Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Detectives say a hundred and ninety officers , many of them armed , were involved in Operation Lucy which has smashed a nationwide drugs and guns racket .
2 One possible solution might be the creation of country parks like those in Nottinghamshire which have proved a popular and well used resource for urban fringe recreation .
3 I said that we ought to er somebody asked me er from one of the national papers which ought to be put in place there and I did suggest that we ought to have a statue like just been mentioned to somebody from Beeston they 've got a nice man on a bench there .
4 Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite .
5 With a port virtually within the town and well-placed for access to the coastal plain , Downs and Weald it had become a significant trading centre .
6 ‘ I do n't know what it is about the ‘ 68 but as a Fender Jag it 's got a real thin sound .
7 As a frequent visitor to Scotland I have formed a great admiration for the Scottish farmer 's skills , particularly in animal husbandry and the attention that he pays to the production of a crop of whose product I am a not infrequent consumer .
8 The telephone network is now under the control and direction of British Telecom which has become a privatized monopoly .
9 To do this the study will analyse data from a project undertaken by the Policy Planning Research Unit of the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland which has followed a random sample of some 3,000 young people eligible to leave school in Northern ireland in 1984 and who have been re- interviewed annually until 1987 .
10 The plenum approved party policies under Rao which had marked a distinct move away from the Nehru model of socialism towards a free-market capitalist mixed economy .
11 Editor , — As a general practitioner in south east Scotland who has removed a malignant melanoma , I believe that R M Herd and colleagues have not taken into account that if general practitioners consider a lesion to be a malignant melanoma they are more likely to refer the patient urgently to a dermatologist than to excise the lesion themselves .
12 Even though there were many writers before Leapor who had made a similar affirmation , not least Katherine Phillips and Mary Astell , it must be recognized that to make such claims was to dispute a widely held belief , based on Aristotelian physiology , that women were by nature soft and therefore inconstant The best known statement of this view of women is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ .
13 I am indebted to John Tomlinson of The Helios Homœopathic Pharmacy in Tunbridge Wells who has made a particular study of the Organon 's instructions on preparation and administration of LM 's and whose advice enabled the inclusion of the final section entitled Variable Factors .
14 From his new home in England he had kept a close eye and ear as one disaster followed another .
15 ‘ Monumental Reputation ’ , arranged and researched by Iain Brown of the National Library ( following a suggestion by Alastair Rowan who has contributed a tape-slide presentation on Adam ) , is among the first attempts to explore in detail the making of an archaeological folio which changed the face of contemporary design .
16 Willie has big chances in the other televised races — on in-from After The Last and Jahafil who has won a big race in Ireland since losing to Spinning at Goodwood .
17 Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it .
18 Your comment about the headship rates raise an interesting issue , in fact goes back to the comment Mr made , about the West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire who 've got a consistent approach in projecting .
19 At Hulsta they 've developed a new process .
20 Q. I have acquired a beautiful Red Snakehead .
21 And Wembley itself has become a giant Room 101 .
22 It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence .
23 Powerful public examples of this were seen in photographs taken after the death of the American president J.F. Kennedy who had become a great folk hero to the American people .
24 In Russia for example we intend to launch a small partnership fund to support small projects promoted by the voluntary agencies in the United Kingdom who 've developed a wide range of connections with their Russian counterparts .
25 Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji , hitherto Minister of Budget and Planning , had been a critic of the policy of outgoing Finance Minister Chief Olu Falae who had taken a tough stance with creditors on the renegotiation of Nigeria 's foreign debt .
26 Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji , hitherto Minister of Budget and Planning , had been a critic of the policy of outgoing Finance Minister Chief Olu Falae who had taken a tough stance with creditors on the renegotiation of Nigeria 's foreign debt .
27 In Witney we 've got a big industrial estate and on the top of a forty foot pole there is a siren that was put up four years ago .
28 They do want stuff on local levels I mean if he 's East Herts he 's got a huge area , has n't he ?
29 Junior school B is in an LEA which has developed a primary mathematics record card .
30 O'Conor himself has played a restored Longman and Broderip piano — one which Field favoured , and says that it produced ‘ a unique tinkling sound — no wonder he exploited those high notes . ’
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