Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women 's Design Service has received a small grant to carry out research into housing design for older women . |
| 2 | Uncle H has developed a fascinating heresy based on the idea that exactly what you did to other people while you were alive gets done right back to you once you 're dead . |
| 3 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 4 | Each member state has designated a particular body to take responsibility for the comparability work . |
| 5 | Campaigners against controversial plans for a second electricity sub station at Lackenby have the chance to state their views on April 16 when Langbaurgh Council has arranged a special planning meeting to discuss the issue . |
| 6 | When the Home Secretary announced the additional numbers for police forces throughout England and Wales , I was shocked to find that Gwent merited only one extra officer and was astounded to find that the South Wales police force was not to have a single extra officer , especially as the chief constable has undertaken a major review to ensure the best use of available manpower , a process which must continue . |
| 7 | A Pensioners Link initiative in Barnet ( Meade , 1986 ) has undertaken a local campaign to promote health activity for and with older people , with promising results . |
| 8 | He has joined a new group called The Popguns who have appeared several times in the independent charts . |
| 9 | If , on a sale of unregistered land , there is any personal obligation on the part of a seller-client to observe restrictions ( as , for example , where the seller is the original covenantor or has given a personal covenant to observe these ) , it is desirable to provide in the contract for a similar covenant indemnifying the seller against any future breach . |
| 10 | Szekeres ( 1972 ) has indicated how to integrate this equation using Riemann 's method , and has given a general solution expressed as a line integral involving a Legendre function of order -½ . |
| 11 | The issue in this case is whether an original lessee , or an intermediate assignee of a lease , who has given a direct covenant to pay the rent and observe the covenants , is released from liability following an agreement between the lessor and the occupying assignee of the lease under which the lessor takes a surrender of the lease and some of the assignee 's goods in return for releasing the assignee from all claims under the lease ? |
| 12 | Electronic cash till maker Riva Group of Bolton , Lancs , has completed a refinancing programme to reduce borrowings by £5.8m to £6.9m and save some £800,000 in annual interest payments , it announced yesterday . |
| 13 | The US car industry has formed a new alliance to challenge a bill which would compel car makers to increase fuel efficiency by 40 per cent over the next decade . |
| 14 | Mike Woodley , owner of the aviation film services and warbirds import/export operation Aces High at North Weald Airfield , has formed a new company to market the Ilyushin Il-103 light aircraft throughout Europe . |
| 15 | The National Council of Churches in Korea has formed a special committee to work on the ‘ democratisation of the Korean media ’ . |
| 16 | Fourteen year old Catherine Pearse has organised a sponsored sleep-out to help the increasing number of young people with nowhere to live . |
| 17 | Since then , it has enjoyed a much-needed facelift to become the hip and swinging indie ( generic overlay ) festival of the year . |
| 18 | The United Nations has installed a peacekeeping force to maintain order until the elections in May 1993 . |
| 19 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 20 | A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex . |
| 21 | A TORY MP 's wife has won a three-year battle to inherit the Pounds 10 million mansion that inspired Evelyn Waugh 's Brideshead Revisited . |
| 22 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
| 23 | A postal worker has won a two-and-a-half-year battle to bring his Filipino bride to England . |
| 24 | Scotland has won a bitter battle to house a new multi-million pound military centre creating 700 jobs , it was disclosed tonight . |
| 25 | Tony McTaminey has won a seven-month battle to set up a flower stall using a traditional , hand-painted barrow in the Linthorpe Road shopping precinct , Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | A Primary school has won a national competition to produce their own newspaper . |
| 27 | Amongst other new orders Sekers has secured a significant contract to supply the automotive industry with fabric for car interiors . |
| 28 | He has lodged a special defence naming another person in connection with three of the charges . |
| 29 | It is difficult for us today to enter fully into the power that those ancient rituals must have generated , but anyone who has attended a religious revival meeting with its emphasis on repentance , tears and rebirth is in touch with the same forces . |
| 30 | THIS election has seen a new phrase enter the common language : ‘ The fabled C2s ’ . |