Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj -er] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speculation as to the causes of queues has included a greater public awareness of the CAB , growing numbers in receipt of state benefits , unemployment and the availability of credit , the rising divorce rate , and a complex legislative programme that has affected clients detrimentally . |
| 2 | has added a further tri-axle tanker trailer to its fleet which will be used to carry bulk loads to the Manchester and Walsall areas . |
| 3 | On top of these , Frank has bought The Social Survival Handbook for October 1993 , by journalist Guy Browning , through Julian Alexander , and has done a further two-book deal ( following the last three-book contract ) for a ‘ healthy six-figure sum ’ with Lucinda Edmonds , author of Lovers and Players , through Arthur Goodhart . |
| 4 | While police in Strathclyde push on with their high-profile weapons amnesty , Operation Blade , the Lothian force has adopted a lower key approach in keeping with the scale of the problem . |
| 5 | The government has opened a further six air pollution monitoring stations , bringing the total to 16 . |
| 6 | Wimpy International has opened a further four restaurants at the Metro Centre , Gateshead ; Carbis Bay , Cornwall ; Shirley , Hampshire ; and Sudbury , Suffolk . |
| 7 | But the 77-year-old victim , who said she was pushed around by two youngsters aged about ten , has requested a younger blind person benefits from the dog . |
| 8 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 9 | ‘ He has proved a better confidential secretary than to give revealing answers , despite his weakness for the opposite sex — however beautiful , ’ Ven replied . |
| 10 | The UN Environment Programme has announced a further 74 winners of its " Global 500 " award , made annually since World Environment Day in 1987 . |
| 11 | This has yielded a further two contracts . |
| 12 | Reebok believes that it has taken a further innovative step by eliminating much of the superfluous components so that now , the tennis shoe will consist of an estimated 12 separate components . |
| 13 | The Institute has taken a further tentative step towards opening up its disciplinary hearings to the public , with a recommendation that the Professional Conduct Department should first experiment with fuller reporting of disciplinary cases . |
| 14 | If the quality of public services has achieved a higher political profile in general , it has reached a positively frantic pitch in health care . |
| 15 | AFTER three years ' study , analyst programmer Ray Marsh from the Barlaston computer department has achieved a Higher National Diploma qualification in computer studies . |
| 16 | However , insufficient height was available to install windows copying the attenuated shape of the original ‘ lancets ’ and the unquestioning reproduction of the arch form in the new windows would have produced a weaker visual result than the treatment which was adopted — the insertion of new tripartite lights capped by a simple square-headed profile ( Plates 18 and 19 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard . |
| 18 | They will have to pay a further political price for their insensitive treatment of Scotland . |
| 19 | Instead , having conducted a further searching examination , he set me to the cataloguing of the little rituals , those magical forms of thought that I myself had developed in order to cope with the stress of eidesis . |
| 20 | And I could n't have chosen a better three weeks to absent myself . |
| 21 | In the event , there was little snow and I could probably have chosen a lighter fabric-and-leather boot with a Goretex or Sympatex lining . |
| 22 | He 's won umpteen Grands Prix and if Dalgety could have managed a tighter mechanical edge last season the general consensus is that he would have been world champion . |
| 23 | By the Spring of 1992 the IHM expects to have added a further six helicopters to the collection , including a Kaman HH–43 Huskie and at least two Russian types , bringing the total fleet list to over sixty rotary winged aircraft . |
| 24 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme , the Daily Telegraph reports . |
| 25 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 26 | Diuretics seem to have had a better protective effect than β blockers . |
| 27 | The barometer had fallen a further ten points to 28.5 . |
| 28 | His successful bid was for £190,000 although he had made a higher prior offer which had been turned down . |
| 29 | But when the justice minister who had agreed to her release himself fell from favour , she was reimprisoned and had to serve a further ten months before being rereleased . |
| 30 | We 've got a wider lunatic fringe than other nations . |