Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ .
2 It was published in America in 1974 , translated by Peter Kussi , who has revised his translation for the new edition of 1986 which I am discussing here .
3 As Stalin scornfully put it , ‘ the bourgeoisie of Finland … by a strange confluence of circumstances has received its independence from the hands of a socialist Russia ’ .
4 A soldier who risked his life to save children wounded in a mortar attack in Bosnia has received his MBE from the Queen .
5 Written eight years ago for Gidon Kremer and much revised since then , it has developed its shape from the pressure of the emotions within it and , in spite of the obvious parallel with Berg 's Violin Concerto , is fundamentally like no other .
6 Written eight years ago for Gidon Kremer and much revised since then , it has developed its shape from the pressure of the emotions within it and , in spite of the obvious parallel with Berg 's Violin Concerto , is fundamentally like no other .
7 He has developed his sport into an art and never stops fishing .
8 The music of Throwing Muses has inhabited my flesh like a cold flame these past six months .
9 Wang , the computer company , has stopped its sponsorship of the Leinster senior league competition in protest at the Irish RFU 's links with the South African Rugby Board 's centenary celebrations this summer .
10 If anything in the Amis corpus has validated his penchant for the poison dart , it was last year 's Memoirs : indiscreet , at times indefensible , but nevertheless a book to leave you giddy with laughter .
11 Experience of recession in the 1980s has redirected our attention to a longer-term temporal pattern in economic events , which was first applied to nineteenth century international change .
12 The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances .
13 CAGNEY and Lacey actress Sharon Gless , who is currently in London starring in Misery at the Criterion , has treated her colleagues at the theatre to her favourite Haagen-Dazs ice cream .
14 DataEase is one of those products that has hidden its light under the proverbial bushel .
15 Sony Corp has withdrawn its support of a joint venture desk-top publishing business company , Newscaster , which it formed with printing and publishing company Koei Group in 1988 .
16 He has withdrawn his chapters from an authorised English translation due later this year , and is about to spend a month in America mending fences .
17 Recently the NCC has diverted its interest from the Isles of Scilly , now under the auspices of the Isles of Scilly Environmental Trust , to Lindisfarne and surrounding area .
18 Hoylake claimed that : ‘ BAT 's urge to conglomerate has diverted its attention from the traditional core business , tobacco towards ill-conceived diversification ’ .
19 Or the power person may be a power broker who has arranged his support before the meeting and knows that he can call on it if his authority is challenged .
20 If the original depositor has assigned his interest to an assignee , so that the assignee has become entitled to look to the bank for repayment , achievement of the legislative purpose requires the assignee to be the person entitled to compensation .
21 . Oh no , as I was saying to Reed the other day , er Reed has joined our class by the way .
22 It is the first time the Service has explained its stand in the dispute , which led to serious disturbances among loyalist inmates in the Maze .
23 One is Delta Cephei , which has given its name to the whole class of short-period variables .
24 Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country .
25 The station has given its name to an anxiety state , defined by Cyril Connolly as angoisse des gares :
26 The pub trade has given its support to a campaign to stop people drinking too much .
27 The government has given its blessing to the £935m bid by Tomkins for Bisto to Mother 's Pride giant Ranks Hovis McDougall .
28 The ruling body of the International Tropical Timber Organisation ( ITTO ) has given its approval to the continued logging of key tropical forests in Malaysia and the Amazon .
29 Pat Nevin 's signing has given them balance with a two wingers system that is committed to attacking .
30 They go to Phoenix on Saturday to play a team which has given them trouble in the past .
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