Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my son has received none of the two hundred and eight |
| 2 | Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ . |
| 3 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 4 | However , it was a pity that Greg Lewin was interviewed by somebody only knowledgeable about corncrakes ; it would have been interesting to know whether Greg has done anything about the diabolical fingering needed on the ancient form of the racket . |
| 5 | I do nt think he has done anything for the national game . |
| 6 | Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid this dog affair has got everyone in a nasty mood , ’ Uncle Alfred explained . |
| 8 | Each of these three processes has contributed something to the changing broadcasting scene . |
| 9 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 10 | In recent years funding and management of the health service has become something of a political football . |
| 11 | The new giant tractor has brought a welcome boost in power to West End Farm 's farming and contracting businesses and has become something of a local landmark . |
| 12 | And excluding people from benefit has become something of a consuming passion within the cash-limited , pressurised Department of Social Insecurity . |
| 13 | Joey Kelly has become something of a racing machine for he was only beaten a short head at Enniskillen last Saturday , then won at Dromore on Wednesday before being turned out again yesterday . |
| 14 | Leaving aside the actor 's film plans , the restaurant has become something of an epic production in itself . |
| 15 | He and his son are largely responsible for the countless impressions of Rembrandt 's graphic works , repeatedly reworking the plates so that Rembrandt 's authorship of them has become something of an ethical dilemma . |
| 16 | But over the past few years fashion for men has experienced something of a silent revolution , with smoother lines and looser fits becoming ever more popular . |
| 17 | It was adopted as an ISO standard back in 1986 , and has led something of a ghostly existence in the commercial market ever since , hovering on the boundaries of document interoperability solutions for the last five years . |
| 18 | Even if it is true that God has guided someone into a particular religion , there is no reason why the sociologist can not study the social processes involved in the person 's conversion ; and , conversely , even if it is not true that it was God who was responsible , that does not mean that the sociologist can not study the belief and the ( possibly very considerable ) consequences of that belief for the individual concerned and for society . |
| 19 | Clearly this phenomenon is not confined to the United States ; value pluralism has created something of an educational Tower of Babel in Britain also . |
| 20 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 21 | Though she may be old now , Lady Amory has lost none of the original excitement and enthusiasm which she shared with Sir John , and , like a true gardener , she is constantly looking forward : ‘ I do n't think a garden is the thing to keep ; it 's not like furniture in a room or a house . |
| 22 | The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them . |
| 23 | Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered someone in the stylish thriller Shattered . |
| 24 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 25 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |
| 26 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 27 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 29 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 30 | By my reckoning , if I 'd steered anything like a true course , the Land Rover was way along the road to the right , but it was pointless and impossible to reach it . |