Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life for Ginger had become a roller-coaster but she was a survivor . |
| 2 | There was a pause on the line long enough for Pascoe to have taken a nap . |
| 3 | The Countryside Commission for Scotland has published a report recommending that four national parks should be created to prevent further damage to mountain areas . |
| 4 | Without doubt , however , the fall of the barriers between 2.1 million west Berliners , 1.3 million east Berliners and almost another million people in the surrounding area of Brandenburg has recreated a metropolis with immense economic pulling power . |
| 5 | The state of Tennessee had passed a law forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution on the ground that it " denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible " . |
| 6 | There are no votes in plans to pension off the Queen , and the House of Windsor has achieved a stability which would have surprised some previous royal households . |
| 7 | Thursday afternoon me and mum looked after Daniel and Benjamin , cos erm , a relative of Sarah 's died a week before and the funeral was Thursday , so , I said to mum yes I 'd go up and help her |
| 8 | On 3 July the men of Huntingdonshire had made a perambulation in their county , which had until then been entirely forest , a perambulation which was declared to be ‘ in accordance with the Charter of the Forest ’ . |
| 9 | On the previous day , Alfred Hobson of Sheffield had told a party lunch that |
| 10 | 11.57 / 3 Now some of the trees he planted are coming to the end of their natural life and the present Duke of Marlborough has begun a restoration programme to replace them and keep the landscape gardens they were originally laid-out . |
| 11 | CONFERENCE : The Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of Greenwich has organised a conference on construction opportunities in Russia . |
| 12 | Its wholly-owned Pick Systems Ltd of Moscow has signed a contract with the Russian Tax Department through the commercial arm of the Russian Ministry of Finance to provide Pick software and development services to computerise Russian tax collections . |
| 13 | Mineral reconnaissance by the BGS north-east of Aberfeldy has located a number of geochemical and geophysical anomalies in the Ben Eagach Schist Formation around Glenshee ( Pease and others , 1986 ) where Zn-Pb-Ba mineralisation has been found ( MRP 88 ) . |
| 14 | The Sultan of Brunei has received a doctorate from Oxford University . |
| 15 | One of the world 's richest colonies of blue coral , situated off Japan 's southern island of Ishigaki has won a reprieve from development and , marine biologists believe , destruction . |
| 16 | The Witch of Jura had forced a man called MacPhie of Colonsay to stay on the island . |
| 17 | Of course people do not become frenzied quite as readily in 1993 as they did in 1919 , but with the assistance of one of Edinburgh 's premiere restaurants , The Witchery , The Scotsman and the House of Sandeman have devised an evening which should enthuse even the most jaded citizen . |
| 18 | The second pitch of Syringe has lost a hold and is now 6a ( same E grade ) . |
| 19 | In preparation for Cuba 's fourth Party Congress on 10 October , the Ecumenical Council of Cuba has submitted a document asking permission for churches and religious organisations to have much greater access to the mass media . |
| 20 | Incentives for bank staff come under spotlight Performance targets introduced by the Royal Bank of Scotland have triggered a consumer row . |
| 21 | Since 1981 , the Bank of England has issued a number of index-linked bonds where both capital sum and interest payments are increased in line with changes in the retail price index ( RPI ) . |
| 22 | The Law Societies ' of England and Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have funded a team of researchers led by lecturer Dr Julian Lonbay , to draw up a report on the professional qualifications and training of lawyers , in order to help them determine how to implement the EEC Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years duration , which comes into force on 4 January 1991 . |
| 23 | The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 . |
| 24 | Exasperated by attacks by one or several bears on sheep , the mayor of the French Pyrenean village of Bielle has issued an order stipulating that " the bear or bears is causing a public nuisance and will be destroyed " . |
| 25 | The Communications Ministry of the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan has signed a series of agreements with Sprint International Inc and its Russian joint venture , Sprint Network , to develop general purpose communications networks in the republic : subscribers will be able to direct-dial to 110 countries via the network , which will be constructed around 19 communications centres in the major cities . |
| 26 | The University of Strathclyde has launched a search to find alumni who took the Diploma of the Royal Technical College , the Associateship of the Royal College of Science and Technology , or attended any of the wide range of evening and day release courses at the Commercial College . |
| 27 | Lord Kitchener , who warned that the war would last three years and not three months , launched a recruitment campaign in September 1914 which by the end of November had created an army of some 100,000 volunteers . |
| 28 | Martin Lester of Bristol has produced a Boeing 747 Jumbo jet , a Space Shuttle , countless sharks and even a flying Daedalus . |
| 29 | With extraordinary support from Japan , the Art Institute of Chicago has completed a $5-million reinstallation of its important East Asian collections , with expanded exhibition space , modernised storage and a new Asian Studies Center ( opening 3 June ) . |
| 30 | The Division of Communication of the United Church of Canada has launched a newsletter entitled ( In ) communicado to keep Church members and colleagues in closer touch with its communication activities and with each other . |