Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR , — Successful attempts at inducing pregnancies in women after menopause have prompted a response from a higher authority , who feels that publication of His work has been overlooked by modern authors . |
| 2 | which of course have lost a lot of money in the last year or two . |
| 3 | The Royal Commissions and official committees of inquiry have maintained a reticence on such matters that has at times made their recommendations Appear naïve — as if one could consider the reorganisation of Political institutions in isolation from politics ! |
| 4 | I have studied some interesting research which shows that , on previous occasions , the Home Secretary and the Minister of State have drawn a comparison with the depression in the 1930s . |
| 5 | These fundamental differences in the explanations of Brown and Harris and those of Henderson and his colleagues about the role of social support in the aetiology of depression have prompted a search for the reasons for their discrepant findings . |
| 6 | The demands of survival have enforced a form of anarchism on Anarres . |
| 7 | Perhaps those hon. Members who have raised points of order have done a service to the hon. Members who wish to take part in the ballot . |
| 8 | Now the ripples of self-doubt have become a groundswell , and it seems worthwhile to trace why and how radical changes in methodology have begun to take effect . |
| 9 | Opponents of a planned incinerator for cattle carcasses infected with BSE have condemned a government minister for approving the scheme . |
| 10 | Wetlands under threat have included a variety of landscapes : swamps of tall reed or reed sweet-grass ; marshes of rush and sedge , which sometimes develop into scrub of willow and bog myrtle ; fens , whose lush vegetation is nourished by alkaline groundwater , and which range from open pools , often the remains of peat cutting , to grazed beds of meadowsweet and iris , grading in turn to the wet woodlands known as alder ‘ carr ’ ; mires , such as the mosses of the North-West , whose deep peatlands support sphagnum moss and heather , scattered with glades of birch , the favourite haunt of nightjars . |
| 11 | Similarly , the educational non-achievers are over-represented — at the other end of the educational achievement ladder there appear to be hardly any criminals , since only 0.05 per cent of people received into prison have obtained a university degree . |
| 12 | The subsequent demoralisation in evidence throughout British coalfields has been mitigated to some degree in South Yorkshire by blame for defeat focusing on a clearly identifiable minority , who in response have developed a set of parallel social institutions . |
| 13 | Campaigners fighting to save a hospital from closure have delivered a petition to Downing Street , calling for the plans to be scrapped . |
| 14 | That 's why the unions in engineering have developed a training for engineering strategy . |
| 15 | ‘ I myself can not even begin to imagine by what mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the reputed subtleties of Keynsian economics ( the process which has , apparently , saved the capitalist system from the collapse which would in turn have provoked a revolution ) to the blatant crudities of contemplating intercourse with a mindless whore . |