Example sentences of "[adj] have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRUDENTIAL has launched a new range of flexible pensions products which can be converted to a free-standing additional voluntary contribution and vice versa , and allow contribution levels to be reduced or even suspended altogether for up to five years . |
| 2 | Here , Dr Dick Hobbs , one of Britain 's foremost criminologists , believes Labour has learnt an important lesson from the Conservatives . |
| 3 | The chromatography company J & W Scientific has introduced an upgraded column with increased sensitivity through lower chemical activity , the DB-5ms , for both GC and GC/MS systems . |
| 4 | Paar Scientific has launched a liquid density standards service for density meter users . |
| 5 | From it I learn that a seven year old has achieved a satisfactory standard if he can tell the time accurately in units of five minutes ! ) . |
| 6 | The Centre for the Unemployed has done a great deal for us . |
| 7 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 8 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 9 | The British had launched a powerful attack , and first Mersa Matruh ( which Mussolini had planned to enter in triumph ) fell , then Bardia and Tobruk . |
| 10 | The Scottish United Service Museum is very useful for those investigation a military subject but that is all and so it limited and those who are interested have to make an advanced appointment which means that when they arrive all books will be ready for them . |
| 11 | The French have gone a long way towards providing a road and water supply and members of the ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation are studying in Budapest , Vienna and Germany to obtain qualifications in medicine , physiotherapy , occupational therapy and other skills which will enable them to provide the day-to-day care of the residents in the future . |
| 12 | The French and British governments are following exactly the opposite policies on production in the public sector ; the French have nationalised an additional 12% of industrial output while the British have begun to sell public assets to the private sector and to plan a vigorous programme of privatisation over the next few years . |
| 13 | Photech Engineering Ltd. has produced an underwater housing system for format cameras which allows the user to start with a basic housing system and build on it , take full advantage of their camera system and even to change camera systems altogether at a relatively small cost . |
| 14 | It was a new experience for her to want to open up to someone , especially a man ; but another part of her was relieved to have found a kindred spirit she could confide in . |
| 15 | He dosed it up , obviously delighted to have found a reasonable explanation . |
| 16 | The accused had fixed a new glass fibre wing on his car the day after the accident , and he said he could n't remember what he 'd done with the old one . |
| 17 | In Smith [ 1979 ] Crim LR 251 the judge seems to have directed the jury that in this type of manslaughter the accused had to foresee a real risk to his wife 's health , and Sheppard [ 1981 ] AC 394 confirmed that this was so . |
| 18 | The Japanese have commissioned a British company to build a replica Elizabethan village to help its students appreciate English culture . |
| 19 | Initially , most of these sales were made through mail order specialists but retail has become a growing sector and today accounts for about half of current sales . |
| 20 | We are lucky to have secured a reliable supply of crosswords and will try to include a crossword in every other Journal — starting with this one : turn to page 17 |
| 21 | We must of course make full allowance for the disappearance of the most important historical sources of the third century B.C. Hieronymus of Cardia is likely to have given a precise account of the Celtic events of 280–275 B.C. Later Phylarchus continued the story . |
| 22 | Pollution is likely to have played a key role in the mass die-offs of seals , dolphins and fish and other natural disasters in recent years , she claimed . |
| 23 | Financial considerations are likely to have played an important part in the decision that redundancies are necessary . |
| 24 | Their enthusiasm for such work is likely to have played an important part in the results . |
| 25 | Once established , however , this function is likely to have assumed an over-riding importance at those towns which were most suitably placed to exploit its potential . |
| 26 | When you decide to practise , do not choose a difficult water , or difficult fish , where you are likely to have to wait a long time for a bite . |
| 27 | In the admittedly biassed complaint sent to the Duke of Montrose by Mungo Graeme of Gorthie in 1716 , Gorthie 's brother , John Graeme , does appear more likely to have proven an effective revenue officer than the man whom Campbell interest placed in the post of land surveyor : |
| 28 | The engraving on the outer face of the Mezine example , while decorative , is also likely to have had a symbolic meaning . |
| 29 | This is likely to have had a great influence on the goals and , in particular , the mission statement of the organisation which were discussed in Section 2.2 . |
| 30 | Nevertheless some of the law in the Pactus is likely to have had a royal origin . |