Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The club have chartered a special flight from Manchester to Bologna and over 100 fans hare already booked up to travel with the official party .
2 It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting .
3 I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination .
4 ‘ We played the leading role in bringing Zimbabwe to independence and have given a great deal of help to Zimbabwe since independence , ’ she said .
5 Glamorgan have given a six-week trial to former Kent allrounder Mark Dobson , 24 .
6 SCHOOL governors have given a cautious welcome to news that the go-ahead has been given to expand Darlington 's overcrowded Catholic schools .
7 Wordsworth concludes The Prelude with tributes to his sister Dorothy , and to S. T. Coleridge , both of whom , in their different ways , helped him to resolve the personal crisis into which the events of the 1790s had led him , and I have given a short biography of each .
8 In chapter 3 I shall discuss more fully the question of how far these demographic structures do affect the nature of family obligations , at any given point in historical time , considering in particular how far demographic factors in the late twentieth century have given a particular shape to kin groups .
9 Otherwise , they may find that they have given a huge advantage to their competitors , without benefiting sufficiently from the opportunities that have been made available to them .
10 In so doing , they have given a false picture of Jesus ’ own intention in the use of parables .
11 Complaints sent from Malaysian businessmen to government officials have given an unprecedented insight into the extent of illegal rainforest logging in country .
12 CUSTOMERS at Child & Co have given an enthusiastic welcome to a newly opened museum room at the branch .
13 I join those who have given an enthusiastic welcome to the Queen 's Speech and to the measures within it .
14 National Trust members and the general public have given an enthusiastic reception to the National Trust Visa card and savings account scheme launched with Midland Bank in April .
15 We have formulated an ideal piece of research which we could never hope to carry out with our own ( almost certainly ) limited money , time and personnel .
16 These documents — student records and timetables — often have to carry a great deal of information including complex messages and progress summaries .
17 ‘ I have heard a great deal about Harvard — who has n't ?
18 We have heard a great deal about the upheavals in Eastern Europe in recent months .
19 We have heard a great deal about the assistance that will be given to buy-outs .
20 It was sold as part of the National Bus Company sale to a company about which we have heard a great deal in our deliberations , Stagecoach , which is based in Perth .
21 During the past two days we have heard a vast number of contributions and I pay tribute to the common sense and foresight of Labour Members who have not only pointed out the inequalities of the system that is still in being but the pitfalls that we see ahead of us .
22 Many students , teachers , educationalists , and examiners like to deal with things which can be classified as clearly right or wrong , and perhaps this is one reason why they have favoured an atomistic approach to foreign language learning , for communication is hard to assess , whereas isolated levels like grammar and vocabulary are much easier .
23 The enemy , it appears , have withdrawn a short distance from the area in front of 6 Commando , the front being just the same in front of the other Commando units .
24 So if , as seems likely , we have to wait a long time for a follow up to the triumphant Glyndebourne production , we should be all the more grateful for occasions like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's concert performance ( sponsored by English Estates ) .
25 a matter will be er that we going to fight er , easily er so I mean i , it meant that the er , that er er some more should be brought out so that it er does er adhere to what er these er er government departments er expect as a response rather than er er as this considered issue raising er , we can er facilitate that er quite er easily but er I think er the the main point is what Hugh has said , that er we opposed it because it 's not going to help in my view it 's not going to help er the patients , the patients are not going to come off any better as a result of er , these er er what I would say and I feel and er the , I I I 'd like to know what er the GP 's think about cos GP 's usually erm er , advise their patients if they have to wait a long time from one hospital , they would advise them to go into London and er , if that 's been stopped as been er that 's been stated erm then erm , er the GP 's are not going to feel very happy about their patients er , getting er erm a lesser service .
26 Delivery times for most items were generally satisfactory , but there appears to be a possibility that readers consulting early or rare books in the South Reading Room have to wait a considerable time for items ordered over the lunchtime period .
27 ( 1986 ) have undertaken a multi-variate study of 103 urban regions of the EC .
28 We have undertaken a considerable change from direct to indirect taxes , which is absolutely right because it enables many more people to spend their money as they wish .
29 We have undertaken a randomised trial of elemental diet v prednisolone , to consider these points , in patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent attacks of Crohn 's disease , and followed up the patients for one year after treatment or until relapse .
30 During the time that you 've been away from work you have certainly not been ‘ not working ’ — you have undertaken a whole host of activities which happen to have been unpaid .
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