Example sentences of "[coord] have [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It suggests that your vehicle was once petrol engined or has had the wrong springs fitted at some point .
2 On the assumption that the local authority has acted in good faith , and has followed the statutory procedures correctly , this will require him to satisfy the court not merely that the court itself would regard the accommodation as unsuitable , but that no reasonable council could regard it otherwise than as unsuitable .
3 Just turned 21 , she has sold more than 30 million records worldwide , has made a major feature film and has silenced the carping critics with a massively successful debut tour as a live performer .
4 In effect the exporter assumes the role of a buyer and has to market the counter-purchased goods .
5 Financing Transport Infrastructure : This working party has now met several times and has established the key issues it wishes to address in its final report .
6 I urge him to study the remarks of Professor Glennerster , who knows rather more about this matter than he does and has laid the two-tier rumours to rest once and for all .
7 Fuji has introduced a range of new courses in the Fuji Professional School of Photography , and has adapted the traditional courses to challenge the way photographers look at portraiture .
8 Fuji has introduced a range of new courses in the Fuji Professional School of Photography , and has adapted the traditional courses to challenge the way photographers look at portraiture .
9 The unrest stems from their demand for higher salaries and better working conditions and has brought the day-to-day operations at the ministry of finance to a virtual standstill .
10 Skvorecky left his country to teach in North America — as did the Dubcekite Klima — and has improved the shining hours of a Canadian exile .
11 The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others .
12 This chapter has demonstrated the need to take account of demographic projections when planning education provision and has identified the main areas which should be considered when calculating such projections .
13 The Accademia 's curator Annalisa Perissa Torrina has compiled detailed notes on each of the 221 drawings now in the Accademia and has identified the original sources of the reproductive drawings , 124 of which are reproduced for the first time .
14 The examination of rape coverage over time shows in particular how this topic has left the narrow audience of the News of the World and has entered the popular dailies on a large scale .
15 The 1844 Report hints however that there had been some decline in standards at the lower end of the School , and urged that " prior to admission the Boys should be able to read and write and have learned the first principles of English grammar .
16 It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception .
17 In the meantime , someone had found that there was some sort of balm that we could rub on his bum before the event , but an echo that I will tell you and I will never ever forget , I can honestly say that having witnessed that ordeal and experienced the aftermath , and having seen the vicious weals on Buster 's backside , I have never ever stolen a thing of any value since .
18 Having considered the intrinsic nature of the problem presented in this appeal , and having consulted the relevant authorities , my conclusion … is that an action lies in negligence for damages in respect of purely economic loss , provided that it was a reasonably foreseeable and direct consequence of failure in a duty of care .
19 Rather than wake him by pulling the clothes off him and having to face the likely consequences , Mrs Stych put her housecoat over her nightgown , got a spare blanket out of her old hope chest , and eased herself down beside the chrysalis which was her husband .
20 The therapist pointed out that the changes that had taken place in her life were the result of her having discussed her problems with her family and having taken the necessary steps to solve them .
21 He had championed the cause of the poor for many years in a series of investigative articles , and had highlighted the terrible conditions in which a large proportion of the ordinary Dublin people lived .
22 She had conquered this feeling sufficiently to allow her to accept visits from her friends , and had overcome the apologetic murmurs that used to assail her as she opened her bedroom door ; she felt , in part , absolved by the wonderfully institutional shape of her room , which was on the third floor of a large block in the middle of Regents Park .
23 There were others ( such as Howard Teicher , who had gone on the trip to Tehran and had seen the spare parts in the back of the plane ) who were ‘ not in all the boxes within the boxes but some element of the box ’ .
24 It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s .
25 The exercise had made the public familiar with the coalition and had given the local branches of the three parties experience in working together for a common purpose .
26 By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader .
27 Constructed " on a large scale " , she was en route from her birthplace in Scotland to London , and had steamed the 120 miles from Milford Haven against a head wind at an incredible 10 knots .
28 I really did n't intend to join this regiment , in fact I was making efforts to rejoin the Yeomanry , who are out here [ his former regiment had landed in Algeria as part of the 6th Armoured Division in the First Army and had supported the 1st Guards Brigade in the battle for Tunis ] , but the C.O. of this regiment chose me by interview and I had to go , being only a very small cog in the wheels of war .
29 ‘ But ’ , as Mrs Napier George Sturt described in her Life of Charles Stun , ‘ these paintings had been the delight of Sturt 's leisure ; he was devoted to ornithology , and had collected the rarer specimens at great trouble and risk , and at no price would he part with the folio . ’
30 She had bought a pretty pine desk , and had scoured the antique shops until she found the perfect eighteenth-century light-mahogany chair to go with it .
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