Example sentences of "have [verb] an [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UCM , a software house from Hove , has developed an animated video showing the workings of the Difference Engine No 2 . |
| 2 | Nicholas Kenyon 's appointment as Controller of Radio 3 , in succession to John Drummond , means that the BBC has picked an unlikely man to try to turn around the fortunes of its embattled network . |
| 3 | The 24-times capped Herioter has noticed an alarming trend developing in the way a match which will carried the added prize of the Calcutta Cup is portrayed . |
| 4 | KENNY DALGLISH has made an astonishing attempt to bring Queens Park Rangers duo Les Ferdinand and Andy Sinton to Blackburn Rovers . |
| 5 | Brown has made an interesting attempt to approach the situation from a more scientific basis . |
| 6 | This amplification , orchestrated by Giuseppe Pavanello and Giandomenico Romanelli , has produced an extraordinary opportunity to see Canova 's work as a sculptor in the round . |
| 7 | Britain has had an unrivalled opportunity to do this in the post-war new towns , where the circumstances permitted experimentation with all manner of innovative layouts . |
| 8 | He has had an inconsistent side to handle for much of the summer . |
| 9 | Over the years The Trades House has had an important role to play in promoting trade and industry in the city . |
| 10 | In an unprecedented move , the World Bank has commissioned an independent investigator to review its controversial Narmada Dam Project in the Indian state of Gujarat . |
| 11 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 12 | Two decades later the gallery has become an international institution recognised throughout the photographic communities of the world . |
| 13 | ‘ The research … will contribute to overcoming the effects of sweet potato weevil which has become an insurmountable problem to control with conventional approaches , ’ says the company . |
| 14 | Ever since she brandished a pair of handcuffs during a debate on law and order at the Conservative Party conference in 1981 , Mrs Currie has demonstrated an irrepressible ability to draw attention to herself . |
| 15 | Graseby Plc has proposed an initial public offering to list the common stock of its wholly-owned environmental products subsidiary , the Graseby Andersen Group , on the NASDAQ National Market System in the US . |
| 16 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc , which wants to separate its regulated and unregulated businesses , has set an initial stock offering for the wireless operations of its PacTel Corp subsidiary , which is to become a separate company by year-end ; the amount to be raised in the offering has yet to be determined , but it has already said it plans to up the capitalisation of the wireless operations by raising at least $750m through public or private sources . |
| 17 | Classification by audience age has proved an acceptable limitation to impose on a cinema audience , and may also warn of the type of experience on offer . |
| 18 | Worcestershire businessman Tony Mole has pledged an undisclosed sum to keep the wheels rolling for three years … |
| 19 | He has compiled an illustrated catalogue to accompany the exhibition ( £19.95 hardback , £12.95 paperback ) which is published in the spring . |
| 20 | Common Market Energy Commissioner , Antonio Carlosa Arquala has issued an angry statement saying the price escalation is unjustified and indefensible . |
| 21 | Does the hon. Gentleman believe that when he has created an independent Scottish state it will have a separate currency , or would he go for the ecu ? |
| 22 | Zimbabwe has begun an experimental scheme to track its remaining rhino by the use of transponders implanted in the animals ' skin . |
| 23 | The Dutch government has begun an ambitious plan to return large areas of farmland to their natural state as forest , wetlands and lakes . |
| 24 | These flies are usually quite secretive , living in herbage on or near the ground , and so the fungus has evolved an elaborate strategy to obtain the best wind dispersal of its spores . |
| 25 | Alan Hodgkinson , the father of Simon , has launched an unofficial fund to help Gary Rees , the Nottingham flanker , who faces a charge of grevious bodily harm after an incident against London Irish in January . |
| 26 | However , in the USA , the chemical fallout from industry and agriculture has prompted an environmental expert to warn of the many unseen air pollutants which are not covered by the Clean Air Act and are damaging not only to human health — linked to ills from leukaemia to heart disease — but are implicated in the formation of ‘ acid rain' which has devastated vast tracts of forest ( Begley , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ It was probably something he 'd heard an old actor say , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Hope fed her nosiness and kept her plodding beside Midnight , who 'd had an awkward job swinging the box on to his shoulder . |
| 29 | I 've also had to put an old cat to sleep , and some children from the new estate brought their hamster in . |
| 30 | In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons . |