Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be criticism that team discipline off the field is wanting , a complaint that has surfaced with reasonable regularity since before Lord Hawke 's time . |
| 2 | They are disgusted with a decision which must kill off the all-important chance of exposing a form of cheating that has spread with alarming haste as bowlers find ways of getting the old ball to swing violently late . |
| 3 | In short , an action succeeds when it fulfils ( i.e. achieves the object of ) the desire that has combined with some belief to cause that action . |
| 4 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 5 | Fortunately , there always seemed to be a hard core of people who were determined to breathe new life into a tradition that had started with phenomenal success in 1892 under its first president , Billy Hutchinson , of Redcar . |
| 6 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 7 | However , even this cost control team was subsequently absorbed by the Treasury in 1983 because it was politically unpopular and had met with mixed success . |
| 8 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 9 | One Head Girl found her team circling round the stage once as rehearsed but then galloping straight off stage to the lavatories ; apparently one of the Girls had realized that she had a sudden attack of diarrhoea and had acted with unheard-of initiative . |