Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the early 1980s , the receipts from direct taxes on income have fluctuated around an average figure some 10% above those from indirect taxes on expenditure ; we have returned to the broad pattern of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 2 | In the 13 World Cups since 1930 , the world 's best players have gathered in an ever-expanding display of skill and enthusiasm for the game . |
| 3 | For the most part , multidisciplinary psychogeriatric teams have developed as an enhanced version of the traditional service , with the consultant as the team leader and decision maker and all patients receiving formal psychiatric assessment at some point during their contact with the service . |
| 4 | Thieves have broken into an electrical shop and stolen several sophisticated radio scanners . |
| 5 | Firstly , different studies have pointed to an important role for somatostatin , present in paracrine cells in the antral mucosa , in the regulation of gastrin release under physiological and pathophysiological conditions . |
| 6 | And if voters have voted for an excluded candidate , why should they be permitted to switch their preference ? |
| 7 | The charges against Mr Perez have come at an inconvenient moment , not only for him but also for Venezuela . |
| 8 | We have to come to an arbitrary decision and then justify it |
| 9 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 10 | Food : As we have seen in an earlier chapter , our physical condition has a great influence on our minds and our emotions — the reverse also being true . |
| 11 | As we have seen in an earlier chapter , by gentleman or noble person Spenser is thinking of a distinctive class of person , but his desire to fashion gentlemen nevertheless might be seen as directed at individual development . |
| 12 | ( Hereford cattle entries have slumped to an all time low of just fifty nine here at the show.The ancient local breed has been hit by competition from Continental cattle.But now the Hereford farmers are fighting back with a scheme to boost beef sales.Richard Barnett reports : ) |
| 13 | As a way of understanding these linked themes we have argued for an increased emphasis on ‘ the expressive order ’ : the understandings , interpretations and theories which people have of their social world and the way it is changing . |
| 14 | They have sifted through an extraordinary amount of information , and compiled a readable , thorough and ground-breaking account of the subject . |
| 15 | They have turned towards an inner contact with Christ based upon faith which has sought to bypass the historical research that sought to determine , with an accuracy previous centuries could never manage , the nature of Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 16 | Torture and ill-treatment remains prevalent and some detainees have died as an apparent result of ill-treatment . |
| 17 | Staff members have acted in an advisory capacity on such projects as sites for dams , reservoirs , power stations , underground storage , major sewage schemes , new towns and buildings of all kinds , quarries , tunnels and routes for major roads and pipe lines . |
| 18 | Many sites have advanced on an incremental basis by developing one area on a small-scale system . |
| 19 | Once you have got into an improvising state of mind almost any piece of furniture will begin to develop potential . |
| 20 | Dry batteries for fencer units are outrageously expensive , so I have resorted to an old tractor battery , trickle-charged by a windmill made from a bicycle wheel with its dynamo hub : it cost nothing and worked without trouble for a year at a stretch . |
| 21 | I have to look at an intelligent face . |
| 22 | They have called for an immediate apology and say the muddle may have cost crucial votes in the battle for Darlington . |
| 23 | EC environment ministers acting upon the increasing scientific evidence for ozone depletion , have called for an accelerated plan for withdrawing ozone-depleting compounds . |
| 24 | Scientists have called for an urgent review of recently set government safety limits which are now thought to be inadequate . |
| 25 | Now the Liberal Democrats have re-emerged as an effective party of protest . |
| 26 | It was miraculous to find so young a girl , of Juliet 's own age , with a depth of passion which could by rights only have belonged to an older woman ; the problem of casting the ideal was solved . |
| 27 | But if we do , we should also discern in them the origins of the teamwork and collaboration that we have brought to an unparalleled peak of complexity and that has brought us some of our greatest achievements . |
| 28 | This relationship is evidently not to be confused with a sexual relationship ; it is just that once you have entered into an artistic liaison of this intensity , the sexual shenanigans are likely to follow . |
| 29 | Failures in the application of Functionalism have derived from an incorrect definition of ‘ live in ’ . |
| 30 | The tickets already sold have gone to an established network of football fans , Rothenberg said . |