Example sentences of "have [vb pp] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Clark has written of the eigh-teenth-century Englishman : The agency of the State which confronted him in everyday life was not Parliament , reaching out as a machinery of representative democracy … but the Church , quartering the land not into a few hundred constituencies but into ten thousand parishes , impinging on the daily concerns of the great majority , supporting its black-coated intelligentsia , bidding for a monopoly of education , piety and political acceptability . |
| 2 | Christopher Tugendhat , a former Commissioner , has written of the dreamlike sensation in Brussels , where the daily drama of Community life goes almost entirely unreported in the national newspapers on sale in the city . |
| 3 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the Maastricht agreement on future inward investment into the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the Maastricht agreement on future inward investment into the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | What has become of the proletarian consciousness of this working-class town in ‘ The Little Red Province ’ ? |
| 6 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 7 | Dr Ward has spoken of the potential effects on children who were unborn at the time of the incident . |
| 8 | Hitherto , although the structure of the motion has become increasingly complex , the time scale of the velocity fluctuations has remained of the same order as the period of the initial wave . |
| 9 | Its aim is to understand the historical origins and the development in the successive cultural milieux through which the Christian faith has passed of the major doctrines in which these beliefs have been expressed ; and it is particularly concerned with the contemporary appraisal and formulation of these doctrines in view of the dominant directions of modern thought , and with their ecumenical prospects . |
| 10 | Thompson ( 1980 ) has warned of the potential danger of a strong police autocracy , conscious , no doubt , of the slim line which exists between the democratic use of power and its subversion by a more centralized totalitarianism . |
| 11 | A senior government official in Kazakhstan has warned of the growing danger posed by unsupervised dumping of industrial waste including components or instruments with powerful sources of ionizing radiation . |
| 12 | Captain Kepler Wessels has complained of the indecent haste in agreeing to play the series in the West Indies so soon after the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 13 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 14 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 15 | ‘ Has Mr MacKay left yet ? ’ she 'd enquired of the startled receptionist . |
| 16 | The way information zoomed round Shellerton , anyone theoretically could have heard of the lost camera and the way to find it . |
| 17 | So you ca n't dissolve a congress , there 's a fixed term , I 'll read you what the constitution says , it says the president shall from time to time give to the congress information on the state of the union you may have heard of the famous state of the union address to congress that the president makes on an annual basis and he shall recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient . |
| 18 | Also they may have heard of the legendary speed at which Pentos pays its bills . |
| 19 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 20 | He would have approved of the extensive use on the site of existing equipment and buildings . |
| 21 | As we can be sure that Howard would have approved of the constructive use of prisoners ' time and energy and training in work habits , so we can probably also assume that he would have been disappointed in and disapproving of the latest trend . |
| 22 | Some of our children classified as having died of the sudden infant death syndrome may have been suffocated , but none of them presented to hospital before their death if that was so . |
| 23 | ‘ I could never have dreamed of the European Cup final at Oldham or Easter Road . |
| 24 | Pete gave another look over the Princess , and wondered what Ted would have thought of the berthing arrangements had he been here to see them . |
| 25 | This is something unique ; and it is not surprising that somebody should have thought of the mystical chariot of Ezechiel . |
| 26 | Then once having disposed of the bogus Robert Gravier , the real Mr G. could live on his swindled millions without fear of being chased by the law or his many creditors . |
| 27 | Having disposed of the ideal type approach and the question of whether or not teachers are professionals , Hoyle asks which parts of the idea of professionality are useful in the school context and he suggests two heuristic models of restricted and extended professionality . |
| 28 | Having spoken of the vital importance of the navy for a trading power , Jervois turned to the urgent need to protect London from an invader , because London was not like Moscow , which the Russians had abandoned before Napoleon and survived , but like Paris . |
| 29 | There was no [ overt ] Dionysiac worship among the Greeks at this time ; and though they must have known of the near-Eastern festivals , the savage excesses of those cults were totally alien to them , at least on a conscious level , and were rejected uncompromisingly . |
| 30 | Harvard Securities were paid to make a market in Towerbell Records , but as Tom Wilmot has pointed out , the dealer who sent that letter would not have known of the pending disaster since dealers were forbidden access to the firm 's corporate finance department by the so-called " Chinese walls " However Wilmot has sometimes blamed his dealers for breaching dealing regulations . |