Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the Festival 's six major themes is that of ‘ Recreation and Sport ’ and the Scottish Sports Council through Actionsport Scotland has undertaken to organise a daily programme of sports activities . |
| 2 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 3 | For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve . |
| 4 | Shortly thereafter , KPMG will notify the party its client has selected to negotiate an executed purchase agreement . |
| 5 | For over five years , news from CCG has come under the banner What 's Cooking ? , but as the company has grown to include a wide range of other services as well as catering , we felt that title was no longer appropriate . |
| 6 | From a family firm with some 2,000 employees in 1966 , the group has grown to become a public company comprising nine factories employing around 6,000 people at home and overseas . |
| 7 | She has applied to do a nursing degree . |
| 8 | JETTAIR , the Liverpool company aiming to reestablish air links between the city and London , has applied to operate an extra route to Gatwick . |
| 9 | THE GOVERNMENT has moved to defuse a growing row over its plan to introduce foreign language teaching for all Scottish primary pupils . |
| 10 | Anyone who has struggled to remove a rear tractor tyre or large trailer tyre will be pleased to see a new American innovation which eases the task . |
| 11 | Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown has threatened to sue an American television network over reports that , while Governor of California , he threw parties where marijuana and cocaine where used . |
| 12 | Standing on the step was Father James Morrow , the Roman Catholic priest and pro-life activist who has threatened to bring a private prosecution for murder against the anguished couple if their son is allowed to die . |
| 13 | A priest has threatened to launch a private prosecution against the doctor who treated the Hillsborough coma victim , Tony Bland , who died after his life-support machine was legally switched-off . |
| 14 | Mr Töpfer has threatened to apply a similar scheme to car manufacturers and to the makers of electronic goods , such as computers and television sets . |
| 15 | Greenpeace has threatened to seek a judicial review if a full public inquiry into the need for the plant is not held . |
| 16 | * The Ukrainian government has decided to hold an international contest to work out a method of converting the fourth reactor at Chernobyl into an environmentally safe system . |
| 17 | Our church has decided to erect a new building so that worship may continue on the present site . |
| 18 | The Council has decided to close an elderly person 's home . |
| 19 | AR-WACC has decided to establish a computerised communication data bank for the Region . |
| 20 | A spokesman said : ‘ She had a very busy weekend and has decided to have an easy day today . ’ |
| 21 | A spokesman said : ‘ She had a very busy weekend and has decided to have an easy day today . ’ |
| 22 | The Greek government has decided to build a massive complex of dams to divert the Akheloos River , endangering protected wetland areas which host thousands of wading birds including several endangered species . |
| 23 | He , too , has decided to keep a public silence . |
| 24 | He has sought to make a political attack on me , and I shall reply in the same way because the right hon. Gentleman has been highly selective in his summary of the case . |
| 25 | Faced with this ambiguity , the Bank has sought to make a clear distinction between its money-market operations ( for purposes of monetary policy ) and its bond-market operations ( for purposes of meeting the government 's borrowing requirement ) . |
| 26 | Whether in its truest sense — the sale of state-owned assets — or the conversion of ownership from an institution 's members to a new breed of shareholders , privatisation has made profiteering a respectable way of life . |
| 27 | It has helped to create a new generation of seriously wealthy individuals and the establishment of a tax system geared to entrepreneurs . |
| 28 | WACC has helped to convene an unprecedented meeting of 11 international Christian communication organisations in Geneva , Switzerland , 11–12 December . |
| 29 | In his only digression from prepared remarks , Francisco Rodriguez said : ‘ The government today has had to control a new attempt at subversion frustrated by the will of our people and of our armed forces to wage struggle . ’ |
| 30 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |