Example sentences of "have [verb] the [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself . |
| 2 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
| 3 | His support for the idea of sending a US special envoy to Northern Ireland has attracted the most attention during his three-day visit , which ends today . |
| 4 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point will depend on the circumstances of each case , but if the accused has done the same act on a number of occasions , if he admits he did it intentionally or if he draws attention to himself etc. then unlawful and wilful conduct may be proved . |
| 5 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 6 | It can be seen that the committee continues to recognise the difference between obtaining possession by a trick ( that is , ‘ by deception ’ in its new wide sense ) and obtaining ownership by false pretences ( again , ‘ by deception ’ ) but the committee intended , and it seems that Parliament has adopted the same approach in section 15 , that , for the purpose of finding the accused guilty , it would cease to matter whether the victim was deceived into transferring ownership or into handing over possession . |
| 7 | Fame has made the former rebel into a smug , uncommitted and corrupt member of the musical establishment . |
| 8 | ‘ And she has made the same promise to me that I made to my mum and dad . ’ |
| 9 | ) Excluding Gibson and Fender , which guitar company do you feel has had the most impact on the guitar industry in the last decade , and why ? |
| 10 | In more recent times , Luciano Berio has used the same technique in his Sinfonia , Labirintus H , and electronic works , so that we seem to be hearing different music — symphonic , jazz , military , vocal , etc. — as if radios were tuned to different stations and the music merging , conflicting , and changing . |
| 11 | My second book , although it has used the same idea of telekinetic powers , has a completely different story line . |
| 12 | According to Shaun , ‘ Yes Please ’ has got the same production on it as ‘ hardcore , rock smokin' ragga music — it 's more leather than loops , harder than the artist ’ , which , to be fair , at the moment does n't account for much . |
| 13 | The shield is awarded annually to a local public house which has raised the most money for the Institution during the past year . |
| 14 | Scudamore has reached the half century in 12 fewer days than during last season 's fantastic voyage into jumping history . |
| 15 | In a more modern and subtle way , Singer has proposed the same extension of a recognition of interest to animals so that sentient animals share a community of interests with humans . |
| 16 | Mr Alan Hogan , aged 28 , has spent the same number of years with Tioxide . |
| 17 | An Australian novelist , David Malouf , has tapped the same source of fathomless fear in ‘ Remembering Babylon ’ * . |
| 18 | Now Sir Colin has to spread the same degree of charm throughout BA 's expanding empire . |
| 19 | The villain who was the occasion of my ruin and disgrace , and has imparted the self-same treatment on many others of my sex , is considered by the world as a man of unspotted honour . |
| 20 | The LFS has asked the same question about temporary working only since I 9836 and the latest survey results available are those from 1986 . |
| 21 | A family which has run the same pub for two hundred and fifty years is holding a week of celebrations … |
| 22 | More recently in Cinnamond v. British Airports Authority his Lordship has invoked the same type of reasoning , stating that operators of cabs at an airport had no legitimate expectation which would warrant granting them a hearing . |
| 23 | His friend David Lodge has explored the same theme in farcical vein in Changing Places ( 1975 ) , Small World ( 1984 ) and Nice Work ( 1988 ) , where farce is sophisticated by literary allusion and softened by the hint that humane values , however easily forgotten in the contest of fashion and the struggle for careers , may yet be of intrinsic worth . |
| 24 | You 'd adopted the same philosophy of pricing that . |
| 25 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 26 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 27 | I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all . |
| 28 | He felt profoundly uneasy , for he 'd known the same sort of thing on several previous occasions : surviving relatives rabbiting on , as if so fearful of hearing the dreaded information . |
| 29 | These two men , and many between , have had to make the same type of decisions about the positions of their steel works . |
| 30 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |