Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |
| 2 | More empirically however , on the other hand , and drawing upon the work of Peter Bürger , Callinicos accepts the case for Modernism having contained a critical moment — a ‘ protest against the capitalist society to which it is in complex ways related ’ ( p. 53 ) . |
| 3 | I was n't going to get anything else out of Pardy anyway so I had a statement typed up and after Deanes had put a magnifying glass over it , the lad signed and was ushered out by Deanes doing a mother-hen act over him . ’ |
| 4 | For example , in areas of the South Pacific it is not uncommon for parents to have to relinquish a new baby to admiring kin who have claimed it ( Sahlins 1976b ; Silk 1980 ) . |
| 5 | There have been thousands of words written on recycled paper and now there will be even more as JS has launched a new range of recycled stationery . |
| 6 | His large , gnarled hands had very gently stroked the soft flannel over the protesting muddle of arms and legs on his towelled lap , and when he held one leg by the ankle and it slipped from his grasp as the baby kicked , his sudden exclamation of horror had started a loud wail and reduced Carrie to a fit of laughter at her husband 's awkwardness . |
| 7 | For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around . |
| 8 | Still in the north-east of Italy , Campanotto Editore of Udine have chosen a Roman theme in the person of Antoniazzo Romano e gli Antoniazzeschi . |
| 9 | The Salvadorean Popular Church has placed particular emphasis on the need to promote women 's equality , both in terms of the traditional exclusion of women religious workers from certain liturgical responsibilities and in society in general : " Women of course have played a subordinate role within the Church but Mns Romero took up our cause . |
| 10 | Fine Art Facsimile Publishers of Lucerne have produced a high quality reproduction of the late fourteenth to early fifteenth-century manuscript illuminated in The Hague during the reign of Albrecht of Bavaria whose court was based in that city . |
| 11 | Inspired by the success of their Leith restaurant , the Turkish owners of Kavio have opened a new restaurant in the city centre . |
| 12 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 13 | The idea of the new international division of labour has excited a great deal of research interest ( for example , the volumes edited by Nash and Fernandez Kelly , 1983 ; Sanderson , 1985 and Caporaso , 1987 ) . |
| 14 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 15 | However , this form of investment has proved a dangerous risk for clients . |
| 16 | The statement of light had become a depressing and , at times , boring mess of discontent . |
| 17 | This accident of geography has created a vast central bog . |
| 18 | After many years of gradual improvement in mortality rates generally , the emergence of AIDS has brought a dramatic reversal in certain specific groups . |
| 19 | Just across the Devonshire border is the old mining landscape of Blanchdown , west of Tavistock , where , in the middle decades of the nineteenth century , the Devon Great Consols was the richest copper mine in the world : now its miles of spoil-heaps have created a silent and desolate beauty of their own , and foxes and snakes haunt the broken buildings and the glades between . |
| 20 | The fate of Spitalfields has exercised a Royal Fine Art Commission , enraged the Georgian Group and obliged the intervention of the Secretary of State . |
| 21 | The Royal Bank of Scotland has arranged a special Travel Insurance policy with General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation plc . |
| 22 | The Royal Bank of Scotland has designed a special account that allows you to provide for your children 's future and enable these savings to grow steadily over the years . |
| 23 | THE Bank of Scotland has introduced a high interest , instant access Deutsche Mark money market account , based in London , which enables interest to be paid gross to German residents . |
| 24 | Martin Martin ( 1703 ) who wrote his well-documented Description of the Western Islands of Scotland has left a wide and varied record of many of the plant uses which were at that time extant . |
| 25 | THE Church of Scotland has launched a blistering attack on Conservative social and economic policies , describing them as unacceptable in a civilised society and accusing the Chancellor , Mr Lamont , of expressing ‘ hollow and cynical ’ views . |
| 26 | But I see no evidence of Scotland having become a classless society ! |
| 27 | Stadex Industries , of Wrexham has introduced a water-based copolymer emulsion adhesive , Stafix C5065 , which gives good adhesion to UV varnished boards , eliminating the need to strip off varnish where adhesive is to be applied . |
| 28 | Most of us would strongly reject any such idea — yet the image of Eve has exercised a powerful influence on the way women have traditionally been regarded . |
| 29 | A few months earlier , Sammy Woods of Australia and Harry Wood of England had had a near miss in this particular department , but it took a brace of Smiths to achieve a Test first . |
| 30 | THE FIVE counties making up the south western corner of England have become a prime target for supermarket development . |