Example sentences of "[det] [noun] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I and an ‘ ex-student ’ of this course have formed a university base for clinical forensic medicine within a division of legal medicine attached to the department of pathological studies of Manchester University . |
| 2 | Some authorities have suggested a change in diet for such cats , but there seems little logic in this unless the new diet helps to reduce boredom . |
| 3 | In the effort to spice up the Enya alliance , some journalists have made a meal out of ‘ menage a trois ’ speculation . |
| 4 | But it has also begun to create a corporate culture where some companies have become a kind of economic prison where senior management can legally abuse and ill-treat their employees , and silence any protest with the threat of the sack . |
| 5 | But some insects have found a way of eating the leaves . |
| 6 | Writing in The Executive Grapevine , he sees natural competition between search firms as enough to foster and maintain their quality , and considers that the last few years have witnessed a weeding-out of the less professional outfits resulting in fewer and better consultants . |
| 7 | This has already happened in microelectronics and the last few years have seen a revolution in this respect . |
| 8 | The past few years have seen a hardening of presidential arteries . |
| 9 | The tensions and contradictions in this scenario have produced a response , not from politicians , but from a small but growing section of the population involved in various forms of social and community action . |
| 10 | All the cases analysed up to this point have involved a relationship of incidence between the infinitive and some other verb . |
| 11 | This phenomenon is almost impossible to illustrate in a monologue , and I would at this point have issued a handout , if the talk were not being recorded , for it is very easy to see a sentence in progress when the turns in the dialogue are written down . |
| 12 | Some scholars have argued that despite the front quality of OE /ae/ , ME a was a back vowel ( or perhaps merely a fully low vowel : it is not always clear what is meant by ‘ back vowel ’ ) , and on this basis have postulated a change around 1600 from a back ( or low ) value to front-raised /ae/ , which is of course the modern conservative RP value . |
| 13 | Some plants have developed a method of defence against this kind of attack . |
| 14 | Though some suppliers have made a point of stressing the ergonomic aspects of their products , many supply inadequate information on their equipment . |
| 15 | Man works far below his capacity ; some writers have put a figure on the deficiency but it is of little value to you to make quantitative estimates . |
| 16 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 17 | Some people have made a god of it . |
| 18 | Some people have mounted a coup d'état . |
| 19 | Nevin said : ‘ Some people have put a question mark over our away form but we have n't always got what we deserved so to beat a side of Leicester 's calibre is very heartening . |
| 20 | Since some critics have made a link between Cockrill and Peter Lanyon , it is appropriate that this exhibition tours to the Newlyn Art Gallery in June and will be seen at Exeter 's Spacex Gallery and at the Plymouth Art Centre . |
| 21 | Later on , and particularly in 1950 , one might wonder whether the particulars of US policy towards Vietnam had been swamped in the generalities of across-the-board resistance to communism ; but even before some critics have discerned a militarization and globalization of US policy , and before the emotional climate of the US changed , one may see , as a piece of sober analysis , the beginning of a policy based on certain not altogether unfounded assumptions about communism , China , and the objectives of the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | It 's embarrassing and they take advantage especially at parties where some girls have had a lot to drink . ’ |
| 23 | Some scholars have suggested a site near Inverness ; others the junction of the rivers Tay and Isla . |
| 24 | Although our debates on this subject have attracted a flurry of interest , attendances at debates on the European Community are not noted for their large size . |
| 25 | Few men have enjoyed a Wembley cup final day more than John Sillett . |
| 26 | Some stores have reported a drop in trade since vehicles were barred from Skinnergate and High Row last Monday , councillors have been told . |
| 27 | Some historians have estimated a slave population in eighth-century Sussex of almost twenty thousand . |
| 28 | ‘ People this year have spent a lot of time paying off their debts and credit cards and digging into their savings . ’ |
| 29 | From this tradition have emerged a number of notable black Gospel choirs , some of them performing to a very high standard . |
| 30 | Few novelists have created a character as cunningly idealistic as Seldon , who used the science of ‘ psychohistory ’ , a combination of history , mathematics , sociology and psychology , to predict and control the future . |