as we have already noted , is rarely the cause of disenchantment with agriculture — indeed , in a decade that has seen a renewed interest in the countryside among young people and a growing desire to escape from the urban rat-race , agriculture could have much to offer .
25 The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything .
26 Since the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD , it has been the synagogue that has kept the Jewish faith alive throughout the centuries even to the present day .
27 It now , persists , it may be said , because of a non-rational or irrational longing on the part of philosophers to have order in the universe , a longing that has replaced the lost comfort of a belief in an all-governing God .
28 He hopes , as all prime ministers do , that the shake-up will put an end to the back-biting and snarling that has reached a nasty pitch since the Newbury by-election and local-council humiliations three weeks ago .
29 What must ultimately be recognised is a more profound change that has overcome the cultural sphere , namely the broad and far-reaching symptoms of the ‘ postmodern ’ in culture .
30 The recourse to respirators and cardiac pace-makers that has made a legal definition of death based upon the absence of breathing and heartbeat outmoded is a good example .
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