Example sentences of "who have [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 2 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 3 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 4 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | ‘ The Missus ’ was about as inappropriate a soubriquet for Onyx Muggeridge as could be imagined , and Mike Pumfrey , who had heard a few scraps about her already , registered this . |
| 6 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 7 | The Vietnamese , who have kept a few items of sunken treasure for a museum in Hanoi , but sent most of it for auction in the West , pronounced themselves well satisfied . |
| 8 | Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals . |