Example sentences of "of [noun] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without doubt , however , the fall of the barriers between 2.1 million west Berliners , 1.3 million east Berliners and almost another million people in the surrounding area of Brandenburg has recreated a metropolis with immense economic pulling power . |
| 2 | The state of Tennessee had passed a law forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution on the ground that it " denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible " . |
| 3 | A year after a referendum failed to endorse proposed sweeping restrictions on hunting [ see ED no. 35/36 ] , the Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill cutting the hunting season by three months , restricting hunters to designated reserves and limiting the number of species which can be killed . |
| 4 | There are no votes in plans to pension off the Queen , and the House of Windsor has achieved a stability which would have surprised some previous royal households . |
| 5 | The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a warning against eating fish caught in the River Mersey , because of contamination fears following the long-running leakage of dangerous chemicals from an old waste tip at Widnes , Cheshire . |
| 6 | Now , the United State 's Department of Agriculture has found a way to replace 30% of flour in cake mix with straw . |
| 7 | This petrification of the sound of adolescence has meant a loss of the essential dynamism , fluidity and reach of adolescence , its true pretentiousness . |
| 8 | The end of power-sharing had left a vacuum , which the constitutional convention had failed to fill , and Ulster staggered on with a vicious IRA campaign , tit-for-tat assassinations , unconvincing direct rule , and no obvious sense of direction . |
| 9 | Thursday afternoon me and mum looked after Daniel and Benjamin , cos erm , a relative of Sarah 's died a week before and the funeral was Thursday , so , I said to mum yes I 'd go up and help her |
| 10 | On 3 July the men of Huntingdonshire had made a perambulation in their county , which had until then been entirely forest , a perambulation which was declared to be ‘ in accordance with the Charter of the Forest ’ . |
| 11 | But one act of faith has remained a constant from palaeolithic times to cubism , from Tintoretto ( who also loved comets ) to Rothko . |
| 12 | which of course have lost a lot of money in the last year or two . |
| 13 | But they were not consulted , The Cabinet , had it wished , could of course have staged a revolt , But its collective mind was not nearly clear enough for that , and in any event , Chamberlain , embarrassed by his own self-interest , was almost the only minister who was both strong and wholly secure in his own job . |
| 14 | On the previous day , Alfred Hobson of Sheffield had told a party lunch that |
| 15 | A team of researchers has completed a tour of more than four hundred public houses across the country . |
| 16 | 11.57 / 3 Now some of the trees he planted are coming to the end of their natural life and the present Duke of Marlborough has begun a restoration programme to replace them and keep the landscape gardens they were originally laid-out . |
| 17 | CONFERENCE : The Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of Greenwich has organised a conference on construction opportunities in Russia . |
| 18 | Its wholly-owned Pick Systems Ltd of Moscow has signed a contract with the Russian Tax Department through the commercial arm of the Russian Ministry of Finance to provide Pick software and development services to computerise Russian tax collections . |
| 19 | The geographical destinations of exports have shown a swing towards the EC . |
| 20 | Mineral reconnaissance by the BGS north-east of Aberfeldy has located a number of geochemical and geophysical anomalies in the Ben Eagach Schist Formation around Glenshee ( Pease and others , 1986 ) where Zn-Pb-Ba mineralisation has been found ( MRP 88 ) . |
| 21 | The Sultan of Brunei has received a doctorate from Oxford University . |
| 22 | The volume of beer sold through Greenall 's pubs over the last couple of months has shown a fall on 1988 levels , said the group financial director , Mr Michael Davis , as he unveiled profits up 10.5 per cent to £52million for the year to September . |
| 23 | If there was a Libyan involved , the police proceedings were accompanied by self-help action , although the influx of foreigners had created a number of potential offenders and victims who did not fit into the system . |
| 24 | One of the world 's richest colonies of blue coral , situated off Japan 's southern island of Ishigaki has won a reprieve from development and , marine biologists believe , destruction . |
| 25 | The Witch of Jura had forced a man called MacPhie of Colonsay to stay on the island . |
| 26 | The second pitch of Syringe has lost a hold and is now 6a ( same E grade ) . |
| 27 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 28 | In the past few years the advent of AIDS has introduced a number of parasitic , bacterial and fungal diseases , some previously little known , that have proved to be highly pathogenic in immunocompromised patients . |
| 29 | In preparation for Cuba 's fourth Party Congress on 10 October , the Ecumenical Council of Cuba has submitted a document asking permission for churches and religious organisations to have much greater access to the mass media . |
| 30 | She forgot that she was tired and cold , that there was neither food nor fuel in the house , and that her only respectable pair of shoes had sprung a leak . |