Example sentences of "and [adj] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent .
2 We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent .
3 That was a Day Centre for erm mentally handicapped people , and that 's got a reprieve .
4 The earlier Welsh campaigns of 1277 and 1282–3 had cost a sum approaching £150,000 , while the building of the castles had added another £80,000 to this throughout the reign .
5 We had instilled in all of us a very strong sense of timing , which had to be to the second , and this had become a habit .
6 There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 .
7 ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods .
8 The interior of Hermiston Village , once torn apart by unremitting heavy traffic has now been bypassed by the realignment of A71 and this has provided an opportunity to improve the local environment immeasurably by the adoption of various hard and soft landscaping measures .
9 GRIST regulations ( section 9 , DES , 1986 ) allow the curriculum component of advisers ' work to be a charge against DES funds and this has released a number of posts frozen by local government cut-backs .
10 This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years .
11 Twenty-two patients complained of angina ( 16 with Grade 1/2 using the New York Heart Association classification ) , 5 had cardiac dyspnoea ( all Grade 2 ) , and 2 had suffered a reinfarction within the first year period .
12 The young orang-utans are sold abroad ; in Taiwan , where a television series portraying them as cute and cuddly has created a demand for orang-utan pets , they fetch up to £6,000 .
13 The English poll tax returns of 1377 , 1379 and 1381 have left a wealth of documentation , mainly in the form of indentures recording the number of 1377 tax-payers by vill and detailed rolls for 1379 and 1381 listing the names , assessments and often the occupational details and relationships of the tax-payers .
14 Most of the older officers have worked in pollution control for several years and many have had a number of years experience in industry , which , they are quick to point out , affords them an ‘ insider 's ’ sympathetic understanding of the difficulties and costs which arise in complying with standards .
15 ‘ Both Villa and United have spent a lot of money on quality players .
16 Sections 2 and 3 have developed a procedure for doing this .
17 Now a group of about 4,000 former residents of the institutions in the 1950s and 1960s has filed a lawsuit against seven religious orders that operated a dozen orphanages or mental hospitals , accusing them of physical , sexual and psychological abuse and seeks damages of almost £1 billion .
18 Previous bile acid treatment and gall stone characteristics — Most ( n=62 ) of the patients had previously taken chenodeyxholic acid for dissolution of their original or ‘ primary ’ gall stones but 27 had taken ursodeoxycholic acid and four had taken a combination of chenodeyxholic acid and ursodeoxycholic acid .
19 Both cut to pieces anything animal in their path , and both have acquired a mystique of terror in their own land .
20 The 1970s and 1980s have constituted a period of major transformation in Britain 's demographic patterns , notwithstanding the almost stationary size of the national population itself .
21 The 1970s and 1980s have seen a series of fundamental economic problems beset not only British but also international capitalism .
22 The word has got round and thousands have hitched a lift , taken a train or a bus to this outpost which is determined to bask in its moment of fame .
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