Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Council have provided us with a table which shows that the present value of one pound per annum , payable for the next twenty five years , discounted at four point five percent is fourteen point eight two eight two one pounds , unquote . |
| 2 | With you , Mr. Mayor , at the helm , I feel we shall be in no danger of a shipwreck , but I notice you have left nothing to chance , and for safety 's sake have provided us with a lifeboat ’ . |
| 3 | Critics of LMS have seen it as a way of bringing about education cuts without blame being ascribed to either local or central government . |
| 4 | The low waters of this summer have provided us with a superb opportunity for fish spotting and also for mapping the contours of the river bed . |
| 5 | They started as self-defence systems , but more than 2,000 years of refinement have turned them into a way of life . |
| 6 | His early days underground working alongside miners on the coal-face have imbued him with a special rapport with the thousands of miners he now oversees as chairman of British Coal . |
| 7 | With all these formal and informal constraints , we can see that pure freedom for the individual actor is very unlikely ; considering all these expectations and controls that surround us , Berger 's portrayal of society as a prison begins to seem plausible : ‘ Our considerations of the sociological perspective have led us to a point where society looks more like a gigantic Alcatraz than anything else ’ ( Berger , 1966 , p. 107 ) . |