Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NORMAN Riddell , the chief executive of Capital House , the fund management arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has resigned to take up a similar position at Invesco-MIM . |
| 2 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 3 | The Lord Chancellor originally intended that lenders should be self-regulating , but since publishing the white paper he has decided to set up a new Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners ' Board , with consumer representatives , to police lenders offering conveyancing services . |
| 4 | The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests . |
| 5 | The Dutch government has helped to set up a national halons " bank " to ensure the most effective use of the chemicals . |
| 6 | At Guy 's Hospital the poisons unit has had to set up a psychiatric liaison service to help such patients . |
| 7 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |
| 8 | Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days . |
| 9 | The Department of the Environment has agreed to set up a second air pollution monitoring station at Longlands College , Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | Already the opposition has united to set up a working group on immigration , with a view to formulating a new bill . |
| 11 | Scottish Roman Catholic priest James Morrow has pledged to take out a private prosecution for murder against the doctors . |
| 12 | Further research has failed to turn up a single firm IBM Corp mainframe deal for this quarter anywhere across Europe , and the disk business is not going to save any IBM bacon either : word in leasing circles is that users are so averse to buying new disks that prices of used 3380Ks have risen by some 25% . |
| 13 | An inquest has failed to establish how a twenty six year old barman came to be found dead in his flat . |
| 14 | The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I , one of Britain 's largest engineering firms . |
| 15 | According to Milan Ramljak , President of the five-man Croatian Commission and lecturer in law at Zagreb University , in spite of the war and the absence of any help from the Federal Commission , Croatia has managed to collect together a large file of evidence , including soil sample analyses which may be significant when they can be compared with analyses of the treasure and the cauldron in which it was found . |
| 16 | One of the region 's independent breweries has managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid — at least for the time being . |
| 17 | I 'd expected to last only a few minutes before my first ducking but the gentle wind was perfect for getting used to the moves . |
| 18 | He 'd helped set up a new research wing , which was due to be officially opened in a fortnight 's time . |
| 19 | I 'd helped to start up a mixed-sex Lancaster Gay Switchboard and learned a lot from radical faggots . |
| 20 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 21 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 22 | Had the Inland Revenue won , it would have affected so many employees — tax practitioners claim hundreds of thousands — that the Revenue would have had to set up a special unit just to cope with the paperwork . |
| 23 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 24 | After April 1988 , company schemes will have to begin building up a small widower 's pension for contracted out membership from that date onwards . |
| 25 | After capturing the town of Kupres on Sunday , Croat forces were reported yesterday to have begun moving along a strategic road towards the town of Bugojno , which has a sizeable population of Serbs . |
| 26 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor had intended to lay down a rigid limitation on the exercise of the court 's discretion . |
| 27 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 28 | The session was short , the smile fading from the face of the accused as Mrs Balanchine described in detail how the car had come storming around a blind corner and swung in close to the wall where they were waiting to cross . |
| 29 | Successive government reports since the late 1930s had recommended setting up a national film bank , but it was only in the wake of the 1948 production crisis that the government seriously contemplated making funds available to the industry . |
| 30 | As getting tiny clothes was a problem for us I 've decided to put together a pre-term pack to loan out to NCT members who find themselves in need of them . |