Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We assume that the writer has used the basic historical framework for her story — Wroe 's demand that his flock should provide his household with seven virgins ( female , although this was not specified ) for his ‘ comfort and succour ’ : and that not terribly long afterwards , he was put on trial by his church for alleged naughtiness with two of them . |
| 2 | While the ombudsman has revealed the occasional bureaucratic horror story , he or she lacks some of the powers of his or her opposite number in other systems . |
| 3 | My paper tells me that a dispute over pay between the leading British manufacturer of seaside rock and his chief sugar boiler has left the latter jobless and the former with umpteen sticks of rocks bearing the legend Mean Bastard all the way through . |
| 4 | Of the dailies , Today 's circulation has registered the worst seasonal drop , falling to 466,631 from 513,673 . |
| 5 | The dale is dominated at its lower end by two scars , Great Coum and Combe Scar , both carved out by the passing glaciers , while the sweeping fells of Barbondale mark the point at which the Dent fault has thrust the older Silurian gritstones thousands of feet above their original bed . |
| 6 | Inhibition of gastric acid secretion has become the traditional medical treatment for reflux oesophagitis . |
| 7 | THEFT has become the fastest growing business with more than £2 billion worth of goods stolen every year , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 8 | The attempt to revive Monaghan Day was a gesture as weak as a couple who marry in order to try to retrieve a lost relationship , the mind having changed the hard actual fact into what was comfortable to feel . |
| 9 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 10 | On arrival in the kitchens they found that the domestic superintendent had followed the correct first-aid procedure for scalds and burns and the two ladies , although suffering from shock , had already had ice packs administered to their injuries . |
| 11 | This provided Railfreight with valuable contracts for long-distance bulk coil traffic , traffic which would not have materialised if the steel industry had survived the 1980s unscathed . |
| 12 | The SLA had accused the other main guerrilla group , the Tucayana Amazonicas led by Thomas Sabajo , of furthering its own ambitions by accepting guns and ammunition from the army . |
| 13 | Mummy 's got the longest red blue . |
| 14 | Science 's egocentric constricted views in relation to consciousness and mind have reduced the human mental condition almost to that of a robot 's , with ‘ mystic mumbo jumbo ’ being the label placed on the canons of the sublime Eastern ‘ Science of Life ’ . |
| 15 | So far , many signatories to the new deal have resisted the painful structural changes that are necessary . |
| 16 | Different fields of research have disclosed the many different factors that can affect both physical and mental behaviour . |
| 17 | The committee has considered the numerous recent developments and trends in the provision of health care but has felt unable to judge the likely impact of most of them . |
| 18 | IN THEIR SUFFOLK FARMHOUSE , CAREFUL DETECTIVE WORK HAS REVEALED THE ORIGINAL PAINTED DECORATIONS , NOW LOVINGLY RESTORED . |
| 19 | THE Cheshire Cat has vanquished the Big Friendly Giant in the classroom battleground of English literature . |
| 20 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 21 | At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes . |
| 22 | The council has asked the Grand National Archery Association to stop its member counties from holding ‘ postal shoots ’ with the Natal Archery Society . |
| 23 | The council has asked the Grand National Archery Association to stop its member counties from holding ‘ postal shoots ’ with the Natal Archery Society . |
| 24 | However , I must com comment on the way that since Christmas the Vice Chair of Council has undertaken the many civic duties he has been called upon to perform , assisted by his wife . |
| 25 | Even though the advent of computer-controlled equipment has lowered the minimum efficient scale in many factories , it has usually increased the need for greater scale elsewhere in the system . |
| 26 | After the caretaker had unlocked the big front door and disappeared down the drive , Harry took Madeleine 's arm and led her into the drawing-room . |
| 27 | The Damianis had bought the decrepit domed buildings from the Jaffa municipality and for several decades after the First World War the name of Damiani was proudly displayed in English and Arabic over the vaulted gateway where Turkish pashas once administered the law . |
| 28 | He was born heir to the betrayed promise of the Great War , after which another Welshman had assured the returning British soldier of a ‘ home fit for heroes to live in ’ . |
| 29 | In effect , even those who move across the margins into CID work have produced the first structural crack in the preferred coherent model of uniformed and unitary policing . |
| 30 | I always donate to these organisations and have benefited to the extent that organisations like THT , Body Positive and LAGER have made the general public aware of the infection and have made some employers take it into account . |