Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years .
2 The problem is that the company has only limited ISDN capacity at the moment because of the way that it is implemented at telephone exchanges .
3 It has just invited audience sponsorship for this season 's revival of the Shostakovich opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk .
4 Hi-Tec has just received BABT approval for its EC-2400 modem quad modem , which also offers V22bis and MNP up to Class 5 .
5 This is the net dividend yield because the firm has already paid corporation tax on its earnings .
6 By being clearly against an unpopular figure , Mrs Thatcher has usually rallied public opinion to her side .
7 ‘ Recommodification ’ or privatisation in many fields of collective consumption ( such as , for example , public sector housing provision ) has clearly proved state intervention to be not ‘ necessary ’ for successful capital accumulation .
8 ( Xu has willingly dropped monosodium glutamate after learning of its decreasing popularity here , admitting that it occasionally ‘ covered a multitude of sins ’ . )
9 The car has thermostatically controlled gas heating for wintertime use in the push-pull set .
10 As a result , RX has now achieved productivity parity with its Far Eastern competitors .
11 The District Council has now commenced survey work for the local plan and is seeking information which would assist in the preparation of the district wide local plan .
12 In the first case aid has frequently freed government revenue for purposes very different to those the donors would support ( a new presidential palace , a larger army , a new capital city ) ; in the second case corruption has affected the allocation of contracts in ways which damage project execution .
13 Edinburgh has yet to achieve parity core-funding with the younger London Film Festival .
14 Dudley Eustace , formerly finance director of British Aerospace , has recently become finance director of Philips .
15 Mr Shepherd , of Fawcett near Richmond , bought the bright red Plymouth Transport bus in 1989 and has recently completed restoration work on it .
16 Tiny Lithuania — under 3 million people — has certainly arrived centre stage in world affairs in recent months .
17 Despite being Britain 's only world champion at three different weights and a highly respected professional , McKenzie has never approached star status in the eyes of the fight public or television paymasters .
18 One teenage tenant who was a chronic asthmatic and attended hospital three times a week , has never needed hospital treatment for her asthma since moving back into her Heatfest home .
19 The Italian doctor who claims to have successfully given fertility treatment to a 58-year-old English woman has cancelled a trip to London because he received a death threat .
20 We 've all read newspaper report of faulty hire equipment which has n't been properly checked or maintained ; a bad outlet could happily send you away with a potential deathtrap .
21 Ceauşescu had naturally received expert advice on the process of relocating buildings in this way , and therefore must have known the consequences .
22 She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ?
23 When SAVE heard Sir Horace Jones ' Victorian market was to close and the traders move to new premises in Docklands , we immediately contacted Richard Rogers , who had just received planning permission for the new Lloyd 's building , to ask if he would work on a refurbishment scheme .
24 Gaselee had always regarded Party Politics as a Grand National type and decided early in the season to set the gelding , who stands more than 18 hands , for steeplechasing 's biggest prize .
25 But even nostalgia can misremember ; I do n't think they 've ever served cabinet pudding in the Cabinet Office .
26 As sweetners to gain planning permission they 've also proposed part funding for a sailing centre and to pay forimprovements to the area around the lake .
27 Besides the crash damage , the thieves had also smeared tomato sauce over the front seats and dashboard .
28 The men were volunteers who had undergone a long and thorough training , and most had also had battle experience in South Africa , India and Egypt .
29 She had nearly had heart failure at the thought of Garry going up there .
30 The issue now was seen not just in terms of provision of new housing or the simple eradication of the slums as a technical exercise ; housing likes and dislikes had now to inform town planning of preferences in provision .
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