Example sentences of "this [noun sg] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I and an ‘ ex-student ’ of this course have formed a university base for clinical forensic medicine within a division of legal medicine attached to the department of pathological studies of Manchester University .
2 The tensions and contradictions in this scenario have produced a response , not from politicians , but from a small but growing section of the population involved in various forms of social and community action .
3 All the cases analysed up to this point have involved a relationship of incidence between the infinitive and some other verb .
4 This phenomenon is almost impossible to illustrate in a monologue , and I would at this point have issued a handout , if the talk were not being recorded , for it is very easy to see a sentence in progress when the turns in the dialogue are written down .
5 Some scholars have argued that despite the front quality of OE /ae/ , ME a was a back vowel ( or perhaps merely a fully low vowel : it is not always clear what is meant by ‘ back vowel ’ ) , and on this basis have postulated a change around 1600 from a back ( or low ) value to front-raised /ae/ , which is of course the modern conservative RP value .
6 Although our debates on this subject have attracted a flurry of interest , attendances at debates on the European Community are not noted for their large size .
7 ‘ People this year have spent a lot of time paying off their debts and credit cards and digging into their savings . ’
8 From this tradition have emerged a number of notable black Gospel choirs , some of them performing to a very high standard .
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