Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Kinnock has received a rousing reception to his keynote speech to delegates at Blackpool . |
| 2 | The public outcry against young offenders has given a bumpy ride to the seven-month-old Criminal Justice Act . |
| 3 | The long-wave , world-systems and regulationist theories are broad frameworks to which several writers have contributed and each has given a new twist to the framework they use . |
| 4 | ‘ The Tip ’ has given a new meaning to the weekend . |
| 5 | Continued economic restraint has given a new urgency to demands to improve the efficiency of management in the public sector . |
| 6 | More recently the vast programme of legislation for the completion of the single market has given a new urgency to the matter . |
| 7 | The advent of microelectronics has given a tremendous boost to Man 's capacity to acquire , process , store and disseminate textual , numeric and other forms of information . |
| 8 | increase in fixed assets — has given a tremendous boost to the economy and pride of the north-west . |
| 9 | Currently the Labour Party in Scotland is committed to no nuclear weapons on our soil , but shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown has given a firm commitment to Rosyth Dockyard for the refitting of Trident submarines . |
| 10 | Mr Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington , has given a guarded welcome to the idea of a shopmobility scheme : ‘ The search for that sort of solution gets my support . |
| 11 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 12 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 13 | The decision was , I do not doubt , a thoroughly beneficial decision which has given a sensible ambit to powers which Parliament had conferred in a way which good sense would suggest had left them far too restricted . |
| 14 | In addition — and I will begin with this point — linguistics has given a special status to the kind of binary opposition masculine/feminine exemplifies , and of which deconstructionists , including feminists , have been critical . |
| 15 | The Further Education Unit , a curriculum review and development unit established in 1977 to make possible a more co-ordinated and cohesive approach to curriculum development in further education , has given a commendable priority to special educational needs . |
| 16 | The first is where the Act is silent or ambiguous on any given point and the second is where the court in a decided case has given a particular interpretation to a section of the Act ( or to the same section in the original Act of 1893 ) . |
| 17 | FOYLE Meats has given a big boost to the National Sheep Association , which holds its multi-breed ram sale at Antrim on September 21 . |
| 18 | No one has given a satisfactory answer to that . |
| 19 | Capital spending is rigorously controlled , and in general this has permitted a cautious approach to the adoption and dissemination of new expensive technologies ( Stocking 1988 ) . |
| 20 | NATIONAL Express has enjoyed a one-way ticket to profitability , the coach operator revealed today in its first results since it floated on the stock market . |
| 21 | The obsession for vintage denim , both genuine and reproduction , has added a new twist to the syndrome and depleted bank balances up and down the island . |
| 22 | The Easter Festival has added a new dimension to Salzburg 's musical life ; though there are those who argue that Karajan changed the Summer Festival : both its audience and its artistic ideals . |
| 23 | This determination has added a new dimension to the play of a man who says he is ‘ getting more pleasure out of humiliating a guy ’ and likes to ‘ crush his ego ’ . |
| 24 | Intravenous contrast medium ( Gadalinium DTPA — Gd DTPA , Schering Health Care Ltd ) , has added a new dimension to MRI , particularly in the central nervous system . |
| 25 | The Spires and Shires tour company has added a new landmark to its sightseeing tour of Oxford . |
| 26 | Borden has added a new grade to its range of bottle labelling adhesives . |
| 27 | SIR — Filling the hollow core of carbon nanoclusters with foreign material has added a new aspect to the promise of this family of novel materials . |
| 28 | SINGER Rolf Harris has added a new touch to the Led Zeppelin song Stairway to Heaven — a wobble board and an ‘ altogether now ’ chorus . |
| 29 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has recommended a new scheme to the government for setting future targets for a cleaner water environment . |
| 30 | OUT OF the ruins of super-SARA , the EEC 's science commissioner Etienne Davignon has won a major reform to decision-making for the EEC 's Joint Research Centre . |