Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stick has got the same range as the piano and I can jump four octaves with one hand . |
| 2 | It can be seen that the committee continues to recognise the difference between obtaining possession by a trick ( that is , ‘ by deception ’ in its new wide sense ) and obtaining ownership by false pretences ( again , ‘ by deception ’ ) but the committee intended , and it seems that Parliament has adopted the same approach in section 15 , that , for the purpose of finding the accused guilty , it would cease to matter whether the victim was deceived into transferring ownership or into handing over possession . |
| 3 | A recent study has documented the many ways in which Conservative spokesmen have tried to manage the media and been conscious of the image of the government and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | The social groups C2DE still make up 57 per cent of the electorate ; if Labour had enjoyed the same dominance among these voters as do the Tories in social groups ABC1 , they would have swept to power with a big majority . |
| 5 | He told us that " if only the car industry had achieved the same improvements in price performance since the war as the electronics industry , a 1980 Rolls Royce would only cost 2 pence . " |
| 6 | In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said . |
| 7 | When social services departments were first established a number , perhaps a majority , incorporated some research capacity into their structure and in some departments this capacity has survived the many reorganizations , changes of policy and fluctuations of resources which have taken place since 1970 . |
| 8 | I have never known a situation where a doe has used the same breeding stop twice . |
| 9 | Even though drug testing has attracted the most controversy , it is merely part of a broad movement in America toward a Darwinian worker-selection policy , which has been dubbed ‘ employment of the fittest . ’ |
| 10 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 11 | Seeking to print the problem of a correspondent whose small son had , " taken a little girl behind the settee and pulled her knickers down " , she found her sub-editor had deleted the latter part of the quoted sentence and substituted , " taken off part of her underclothes " . |
| 12 | Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing . |
| 13 | By comparable mechanisms , an animal ( or human ) will find a task easier to learn if others of the same type have learned the same task before . |
| 14 | Emigration has transformed the former congestion and landlessness into the opposite problem of depopulation . |
| 15 | Perhaps more than any other application of TL , sediment dating has fired the most interest . |
| 16 | Fame has made the former rebel into a smug , uncommitted and corrupt member of the musical establishment . |
| 17 | The superiority of this latter group on a test task which involved choice between A and B could well depend on their having learned different labels ( and on the control group having learned the same label ) for these stimuli . |
| 18 | To be equivalent to this , an investment in a two-year bond has to yield the same amount , implying that the current two-year rate is rs 2 = 7 per cent : 100(1.07) 2 = 114.49 . |
| 19 | Hawthorn and oak had colonised the same embankment . |
| 20 | Whatever the nature of their relationship , it was clear that husband and wife had shared the same flat . |
| 21 | The authority of the Minister of Health ( the new Ministry having succeeded the former Local Government Board ) was no longer required for the preparation of a scheme ; instead , all that was necessary was the resolution of a local council . |
| 22 | But nearly half a century of neglect has left the former DDR 's network in a no less lamentable state of collapse . |
| 23 | The study reported in this paper has adopted the latter approach and has explored one of the constant metabolic effects of ethanol on the pancreas — namely , increased lysosomal fragility , which may render the organ susceptible to autodigestion by facilitating contact between pancreatic digestive enzymes and lysosomal hydrolases . |
| 24 | More recently in Cinnamond v. British Airports Authority his Lordship has invoked the same type of reasoning , stating that operators of cabs at an airport had no legitimate expectation which would warrant granting them a hearing . |
| 25 | Perhaps if the rest of the writing had had the same approach we would have a worthy materials reference book . |
| 26 | The South African Rugby Football Union has appointed the former Zimbabwe coach , Ian McIntosh , as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 27 | The Roman Catholic wake has served the same purposes . |
| 28 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ If the rest of the hierarchy had maintained the same level of charity and civilised control as Dr Runcie , Gareth Bennett might well be alive today . ’ |
| 30 | The Newmarket man says : ‘ His father was a late developer and Bonny Scot has pro-gressed the same way . ’ |