Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some critics have labelled such shows a huge con but , according to Arts Centre spokeswoman Alison Lister , the display has received a warm welcome in Darlington . |
| 2 | Public access to an environmentally attractive waterfront has received a favourable response in the city and has undoubtedly muted political debate . |
| 3 | Northumbria has received a generous increase in standard spending assessment of 17.3 per cent . |
| 4 | But since it was established in 1775 to serve as a printer to Edinburgh 's legal , banking and ecclesiastical communities P&W has developed a strong position in financial printing , providing it with a coverage that goes much wider than ‘ Sketch and describe an electronic circuit . ’ |
| 5 | Poststructuralism , deriving from Mallarmé as well as Saussure , has developed a heady rhetoric in which signifiers are prised apart from signifieds , in Hawkes 's phrase , and then fly away in all directions in their ‘ free play ’ . |
| 6 | But it is most evident whenever a teacher has developed a real interest in some school subject or area of the curriculum , often the result of some form of limited subject specialisation by the teacher . |
| 7 | This only occurs if the mother has developed a primary attack in the last few weeks of pregnancy . |
| 8 | Over the years it has developed an international reputation in research on student learning strategies , critical analysis of adult basic and overseas education , and in educational philosophy and policy . |
| 9 | Veronica Williams , for example , has developed an interesting approach in connection with her work on art history . |
| 10 | BRITAIN has broken a vital barrier in developing computers that recognise continuous speech rather than needing a keyboard to type in information . |
| 11 | Education in Sudan since independence has witnessed a substantial expansion in the total number of schools , pupils and teachers at primary , intermediate and secondary levels . |
| 12 | There 's much that makes sense ; there 's much that is thought-provoking , even if the thought it provokes is often that the authors are off their trolley ( 'be alert to the strange fact that the end of each century divisible by five has witnessed a major transition in Western civilisation ’ ) . |
| 13 | How can this implication be justified when the last decade has witnessed a real growth in public spending , particularly on health and society security , coupled with an increase in overall taxation ? |
| 14 | Essex has witnessed a significant increase in pupil exclusions in both primary and secondary schools , but still has one of the lowest rates in the region . |
| 15 | A plan to restrict late-night pub opening generally to 1.30am across a three-mile-square area of central Edinburgh , where a number of the area 's 500 pubs and clubs can open until 3am or 4am , has provoked a deep division in the district council 's Labour group . |
| 16 | Is the Minister aware that the Department of the Environment has undertaken a surreptitious exercise in an attempt to destroy the private sector taxi service in Belfast ? |
| 17 | This tournament has filled an important gap in Higher Education tennis thanks to Midland Bank 's financial support ( which stretches from sponsoring schools tennis right through to the World circuit ) . |
| 18 | Now Prabhakar , a 34-year-old applied physicist , is poised to become head of NIST , to which the Clinton administration has given a leading role in stimulating the US economy . |
| 19 | NATO says it has completed a huge reduction in its Cold War nuclear arsenal , cutting the number of weapons in Europe by 80pc . |
| 20 | What is undeniably true is that Mr Perot 's extraordinary performance at last November 's election , when he won more of the vote than any third-party candidate since 1912 , has exposed a deep distrust in the electorate for the familiar old kind of politician . |
| 21 | This issue has formed a key element in the historical debate over the idea of higher education . |
| 22 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 23 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 24 | Specialization in weaponry has attracted a large following in the West . |
| 25 | The analysis has included a one-hour debrief in the immediate aftermath of Cardiff when self-criticism rather than praise was the theme . |
| 26 | It has become the premier institution of higher education in the maintained sector in Wales , and especially since the transfer of responsibility from the DES to the Welsh Office in April 1978 , it has occupied a unique position in that , compared to England with its large number of polytechnics and to Scotland with its three central institutions which are analogous to polytechnics , it is the only polytechnic in Wales . |
| 27 | Tank decor has come a long way in recent years from the garish backdrop , and the odd lump of rock with a few dying plants . |
| 28 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 29 | Imaging technology has come a long way in the last few years and there are currently available several Imaging systems which in theory could integrate with Council Tax software . |
| 30 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |