Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption . |
| 2 | Since the return to civilian rule the corporation has claimed to adopt an attitude of impartiality towards the five parties . |
| 3 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |
| 4 | It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy . |
| 5 | Sufficient to say I was deeply embarrassed , and the time has come to put an end to this absurdity . |
| 6 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 7 | In her catalogue introduction Alexandra Noble notes the extent to which installation art , using hybrid forms , has come to represent a challenge to the modernist emphasis on the purity of the particular medium . |
| 8 | Since he walked out of the cabinet in 1986 , Michael Heseltine has come to occupy a role in British politics that has few precedents . |
| 9 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 10 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to the high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 11 | Glasgow University 's principal , Sir William Fraser , has already expressed concern at the Secretary of State 's decision and has written seeking an explanation of the ruling . |
| 12 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , the draft treaty that my right hon. and noble Friend Lord Carrington has prepared identifies a range of safeguards which should be extended to the ethnic minorities in Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | ICL Plc has applied to register a subsidiary in Slovenia , a formality that should be completed in the next few weeks , and despite renewed conflict in Croatia , the company says it is still ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Ace , Benny , ’ Petion called out as he entered , ‘ the Colonel has decided to take a force to the cemetery . |
| 15 | Paul Merton has decided to hold a party for some of his friends . |
| 16 | As part of its expanding programme of cultural tourism , the Val d'Oise region has decided to exploit a theme with immense popular appeal : Impressionism . |
| 17 | JAPAN has decided to remain a member of the International Whaling Commission to lobby against the creation of a whale sanctuary in the Antarctic , Farm Minister Masami Tanabu said last night . |
| 18 | I sha n't be coming to New York this spring as I 'd hoped because Monsieur Félix has decided to open a branch of the Maison de Verveine in London instead of New York ! |
| 19 | Ingmar Bergman , who for some years now has been insistent that Fanny and Alexander was his farewell to the moving image , has decided to stage a come-back with a project called The Good Will . |
| 20 | EMBATTLED British Coal chairman Neil Clarke has decided to become a man of the people . |
| 21 | Firstly , it has decided to adopt a system of home country supervision . |
| 22 | In the matter of its lawsuit against Berkeley Software Design Inc for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets , Unix System Laboratories Inc has decided to file a petition for reconsideration with Judge Dickinson Debevoise before it goes over his head to the Circuit Court of Appeals . |
| 23 | In the matter of its lawsuit against Berkeley Software Design Inc for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets , Unix System Labs has decided to file a petition for reconsideration with Judge Dickinson Debevoise before it goes over his head to the Circuit Court of Appeals ( UX No 427 ) . |
| 24 | Rarely do I see a parent who has decided to buy a book as a present . |
| 25 | Erm for example if you hear , an and defence matters as well , if we hear for example that Saudi Arabia has decided to buy a series of British tanks , that is a foreign policy decision whether or not to allow those tanks erm to be sold to Saudi Arabia and we know from the Iraq arms business the way in which erm it is a de a conscious decision of government whether or not to do these things . |
| 26 | Digging into its collection of old photographs , mounted in the 5000 albums which constitute the Maciet archive , it has decided to elevate a selection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century topographical photographs to the level of art and exhibit them as ‘ Le Passé recomposé ’ . |
| 27 | ( 161 ) Ford has decided to make a change in marketing approach this year . |
| 28 | The legislature has sought to steer a course between these conflicting considerations by building public order elements into the definitions of the offences in the requirement that the conduct be threatening , abusive or insulting , and in the requirement that ‘ hatred ’ should be an intended or likely outcome of the expression impugned . |
| 29 | The Dalai Lama has sought to secure an agreement with the Chinese Government for the future autonomy of Tibet , which effectively exists at present in name only . |
| 30 | In such cases the law has sought to strike a compromise between the competing principles that ownership of property must be protected and that speedy commerce in goods should be facilitated . |