Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act , which made this possible , CPRW has continued to take a keen interest in ensuring that the protection afforded by this designation is effectively applied , especially in the three National Parks of Wales . |
| 2 | Rather more officially , Radio Moscow has started to sell a faxed information service of its own , using leased Japanese equipment . |
| 3 | I think Sussex has got to find a new , new hat , and got to express itself and demonstrate that it is in no sense relying on twenty five years of erm of erm fairly high reputation that the next twenty five years and the next twenty five years after that are just as challenging , perhaps even more so . |
| 4 | Each NIC has attempted to develop a broad industrial base to satisfy domestic demand and diversify exports so as to reduce reliance on a few major primary commodities , e.g. coffee , meat , rubber . |
| 5 | STOKE forward Wayne Biggins has refused to sign a new contract unless he gets an immediate pay rise . |
| 6 | Mr Shekhar has managed to avoid a diplomatic row with America by quietly persuading President Bush to withdraw his request for permission . |
| 7 | Wright had threatened to complete a unique Wembley double for his team by heading Arsenal in front after 21 minutes with his 29th goal of the season . |
| 8 | 87 MINUTES : Kiwomya slipped the ball past the advancing Flowers after Monkou had tried to head a long ball from Guentchev back to his keeper . |
| 9 | Unfortunately the third sentence sends us reeling back to square one in terms of methodological confusion : we are now told that just because Keynes had tried to provide a theoretical underpinning for the concept of involuntary unemployment does not , ipso facto , oblige subsequent theorists to ‘ 'explain ’ the theoretical constructs of our predecessors ' . |
| 10 | Sometimes she would be invited to her sister 's house , but not too often now , because it must be admitted that with the passing of the years Aunt Nessy had come to look a little eccentric . |
| 11 | One of the Festival 's six major themes is that of ‘ Recreation and Sport ’ and the Scottish Sports Council through Actionsport Scotland has undertaken to organise a daily programme of sports activities . |
| 12 | Conventional vetinary medicine failed to help the bird , but since undergoing a course of acupuncture at a surgery in Stroud , the Swan has begun to make a remarkable recovery . |
| 13 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 14 | As a young director working with all-male crews , Karen has had to confront a high level of overt sexism , something the grant-aided sector does n't necessarily prepare you for . |
| 15 | Malaysia 's Agriculture Minister Sanusi Junid said ASEAN had agreed to take a common stand to discourage similar actions by other countries . |
| 16 | Reports suggested that senior figures in the ANC had sought to prevent a top-level meeting until it appeared that a cessation of violence could not be brought about by any other means . |
| 17 | By the late 1850s Darwin had begun to prepare a multi-volumed account of his theory for publication . |
| 18 | The two major causes of this were first , increasing doubts about the validity of Darwin 's ideas of natural and sexual selection ( Darwin had failed to produce a satisfactory theory of heredity ) , and second , new empirical research findings and observable changes in the position of women , particularly the increasing numbers of single women in the labour force . |
| 19 | For example , Nigel had started to do a little cooking again , and there 's no point trying to prepare a dish without the wit to understand the recipe when one needs it . |
| 20 | While both the BSP and the UDF had called for calm , the UDF had refused to sign a BSP-inspired non-violence declaration ( which many opposition parties rejected as a BSP propaganda ploy ) , issuing instead on May 27 its own non-violence declaration , which included the rejection of violence , government overthrow by force and racial discrimination . |
| 21 | Br. , 1982 , 18 , 775 ) , Prof Michael Grätzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has managed to construct a photovoltaic cell out of cheap materials , and with an energy conversion efficiency that is commercially realistic ( Nature , 1991 , 353 , 737 ) . |
| 22 | Richard and his friends Mark and Martin Lloyd , Dave Scott and Harry Anstess had decided to build a faithful model railway of the 1955–60 period . |
| 23 | NATO had proposed to create a new " rapid reaction force " in Europe , which it wanted to bear the responsibility for the front-line defence of the region , as the USA 's own troop presence in Western Europe was wound down [ see p. 38216 ] . |
| 24 | One activity that has already been set up is the international Intor workshop , in which groups from the US , Europe , japan and the USSR have met to establish a common set of objectives and an optimum design for demonstrating the technology needed for a fusion reactor based on the tokamak system . |
| 25 | The regions will decide whether the strategy Mr Yeltsin has chosen to get a new constitution adopted will succeed or fail . |
| 26 | Having received this notice of intention to wind up their company at Coldharbour Road , Smith & Jones once more offered £500 , this time in an open letter , in full and final satisfaction of the claim for £1250 , GFT having failed to provide a satisfactory explanation as to damage and delay . |
| 27 | Richmond 's back-row was especially impressive , and Hudson , a lively forager , thoroughly deserved his first-half try , after Roundhay had failed to kill a loose ball . |
| 28 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 29 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 30 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |