Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By a sort of transposed assumption based on post-war experience Acheson had told the National War College in December 1947 that for Greeks , Italians and others it had not been a free choice whether they accepted or rejected communism : because they were being coerced either by an internal organization financed by other countries or by external pressure to adopt a system of government which had the inescapable consequence of inclusion in the system of Russian power .
2 The first day Benguiat accused him — Parkinson printed up this sheet as a handout with which the finished examples had the logos that he was exploring in the lectures and one of them was the New York Times magazine , and of course Benguiat had done the original job for the New York Times and the magazine , the other magazine , so he thought that what Parkinson was showing was an example of a redesign , relettering of an existing logo , and perhaps he should n't of said that , you know .
3 As children , she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring .
4 Somewhere amongst the ochrous jumble of mountains to the south Moses had received the Ten Commandments .
5 However , South Korea had overcome the armed challenge from within .
6 South Korea have won the last three tournaments .
7 It is a pity Martin had to teach the basic skidding skiing progression .
8 Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor .
9 Contamination control specialist MDH has bought the remaining share capital of Cambridge Isolation Technology , manufacturer of flexible film isolators .
10 By the end of the war Winnicott had left the actual practice of physical paediatrics behind , his outpatient clinic at Paddington Green becoming in effect a department of child psychiatry based on psychodynamic theory and on his particular way of using it .
11 CONSTRUCTION group Allen has bucked the depressed trend in the industry by winning £11.75m of orders for projects in the North West of England , the Midlands and Yorkshire .
12 During the war Britain had provided the European lead and because of its wartime role was believed to have the reasons and the opportunity to effect some kind of unity .
13 By this , I do not mean mat Lewis has represented the medieval picture as ‘ better ’ than the modern ; but he has shown us that both are merely pictures .
14 LIBERAL DEMOCRAT leader Paddy Ashdown and his wife Jane have won the best front garden award in their home village of Norton sub Hamdon , near Yeovil , Somerset .
15 Before the French Revolution Burke had supported the popular cause against undue monarchical power ; in fact , he had even been rumoured to have been the author of Junius 's letters .
16 As his crew Edwards had chosen the experienced Ramsay as navigator and Sergeant Gerald Quinn as gunner .
17 Supposing aunt sees us , said G.P. Barber 's got the foulest reputation in Cornwall .
18 Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds .
19 On Friday night Walzerkoenig had dislodged the lowest rail on the triple bar in the final round of the Next International Masters , which cost Sloothaak £28,000 .
20 DIY giant B&Q had spearheaded the four-year battle to open on Sundays , claiming Britain 's laws breach EC free-market regulations .
21 At 3.15 this morning Clinton had passed the magical 270 electoral votes he required to win the presidency .
22 For the second week Citalia has selected the world-famous beauty spot of Taormina in Sicily with a choice of three and four star hotels in the centre of town or by the beach .
23 Ayatollah al-Hakim has criticised the Arab world for ignoring the ‘ bloodbath ’ in the Shia south .
24 Ironically , Clough 's own kid Nigel had to undergo the same perpetual ultra-critical appraisal of his skills before the Forest manager would accept the striker as a player first and a member of the family second .
25 Joyce Cormie , Development Officer , Fife , Age Concern Scotland Having spent the last year doing a study on day care in Fife , I have been asked to do this presentation on the implications of day care for planners .
26 The Ugandan capital Kampala has seen the devastating effect that civil war has on a sophisticated engineering scheme .
27 The Eel , on the radio to his four companions , would be running down the path Trent had ridden the previous afternoon on his motor cycle .
28 Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world .
29 The subtraction from ‘ traditional ’ aid flows implied by Western Europe 's impassioned concern for East Europe has worried the Third World , as its diplomats make clear every time they find a receptive ear .
30 And such was the momentum of the new German scholarship that by the beginning of the nineteenth century Germany had become the European centre for classical studies , traditional as well as new , and an unprecedented growth in the scale of scholarly work of a host of different kinds well under way .
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