Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resultant design has leaned towards a course more heavily weighted towards interviewing skills . |
| 2 | Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent . |
| 3 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 4 | Something no-one has done in a balloon before . |
| 5 | The European Community [ EC ] has embarked on a path inexorably leading to the eventual replacement of member countries ' currencies with a single European currency . |
| 6 | Indeed the pace of expansion has slowed to a crawl everywhere , even though much of that expansion in the past has been financed by franchising . |
| 7 | Composed variously of opus sectile ( marbles in a variety of geometric shapes ) , opus alexendrinum ( large slabs of precious oriental marbles ) and opus tessellatum ( pictorial designs made from tesserae , like mosaic ) , over the centuries the pavement has buckled into a surface far from level and has suffered from atmospheric pollution as well as wear and tear of daily use . |
| 8 | In a machine operating at 6000 stitches per minute , the needle thread has to accelerate to a speed close to 100 mph ( 160kph ) , stop , and accelerate backwards to the same speed , and all at a cycle rate of up to 100 times per second ! |
| 9 | Another delightful , old form in which the calyx has mutated into a flower so that one flower sits inside another . |
| 10 | I 've told Pepe to put a notice up that Miguelito has gone for a holiday abroad . ’ |
| 11 | The Italian influence on British cooking has resulted in a shift away from traditional classical sauces and stocks towards an emphasis on ‘ something exquisitely fresh , with the least amount of modification in the process of preparation ’ , to quote from an old Tuscan cookery book . |
| 12 | A country once dependent on agriculture , as not only a means of income but a way of life , has evolved into a society almost totally structured around urban industry . |
| 13 | Nothing in the metal 's fundamentals has changed since a month ago , when the price languished at a seven-year low of $126 an ounce . |
| 14 | I did say that their attitude has changed from a generation ago and I think they are doing more at home than men did a generation ago . |
| 15 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 16 | A woman has saved a baby 's life using resuscitation techniques she 'd learned on a course just two weeks earlier . |
| 17 | She 'd worked as a prostitute long enough to know she 'd survive , but she did n't fancy six cocks one after the other without respite . |
| 18 | Yet during their tenure of office both have had to deal with a Russia now run by an apparently liberally minded head of government who has come to the conference table willing to reduce arms at a rate that the West sometimes finds embarrassing . |
| 19 | I do n't honestly know , he said er , he 's got to go in for his test , he said , and then I 'll have to see about a car so I do n't know whether they 're gon na buy him one or not |
| 20 | ‘ He tells me he may have to go into a rest home . |
| 21 | Now he faces the prospect of having to go to a school more than a hundred miles from his home . |
| 22 | He moved up to the counter with the air of a man who does n't like having to go through a routine once again but is prepared to do so , all right then here 's my card if you insist ! |
| 23 | It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon . |
| 24 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 25 | It is unlikely the DUP would have agreed to a meeting anyway , as the American delegation is in favour of sending a peace envoy to the province , but a boycott by the Ulster Unionists would be a major blow . |
| 26 | He found that in the neutral condition , where no particular inference was confirmed or disconfirmed by subsequent information , all potential inferences were falsely identified as having occurred in a passage about 25 per cent of the time . |
| 27 | I 'd have banked for a draw actually |
| 28 | Robert Dunlop said : ‘ When I came today I would have settled for a lot less . |
| 29 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 30 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |