Example sentences of "[vb pp] have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adding two hours to the period within which night visits may be claimed has caused a clear rise in claims , and this accounts for most , but not all , of the increase observed since the 1990 contract . |
| 2 | Windows for Workgroup drivers will be delivered as part of a forthcoming PC-NFS release , said to be ‘ imminent , ’ by which time Microsoft is expected to have released an updated version of Workgroup for Windows with a patch for PC-NFS support . |
| 3 | Many also claimed to have seen a banana-shaped object in the sky , and a characteristic illuminated sign . ’ |
| 4 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
| 5 | A group of People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) officers was reported to have formed a secret group backing the reinstatement of the former party chief , Zhao Ziyang . |
| 6 | On May 13 UK Royal Marines were reported to have killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded two others during a series of military skirmishes near Sarsank , in the north of the country . |
| 7 | Birkenhead , the chairman of the committee , which had produced rather limp conclusions , is reported to have broken an awed silence to announce that if the Prime Minister spoke to the House as he had just spoken to the Cabinet he would do so with unanimous support and triumphant outcome . |
| 8 | The landlady is reported to have seen a red stain on the ceiling of one room.She called the police , and they found the body . |
| 9 | In March 1989 Vietnam was reported to have repaid a token $5,000,000 in outstanding debts to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , in an attempt to secure fresh international aid . |
| 10 | The industry-backed " Competitiveness Council " , chaired by US Vice-President Dan Quayle , was reported to have played a key role in influencing Administration policy . |
| 11 | Maung Hla , a Myanma military commander in charge of border operations , was reported to have told a Thai delegation in Myawadi on Jan. 3 , 1990 , that the Myanma government was determined to " wipe out " insurgents operating along the Thai-Myanma border . |
| 12 | He was also reported to have told a white worker not to resign , as management was ‘ only after the blacks ’ . |
| 13 | On Aug. 21 the Speaker of the Iranian Majlis ( parliament ) , Ayatollah Mehdi Karrubi , was reported to have told an open session of the Majlis that while Iran condemned the US military presence in the Gulf region , " we announce explicitly that Iraq 's aggression against Kuwait is condemned " . |
| 14 | On June 13 Cohen was reported to have proposed a partial withdrawal of rebel forces from the south and the opening of land routes to the town of Juba . |
| 15 | Police who searched the house of Baland in Blois after his arrest are reported to have found a wide range of forgeries including four Chagall drawings , four works by Dérain , ten by Dufy , two by Jean Cocteau , a Camille Pissarro and eighteen drawings described as being by ‘ Maîtres de l'école de Pont-Aven ’ . |
| 16 | The handsome Lotus marketing manager is reported to have rented a luxury cottage 25 miles from the Queen 's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk . |
| 17 | Sun was reported to have set an initial tag of $5,495 on the thing last week ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 18 | The UN special envoy to the territory , Yakoub Khan , was reported to have submitted a pessimistic report to the Security Council on Oct. 28 , emphasizing the difficulty of ascertaining who should vote in a referendum on self-determination in Western Sahara . |
| 19 | Forest 's £3 million-rated midfielder Roy Keane is reported to have agreed an extended contract for another two years . |
| 20 | None of the families interviewed had experienced a sudden infant death . |
| 21 | Since science 's primary role is that of commentator rather than practitioner , the set of transformation rules and practices by which the radical 's dilemma is resolved have taken a special form . |
| 22 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 23 | The original sin began in the first cabinet when treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton was said to have misused a married woman and government funds . |
| 24 | This was true of 6.5 per cent of defendants appearing in the Crown Court and 12.2 per cent who were proceeded against in the magistrates ' courts in 1999 , all of whom could be said to have suffered a double injustice . |
| 25 | Again , during the American War of Independence , their colonel is said to have given a long speech under heavy fire about Spartan discipline and the efficient military system of the Lacedaemonians . |
| 26 | The Smiths could be said to have done a final demolition job on punk rock '76 style . |
| 27 | Financially astute , Alice cultivated people like the financier , Sir Ernest Cassel [ q.v. ] , and is said to have realized a considerable sum by the sale of certain rubber shares presented to her by her royal lover . |
| 28 | Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write . |
| 29 | Putting it crudely , a core of knowledge , such that if a student knew certain facts , he could be said to have reached a certain standard . |
| 30 | Armed guards told thousands of people with jobs in the western sector they should not report for work ‘ for the time being ’ , while a few were said to have turned a blind eye as scores of their fellow citizens ran for freedom . |