Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Where Parliament has designated a public officer as decision-maker for a particular class of decisions the High Court , acting as a reviewing court under Order 53 , is not a court of appeal . |
2 | He has completed a second marathon as editor-in-chief of a companion volume , the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening , out this week , which is a guide to designing and a garden and growing flowering plants , fruit , and veg . |
3 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
4 | It is difficult to actually say that it has formed a satisfactory basis because in in effect , the amount of land that has come forward in the city has been below the the figure that was allocated in the original structure plan . |
5 | But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company . |
6 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
7 | Even if men 's fashion has come a long way since the Sixties , the overwhelming inspiration , Cerruti concedes , is still the archetypal English businessman 's suit . |
8 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
9 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
10 | Packaging technology has come a long way since the founder opened his first shop in 1869 , and the requirements of today 's customer are very different from those of the Victorian housewife . |
11 | For 10 years , the star has enjoyed a high profile as Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses and as Pa Larkin in The Darling Buds of May . |
12 | ‘ The state oil company , PDVSA , has done a tremendous job since nationalisation and is now ranked among the largest and best in the world , ’ he says . |
13 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
14 | Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted . |
15 | ‘ The kid has made a dramatic improvement though , with a little help from Martin Hodge . |
16 | Hanning has produced a smoother result than repeated medians alone . |
17 | The Department of Employment research programme has produced a rosier picture than local studies or the experience of local homeworking campaigns . |
18 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
19 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
20 | Thought will have to be given now to players discouraged previously , including Ramprakash , who has had a raw deal while Hick has been favoured , and the hapless Fairbrother , for whom critics always seek reasons for non-selection . |
21 | Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around . |
22 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
23 | It seemed that Smith has got a better image than the present chancellor has n't he ? |
24 | Some six hundred hectares of that land is actually designated as greenbelt , but in addition within that a number of those areas are er prevented from development in perpetuity we 'd argue because a large part of that area has got a historic status as stray land , which is a form of common land , which means it 's actually not not available for any form of development , similarly the flood planes of the river Ouse in particular is for physical development reasons er prevented from development in many areas , and those of you who were here this weekend will have no noticed the reason why , it was a flooding that took that took place on the Ouse valley , in addition to those constraints , open space within the city is at a premium erm the city falls below the Emperface standard , erm by er something like erm half a hectare per thousand population , so compared with the Emperface standard of two point four per thousand , the city reaches a quite a generous erm categorization of the recreational space we have available , only a total of two hectares per thousand , therefore , and this is very relevant to the Greater York debate , erm , really the only land for development within the city is recycled land , there are limited number of er sites which have not been developed in recent years erm which can be identified for development , and are being identified for development in our draft local plan . |
25 | So that is a community place for us as well and that is the only place we can , where we can learn about religion other place because this is a foreign country wi who has got a different religion than we are and there is no other institution will , which will ever mention any of the reading apart from which is So it has played a very important part . |
26 | It seems to even out in the long run , although sometimes one has to give a wry smile when a customer dithers over one of ‘ hers ’ and one of ‘ mine ’ — then chooses ‘ hers ’ . |
27 | The USA has become a powerful nation because it was founded on strong principles . |
28 | Since the balance of payments has become a structural problem because of the prolonged period of under-investment , imports have grown as a share of UK domestic spending , making the growth of inflation resulting from devaluation more rapid . |
29 | Unlike the days of old when typography and design were learned over generations , desktop publishing has provided a fast track where we can take ideas and try them out to see if they work . |
30 | political democracy , urbanization , and education have brought the different sections of the population into more frequent contact with each other and have created even greater mutual awareness , the central value system has found a wider acceptance than in other periods of the history of society . ’ |