Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 2 | ‘ Where Parliament has designated a public officer as decision-maker for a particular class of decisions the High Court , acting as a reviewing court under Order 53 , is not a court of appeal . |
| 3 | ‘ There are two sides to our operation , ’ he had explained , when he led her out of the office block and across a bleak enclosed courtyard , where footsteps had scored a diagonal path through the snow , towards a high windowless wall of corrugated iron . |
| 4 | So where Schleiermacher had drawn a sharp line between theology and philosophy , rejected metaphysics as an avenue of approaching truth , and stressed consciousness as lying deeper than rationality , Hegel subsumed theology under philosophy , and gave reason the highest place . |
| 5 | For one thing , Caldwell deals with cases where D has either recognized the risk or has failed to give any thought to it , whereas Morgan applies only where D has formed a distinct belief that the victim is consenting , a situation not explicitly covered by Caldwell . |
| 6 | Although camcorders have become a popular means of picture-taking , many more people are familiar with video in the form of table-top recorders ( VCRs ) for the time-shifting of television programmes and the viewing of rented films . |
| 7 | Although studies have shown a striking correlation between the presence of H pylori and classic inflammation of the antral mucosa , the exact mechanism of tissue injury remains obscure . |
| 8 | Although ZANU-PF had won a comfortable victory in the March general election , voter turnout had been low ; the forcing of the one-party issue had led to strains within the party . |
| 9 | Once Barbara had had a good look at her new style in the mirror , she was very pleased with the change . |
| 10 | Boards A , B , C , D have all started , although D has got a bad start by not passing close behind the start boat . |
| 11 | Andre Moga , the president of Beglès and one of the so-called ‘ barons ’ of French rugby , made the following comment : ‘ If Rodez had had a good president at the time this would not have reached court ’ . |
| 12 | On Jan. 10 , however , Japan announced that it would not help to finance debt-reduction schemes until Brazil had agreed a three-year extended facility with the IMF . |
| 13 | IF ENGLAND had wanted a tough competitive fixture to complete their domestic programme before the Students World Cup in Italy in July 1 , they could not have asked for better preparation that at Blundellsands yesterday . |
| 14 | The tribunal will only allow a trader 's appeal against such a direction if it considers that Customs could not reasonably have been satisfied : for example , if Customs have ignored a relevant matter or if they have taken an irrelevant matter into account . |
| 15 | If nature has endowed a particular market participant with all the current endowment of a certain resource , he is in the fortunate position of being a monopolist resource owner . |
| 16 | He must have been a very attractive man once , I thought , and then wondered , suddenly , if Adam had had a similar thought about me . |
| 17 | If Lotus has shown a total lack of imagination in developing 1-2-3 for Windows , maybe it 's because all its innovative effort has been poured into Improv . |
| 18 | But not without difficulty and not until Butler had assembled a complicated financial package which included generous loans to enable the voluntary bodies to build or convert schools for secondary purposes . |
| 19 | At other times she would refuse to let Rosengarten in the house , especially if Leonard had had a late night out . |
| 20 | Indeed , until cartography had reached a certain level of development it was very difficult to think of frontiers at all in these linear terms . |
| 21 | This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel |
| 22 | No , cos Sandra 's got a little puppy she said oh I 'd like you to come and see the cottage and er my puppy . |
| 23 | If children have had a long period without normal feeding experiences they find difficulty in accepting oral food , chewing , and swallowing . |
| 24 | Moping around Meadowlands last year when Mario 's son was racing and the old man was too and the whole scene was as unglamorous as the Jersey flatlands can be , the burgers blazing on wet barbecues , Karl Haas 's cigar smouldering briefly in the foreground , it was as if Mario had brought a whole world of his own into the paddock , a world he 'd always had , that was completely self-sufficient and had a cleaner , friendlier air . |
| 25 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 26 | It 's not a good idea because Richard 's got a streaming cold and James has n't . |
| 27 | Nursing unions at Greenbank Hospital , Darlington , yesterday said a decision to invoke dispute procedure was delayed until next week because management had called a joint meeting with staff and unions next Monday . |
| 28 | Just because Sunil had had a nasty experience did n't mean that his sleeping pattern would have changed . |
| 29 | Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing . |
| 30 | The progress of life unfolded in the way it did because God had imposed a preordained sequence of developmental stages through which organisms must ascend towards the human form . |