Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 2 | The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does . |
| 3 | Since the middle of the nineteenth century this has produced a persistent surplus of population in the countryside with a consequent depression of wage levels-Rural depopulation has rarely proceeded on a scale to compensate for the reduced demand for labour in rural areas and neither has the demand for labour in the countryside been adequately stimulated by the provision of sufficient alternative employment opportunities to agriculture . |
| 4 | First seen alongside Neneh Cherry , singing and standing on her head with the early-Eighties cult dance band Rip Rig And Panic , Andrea Oliver has since sung with a variety of outfits and , in between organising and cooking for a weekly night at West London 's Globe club , has recently joined forces with Malcolm Joseph ( previously with soul band Seventh Heaven ) to form new band , Her . |
| 5 | Robert Southam spent school holidays with the National Youth Theatre , read modern languages at Oxford and has since worked as an actor at some of England 's leading provincial theatres ( Manchester , Sheffield , Guildford etc. ) , in London , with Grotowski 's company in Venice and for BBC Radio . |
| 6 | Under Article 86 , the Commission has successfully dealt with a number of abuses such as the granting of loyalty rebates ( e.g. Hoffman-la Roche ) , refusals to supply ( e.g. commercial solvents ) , and price discrimination ( Chiquita ) among others . |
| 7 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 8 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 9 | Britain has only agreed to a package of £65 billion a year . |
| 10 | Since this study was published , the number of families coming into these categories has greatly increased as a result of deteriorating economic conditions and changing social circumstances . |
| 11 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 12 | YVONNE MURRAY has suddenly emerged as a contender for a trip to the world indoor championships in Toronto next month . |
| 13 | This has largely led to a reduction in overall-activity , but the control of mosquitoes by means of insecticide retains its prominence . |
| 14 | The latest security report says installing cameras has finally led to a fall in car theft , but overall hospital crime rose 12.5% last year . |
| 15 | A brilliant student 's seven-year battle for compensation after being crippled for life , has finally come to an end with a record award of £1.2 million . |
| 16 | The waif-like screen star , who in recent years has devoted her energies to helping the world 's starving children , has just pleaded for a week of peace in Bosnia to enable food to get through to the children there . |
| 17 | As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo . |
| 18 | TEENAGE striker Stephen Perkins has just returned from a week 's trial at Stoke City and the Potters have expressed great interest . |
| 19 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
| 20 | That should guarantee Annadale maximum points in the 1,500 metres , as Lough , who has just returned from a training stint with the GB squad in New Mexico , clocked 3.40.2 … a personal best … at Loughborough on Wednesday night . |
| 21 | A group of ornithologists has just returned from an expedition to an arid area in Mexico in which you are keenly interested . |
| 22 | The secretary , who also organizes the church flower rota , has just resigned in a huff , because she says the Sunday school has taken over some shelves in the vestry flower-vase cupboard without asking , so I have to take the minutes . ’ |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Edinburgh , South ( Mr. Griffiths ) has just spoken in a debate on a United Kingdom Bill and is entirely entitled to do so . |
| 24 | It is true that this is likely to happen when a whole class has just embarked on a subject and may be thought ready to take Grade 1 all together . |
| 25 | New Canaan , Connecticut , March 1 to April 14 , has just sunk like a stone , disappeared without trace ! ’ |
| 26 | This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year . |
| 27 | He has already asked for a return match and when I have had a rest I shall try to accommodate him . ’ |
| 28 | The family has already asked for an investigation into her death by officials at Winterton psychiatric hospital , Sedgefield , from which she was discharged for weekend leave a day before she died on Sunday . |
| 29 | He has already hinted at a price of around $375m . |
| 30 | Both can be seen as genuine attempts at making something out of nothing , attempts at getting something even if it 's only a laugh out of a life which , in many cases , by 16 has already run into a collection of brick walls labelled ‘ unemployment ’ , ‘ shit jobs ’ and ‘ routine brushes with the Law ’ . |