Example sentences of "a [noun sg] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When a submarine 's had a spectacular patrol , yes . |
| 2 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 3 | A friend with a Spitfire has bought a similar machine and a small group will no doubt emerge to enjoy this new game . |
| 4 | Finally , that a poet has written a good poem does not mean he or she is always capable of another , and to read Duck 's career as an arrested development may be sentimental . |
| 5 | As a juror , would you find that a defendant had committed a serious crime on such a basis ? |
| 6 | Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen . |
| 7 | The practical question which this paper also addresses is ‘ how can one tell when and whether a lawyer has done a good job ? ’ . |
| 8 | Workmen renovating a pub have made a gruesome discovery … a grave containing a horse 's head . |
| 9 | has arisen where a judge has passed a personal view about a woman , has n't he . |
| 10 | But it is most evident whenever a teacher has developed a real interest in some school subject or area of the curriculum , often the result of some form of limited subject specialisation by the teacher . |
| 11 | Labour ex-Cabinet minister Lord Healey warned : ‘ Lady Thatcher 's type of nationalism is the greatest single danger to peace in the modern world , and Mr Major 's failure to confront it head-on as such a danger has made a civil war in the government party a danger to Britain and to Europe as whole . ’ |
| 12 | Louth had prospered in this way after a canal had provided a direct link with the mouth of the Humber , 10 miles or so away . |
| 13 | It seems that the admission need not be an express one and that if , for instance , a plaintiff has pleaded a relevant conviction and the defendant admits it and does not claim that it was erroneous or irrelevant , the plaintiff should get his interim payment . |
| 14 | In four cases , Ghana in 1976 and 1979 , Nigeria in 1980 and Sudan in 1987 , military regimes have held elections which have returned civilian governments to power but in all four cases a coup has reinstated a military head of state . |
| 15 | Finally , it must be stressed that increases or changes in the rate of work should only be carried out once a person has attained a high standard of physical fitness . |
| 16 | Once a water has received a regular supply of HNV baits , and the carp have been hooked on special rigs , they are rarely caught on any other bait or method . |
| 17 | A charity has accused a psychiatric hospital of exposing women patients to the risk of sexual abuse . |
| 18 | ‘ From this trading account , you would expect the business as a whole to have made a thumping loss for the year … |
| 19 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 20 | A woman had bought a terraced house with a local authority mortgage . |
| 21 | A woman has begun a lone traffic patrol in her village after her best friend was killed and her son badly injured . |
| 22 | J. David Jackson , a young Canadian theoretical physicist working at Princeton New Jersey , read about this discovery in his New York Times ( plus ca change ! ) and within a month had made a pioneering and thorough evaluation of muon catalysed fusion , including studies of the ‘ sticking probability ’ — namely the chance that the muon sticks to the emitted fusion fragments rather than being released to catalyse more fusion . |
| 23 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 24 | A man has lodged a formal complaint and is demanding compensation from the police for breaking into his flat and confiscating his furniture . |
| 25 | It is important to remember that it is often not possible to say with certainty whether a speaker has pronounced a syllabic consonant , a non-syllabic consonant or a non-syllabic consonant plus . |
| 26 | A sub-committee had conducted a strict review of the conduct of all four members of the staff and that of the porter . |
| 27 | A hospital has opened a new soft play centre to help children with behavioural problems and adults with physical and learning difficulties . |
| 28 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 29 | A school has had a restricted spending function when it came to utilising the limited amount of money available to buy books and equipment under its capitation allowance . |
| 30 | ( ii ) the death of a member has left a recognised body with no member able to exercise voting rights in respect of at least one share in the body provided ( a ) that within three months of the death the recognised body has at least one member able to exercise such voting rights , and ( b ) that until proviso ( a ) has been fulfilled either at least one share in the body is beneficially owned by a solicitor or a recognised body or the only personal representative in respect of at least one share in the body is a solicitor or a recognised body . |