Example sentences of "and [noun prp] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The events in East Germany and Czechoslovakia have made a strong impact , he says . |
| 2 | He 'd brought home some hairs from the cross on the back of a donkey when she was cutting her teeth , and Ma had made a little black silk bag to put them in so they could hang round her neck to keep the funny turns away . |
| 3 | Scotland 's coach , Ian McGeechan , made the pertinent point that fixtures against Fiji and Romania had provided a valuable contrast of styles , expansive and then forward dominated , that were useful preparation for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 4 | Both Cripps and Denniss have found a strong correlation between late potentials and the inducibility of ventricular arrhythmias at programmed ventricular stimulation . |
| 5 | The Guinness bid transformed the company into an international giant and Ward had played a vital role in bringing this about . |
| 6 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 7 | There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle , and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy . |
| 8 | Klima may perhaps be a common name in Czechoslovakia , and Kundera has become a common name in the conversation of Western readers , who are drawn to these reciprocal concerns of his . |
| 9 | She and Madge had begun a guarded friendship based on a similar sense of humour and a past that both of them skirted around . |
| 10 | Since then , Australia 's become something of an , ahem , spiritual home for David , and Nic has become a close confidant and inspiration . |
| 11 | Kwik-fit and ATS have stolen a considerable slice of the market in recent years , but now the industry is fighting back . |
| 12 | Making herself examine this thought , slowly and properly turning it around in her mind , recreating the scene which she could see so vividly of Jasper and Bert with the two I.R.A. , she had to admit that Jasper and Bert had made a bad impression . |
| 13 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 14 | I could talk to anybody in fluent French , and Marius had managed a good grasp of the language . |
| 15 | Sears , Maccoby and Levin had described a great many such relationships : the greatest upset in children resulting from severe toilet training , for example , was found when it was combined with a cold , undemonstrative attitude on the part of the mother ; children experiencing some rejection tended to show more dependent behaviour than accepted children ; the greatest aggressiveness resulted from a combination of a highly permissive attitude and occasional severe punishment , and so on . |
| 16 | Crews has referred to ‘ a self-congratulatory hermeticism whose purpose seems to lie somewhere between the dropping of names , the displaying of tidbits of esoterica , and the muddling of agency ’ , and Tallis has written a cruel parody of Hartman 's prose . |
| 17 | It is argued with ample justification that Germany , France , the Netherlands , Belgium , Luxembourg and Denmark have achieved a sufficient degree of monetary convergence that could immediately proceed to form a currency union . |
| 18 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 19 | The process reaches its logical conclusion in OS/2 Version 2 and the news that Apple Computer Inc and IBM have started a joint project that will produce a CICS client for the Apple Macintosh . |
| 20 | Successful completion of a complex exercise such as this upgrade requires team work and a project team consisting of people from Services Delivery , Technical Services Systems Development and IBM have spent a considerable amount of time over the last few weeks to ensure that the upgrade when ahead without impact on Technology 's customers . |
| 21 | On a good pitch , England struggled after Gooch and Larkins had made a solid start , and 188 for 8 was disappointing . |
| 22 | Harper , Smith and Winter had denied a joint charge of the manslaughter of the girls , and a joint arson charge . |
| 23 | But in questioning the way that meanings are structured in social contexts , Lévi-Strauss and Barthes have created a new object for sociological analysis — discourse . |
| 24 | The Lithuanian Ministry of Communications and Informatics has announced a new state programme called ‘ Lithuania — 2000 ’ : G Zintelis and his deputy minister A Bazevichus say the government , scientific community and industry will pool resources to create telecommunications networks and five large commercial databases ; the government 's own data system will be also restructured and among the companies participating in the programme are Compagnie des Machines Bull SA of France , Mentor Informatic , Mogens Rasmussen and IBM Finland . |
| 25 | England 's Premier League and BSkyB have signed a massive £304 million five-year deal to show 60 League games live on Sundays and Mondays , with highlights on the BBC on Saturday nights . |
| 26 | Where the early films of Reisz , Schlesinger and Richards had analyzed a class-ridden society , they were now being asked to celebrate classlessness . |
| 27 | British forces arriving in Malaya and Singapore had received a warm welcome ; the same might be expected in Indonesia ( in Sumatra the British arrival proceeded without serious incident ) . |
| 28 | ‘ At the moment , Clive and Trevor have got a good pattern going and I do n't think playing three strikers figures in the manager 's plans . ’ |
| 29 | And HMV have offered a massive spending spree in the new shop to be won by Echo readers . |
| 30 | And the Association of Premier League and Football League Referees and Linesmen has issued a strongly-worded statement claiming Kelly has ‘ caused immeasurable harm to the game . ’ |