Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brought a tragic end to a love story that began when they met as they walked their dogs after each had lost a marriage partner to cancer . |
| 2 | A " loyalty loan " at the end of 1796 had produced a subscription of £18 million in less than sixteen hours . |
| 3 | But regulatory and structural upheavals in the City ahead of and after the ‘ big bang ’ in the British securities markets of 1986 have sparked a revolution within the life insurance industry that the Pearl has often found difficult to keep up with . |
| 4 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 5 | None of this has produced a rise in fertility . |
| 6 | The changes in the Soviet Union since the arrival in power of Gorbachev in 1984 and its abolition at the end of 1991 have left a number of subjects for scrutiny in the economic field . |
| 7 | ‘ Cathal Crumley is a political activist of long-standing having served a sentence in the H-Blocks on the blanket protest . ’ |
| 8 | Some of these have developed a taste for human flesh , perhaps as a result of feeding on bodies washed down by the Ganges during the ever more frequent floods . |
| 9 | Many of these have involved a comparison of rates of return on equity in owner- and management-controlled companies . |
| 10 | The main prey of predatory birds are the hundreds of different rodent species and the vast majority of these have evolved a protection system based on a quick scamper down a tunnel . |
| 11 | The European programme for completing the Single European Market by the end of 1992 has raised a number of questions about the labour market . |
| 12 | The Land Drainage Act of 1918 had made an attempt to simplify the administration of land drainage , but in the late 1920s it was clear that confusion still prevailed . |
| 13 | Some of those have got an origin I think Thursday is it 's , it 's got a thought is n't it , yeah ? |
| 14 | To all who thought as Joyce did , the Munich crisis of 1938 had posed a problem of conscience that admitted only one solution . |
| 15 | But yesterday it was seen in Chaura and in Chhuma , running through the outskirts of the villages : and the day before , a dog like that had chased a sheep in Pere , and clutched it by the neck , shaking it from one side to the other until it died of shock . |
| 16 | Our operating activities during 1992 have achieved a number of successes . |
| 17 | Ricky had recently received a small legacy and with this had bought an Opel car with a convertible roof . |
| 18 | One American daguerreotypes , a Baptist minister called Levi Hill , claimed in 1850 to have found a combination of chemistry which would record colour as well as tone , and he made several announcements promising to reveal the technique . |
| 19 | One American daguerreotypes , a Baptist minister called Levi Hill , claimed in 1850 to have found a combination of chemistry which would record colour as well as tone , and he made several announcements promising to reveal the technique . |
| 20 | Brinson , before taking over the Gulbenkian Foundation in London in 1972 had chaired an arts committee of the Foundation , set up to discuss and provide financial help to the performing arts , and particularly to dance , which had had , in his words ‘ a raw deal ’ . |
| 21 | Guardian angels had survived the Reformation , though they led a less secure existence than in the Catholic Church , which in 1621 had decreed a festival of guardian angels , to be celebrated annually on 2nd October . |
| 22 | By the end of the century , however , trade unionism had been virtually eliminated from agriculture , following the determined resistance of farmers , who in 1874 had instituted a lock-out in East Anglia which effectively broke Arch 's union . |
| 23 | Two years later Harris and his wife Mary became residents of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons in Croydon ; he had been an active Freemason since 1818 , and in 1849 had published a set of designs for lodge tracing boards , which became standard for many years . |
| 24 | , Martin Hope ( 1815–1901 ) , seed merchant , was born 14 March 1815 , the elder son of John Sutton , corn merchant , miller , and seedsman of Reading , who in 1806 had founded a shop dealing in agricultural seeds , especially those of corn and pasture grasses , which grew into Sutton & Sons , the Royal Seed Establishment . |
| 25 | It seems that even the toxic cloud that rose over Seveso in 1976 has had a silver lining … |
| 26 | Farmers involved in set-aside have reported a drop in partridges breeding on land which previously enjoyed healthy populations of the birds when it was used to grow wheat and barley . |
| 27 | From the dawn of recorded history , the Mediterranean world in particular had made a cult of the Dioscuri , the Divine Twins . |
| 28 | The companies within the Food Product Division made progress and in particular have secured a number of new customers . |
| 29 | It is important , too , that close attention is paid to image building ( e.g. banks and insurance companies must be seen to be stable , reliable institutions , but with a friendly , non-intimidating attitude — an image which banks in particular have spent a lot of money fostering over the past decade ) . |
| 30 | The 53-year-old seating — installed when the school was built in 1938 had done a sterling job for the armed forces during the war and pupils alike over the year . |