Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few years , the Pentagon has invested several billion dollars in technology related to defences against ballistic missiles , including guided anti-ballistic missiles , particle beams and high-energy lasers . |
| 2 | Jellie Dijkstra has published some telling information she discovered in Belgian archives : around one-third of all the fifteenth-century commissions and half of the sixteenth-century commissions request a copy of one kind or another . |
| 3 | Jeff Banks has designed this cropped swing coat ( £95 ) with matching shorts ( £39.99 ) and A-line button back tunic ( £85 ) exclusively for House of Fraser Stores ( 071 834 1515 ) |
| 4 | It 's does n't matter but Ian has suggested that next time we appoint a treasurer who has the account |
| 5 | Rugby has survived all these years as a good robust contact sport , and as we are always being told by the medical profession that modern youth is bigger , stronger and fitter than children of previous generations , why ca n't we play rugby as it is supposed to be played rather than a genteel non-contact pass ball ? |
| 6 | A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman on Dec. 2 denied the latest allegations , stressing that " Pakistan 's nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes " , but added that " in the evolution of this programme Pakistan has acquired some technical capabilities " . |
| 7 | Even if any of this were serious , there is no evidence that Mr Gorbachev has felt any pressing need , at least until now , to intervene militarily in Romania . |
| 8 | THE explosion on 30 June 1908 over Tunguska has inspired many exotic explanations . |
| 9 | ‘ Ronnie has written some wonderful characters . |
| 10 | Koons has found some unlikely allies among New York 's art critics . |
| 11 | Mrs Lamport has unearthed much fascinating information on the theatre-goers named on the fan and now hopes it will be published in book form . |
| 12 | ‘ After all , even if Jefferson has perfected some magic putter which gives Harley an illegal edge on the greens , he will never be allowed to sell it to the ordinary punter , so there 's no point . |
| 13 | Becky has to make several more trips to the Radcliffe Infirmary before she 's finished . |
| 14 | The other engine , Bert has clocked some 10 hours in all . |
| 15 | Since taking over Wheal Jane from Consolidated Gold Fields in 1981 , Rio Tinto has spent several million pounds improving production methods . |
| 16 | Ten years later it was a slightly different story : only Sarah and Mary appear in the census , Ann having died that very year , aged sixty-nine . |
| 17 | He had moreover , unlike Boethius , had the experience of seeing what Viking pirates did to his defenceless subjects ; and again unlike Boethius had taken such drastic measures against evil as hanging Viking prisoners , and rebellious monks , and in all probability cutting the throats of any wounded pirates so unlucky as to be left on the battlefield . |
| 18 | Paisley had acquired some further support for his reputation for prophecy by his prediction of the introduction of direct rule and he did not publicly regret the end of Stormont . |
| 19 | On Dec. 19 Radio Djibouti announced that the RPP had won all 65 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 20 | Camus 's L'Etranger ( 1942 ) is also marred ( at least for Robbe-Grillet ) by the unwelcome intrusion of a ‘ metaphorical ’ vocabulary in the second part of the novel : in his landmark essay ‘ Nature , Humanisme , Tragédie ’ ( 1958 ) and in Le Miroir qui revient , Robbe-Grillet had condemned this unfortunate lapse from ‘ le degré zéro de l'écriture ’ almost as a kind of betrayal of modernism , and as deficient in phenomenological terms by establishing a complicity between man and the world . |
| 21 | If Kegan had waited another few minutes I could have got it settled . |
| 22 | The KGB had penetrated all these organizations over the years , but the purpose and the location of this summit was kept secret . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm having two poems published in Novy Mir , ’ she said aloud ; ‘ Dmitri 's had some good luck too . |
| 24 | Respect for the individual implies equal opportunity for women and minorities — and IBM has set some good examples . |
| 25 | Stuart Cole has given some preliminary thought to the ground the study should cover , although nothing is final . |
| 26 | Konrad Oberhuber has attributed many new drawings to Giorgione in his section on the drawings and engravings by Giorgione and the young Titian , but Ballarin does not entirely share his views . |
| 27 | But , as Ms Topaz has reminded all fair goers in her pre departure interdepartmental memo , this is not a frivolous junket . |
| 28 | The effect of this process is not yet clear , although G. R. Potts has produced some valuable information during studies of the Grey Partridge on the Downs near Worthing . |
| 29 | In response to a request by the Ministry of Post & Telecommunications , Guiraudios said France Telecom has proposed some technical methods to restrict access to Minitel . |
| 30 | Frank has organised this novel method of fund raising — final date for offers is December 14 . |