Example sentences of "the [det] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The island was a small one in the this has got a heart middle of the pond I could n't find the right line that 's why I did that . |
| 2 | The latter had formed a Master Printers " Association in 1846 , with the explicit aim of keeping out unionists and outlawing strikers . |
| 3 | The latter has become a form of economic drip-feed of dubious value to the patient , although it has maintained economic activity at a higher level than would otherwise be the case . |
| 4 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 5 | The former had taken a golf-club to a smooth , level patch of grass a short distance from the house which Philippe Bonard , anxious to cater for his clients ' leisure needs as well as their thirst for learning , had laid out as a green ; she had donned a pair of heavy-framed spectacles and was practising putting . |
| 6 | The former has written a foreword to Everest : The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour ( Little , Brown , May , £25 ) edited by Peter Gillman , which has over 150 colour and black and white photographs . |
| 7 | There was also speculation concerning the health of both Taufa'ahau Tupou and his aged Prime Minister , the former having cancelled a state visit to Japan in order to travel to Australia for medical treatment , the latter having been incapacitated for a number of years after suffering a stroke . |