Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it Brown or Heseltine who has written the following on competition policy ( clue : its was n't Brown ) : ‘ There is a need for a new sophistication in Britain 's approach to the ownership of her industrial assets if they are not to be acquired in growing numbers by our rivals as pieces of the game of restructuring European industry . ’ |
| 2 | Amongst the newcomers are Llanelli 's Wayne Proctor and Swansea 's Simon Davies , both wings ( a position short of challengers recently ) , hooker Nigel Meek from Pontypool ( who has made the most of Garin Jenkins ’ move to Swansea ) , second row Paul Kawulok ( another who took the Hall and Griffiths trail from Bridgend to Cardiff ) and two sons of famous fathers , Richard Shaw ( Bridgend ) and Scott Quinnell ( Llanelli ) ; scions of Glyn and Derek respectively . |
| 3 | P. W. Conolly , when District Judge at Negombo , wrote that ‘ when parties quarrel and assault each other , it is no uncommon thing for the person who has got the best of the struggle to have an animal brought to the spot , and a charge of cattle stealing is preferred against the unfortunate man who has been assaulted . ’ |
| 4 | The very year when Mary offered her kingdom to France saw the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , that colossal and most admired figure of the sixteenth century , who had achieved the impossible by holding together an inheritance which sprawled across Europe . |
| 5 | A woman who had made the most of what she 'd got , and done her best to be content . |
| 6 | Turtle , venison and turbot are named among the good things — provided mainly , it seems , by Joseph Cradock , who had done the same for the LNU at its opening at Harborough in 1809 . |
| 7 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 8 | The details of the liberal programme ( attack on regional , ecclesiastical , and aristocratic privilege , guilds , and the Mesta ) were inherited from regalists and political economists , from the servants of Charles III who had attacked the privileged in the interests of a modernized monarchy unencumbered with private jurisdictions . |
| 9 | It is high time that we got rid of the Government who have characterised the 1980s with cardboard city and got a Government for the 1990s who will start using bricks and mortar again . |
| 10 | In preparing my statement so as to include another recent event , I was following the behaviour of my predecessors , who have done the same on such occasions . |
| 11 | or who 's got the best of the play ? |