Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A ROW has broken out over an exhibition of photography by lesbians .
2 The AEF has come up with an idea for such a framework : its design would be based on sound data , put together by world experts ( with advice from those with local experience ) , and monitored by representatives of ( inter alia ) aviation , government and environmental interests .
3 ‘ I would say that nobody who has criticised the proposal to sell has come up with an alternative as to how these things are going to be funded , ’ Dr Macmillan said .
4 When the marsh has built up to an elevation such that it is covered only by the highest tides , it is usually reclaimed for pasture by building a simple embankment around it .
5 Other than the exemptions described above , tax has to be paid on any capital gain that has built up on an asset you give away during your lifetime .
6 It is significant that Phil Weston , with his imposing England Under-19 cv , has turned up as an opener alongside Curtis .
7 The availability of subsidies for care , whether through insurance companies or state schemes has acted both as an obstacle to change and as a change facilitator .
8 People are excluded from seeing death by the fact that death has become more like an illness that must receive medical attention , rather than the last event in a person 's life that they should be left in peace to deal with in whichever way they choose .
9 The street was full of goldsmiths and silversmiths and their assistants and apprentices at the time : Messrs. Cook , Ive , Sarl , Hyams and others all appear in the commercial directories for that year , along with the tobacconists , Fribourg and Treyer , whose shop in Haymarket has persisted almost as an anachronism into the 1980s .
10 Mr Mellor has pulled out of an engagement to open the Classical Music Show at London 's Barbican tomorrow .
11 Violence has erupted again on an estate which has been plagued by joyriders .
12 Nottinghamshire SSD has reacted angrily to an Appeal Court judgement which it says will result in far more children being taken into care throughout the country .
13 The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work
14 For an RFL who has practised mainly from an office or offices in England and Wales as principal of an MNP which has held or received client 's money in the period to , the fee is £600 .
15 For an RFL who has practised mainly from an office or offices overseas as principal of an MNP which has held or received client 's money in the period to , the fee is £150 .
16 RFL who has practised mainly from an office or offices in England and Wales
17 RFL who has practised mainly from an office or offices outside England and Wales
18 SHELL has lost out on an oil bonanza worth at least £1 billion through a decision to cut its stake in exploration territory west of Shetland .
19 It is a paradox too , that because Christianity has been able to drop any mention of the physical cycles of women 's lives , secular culture has ended up with an idea that true liberation means we can forget ‘ those difficult days ’ , and ‘ carry on as normal ’ ; assuming , perhaps , that to be normal is to be more like a man .
20 WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION
21 She ran her tongue nervously over her lips , tasting the honey-coral lipgloss she 'd applied carefully in an effort to banish her image as the ingenuous young art student , fresh from college .
22 Having moved away from an era of commodity support to one offering reward for environmental investment agriculture has largely shed the old ‘ featherbed ’ image .
23 Having moved away from an era of commodity support to one offering reward for environmental investment agriculture has largely shed the old ‘ featherbed ’ image .
24 She would have hurried on after an exchange of greetings and comments on the splendour of the morning but he moved forward to take a snip at a dandelion growing on the grass verge and contrived to block her path .
25 How could you have finished up with an answer like sixteen it 's a bit like integration this where we 're working backwards .
26 " If he went in at Hew at midnight , he would n't have started downstream for an hour or so . "
27 Despite having worked previously as an ethnographer , Bourdieu makes no attempt to employ the ethnographic method in this work , relying instead on a lengthy questionnaire reproduced at the end of the book .
28 You 'd probably have ended up in an asylum . ’
29 She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage .
30 Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious .
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