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

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1 THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges .
2 Research and theory on the origins of schizophrenia have developed simultaneously in a number of very different directions which can broadly be categorised as genetic , organic and psychosocial .
3 Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil .
4 Palatine now brew their own house lager ( ‘ Palatinate ’ ) and have joined up with a number of other smaller regional breweries to market independent products such as Dulverton Cider .
5 Brian Tustian is one of the organic farmers who have responded enthusiastically to an arrangement that bypasses wholesalers and sells straight to the public .
6 This is the first test we have carried out on a garden blower vac .
7 The measures will be even tighter than those instituted for all flights from French airports a week ago — which include the X-raying of all hold baggage , new controls on hand baggage , and body searches — that have added up to an hour to flight checks-ins .
8 I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted .
9 We have looked favourably at a number of their items in the past but over the last year or two they have acquired a growing respect for the estimable sound of their CD players .
10 Outsiders have looked hard for an arrangement for the southern Slavs .
11 You have probably heard that I found it impossible to afford living in London any longer and have come here as a master .
12 PRIVATE nursing home owners have come forward with a rescue plan for a doomed old people 's home in a bid to save 21 pensioners from having to move .
13 After the collapse of a section of the sixteenth-century city walls , weakened by water infiltration ( see The Art Newspaper No. 20 , July-September 1992 , p.1 ) , a Japanese consortium have come forward with an offer to supply the large sum needed for repairs .
14 Cover Girl have come up with a computer to help you select the most flattering shade of make-up .
15 ‘ We have applied for charitable status and we have come up with a slogan , Only Together We Can Win . ’
16 Now , strangely , Spalding have come up with a ball which measures 1.717 but which they call simply a 1.72 — the legal requirement regarding size , as stipulated in Clause ( b ) of Appendix III of the Rules of Golf , being only that the diameter of the ball shall be not less than 1.680 inches ( 42.67mm ) .
17 ‘ As an example , we have come up with a de-sulphurization system to prevent damage to natural gas pipelines and a North Sea gas rig has had the equipment installed .
18 Banks have come up with a development of their IOR Checkmate sails , which were Kevlar and Mylar , and now build CHS Checkmate sails in a special Dacron fabric developed in the UK ; they carry no CHS penalty .
19 SCIENTISTS from the General Electric Company in New York have come up with a way of measuring how much charge is left in a lead-acid battery .
20 FoE campaigner Viv Mountford said : ‘ We have always said that if ICI build an incinerator it could attract other ‘ dirty industry ’ and now already North West Water have come up with a scheme to burn sewage sludge in Widnes .
21 However , the authors of WFP have not thought the matter through and have come up with a set of proposals which will simply divert attention away from the real agenda which does exist for NHS capital accounting .
22 Recently the neurochemists have come up with a set of toxins which appear to be fairly effective in destroying only cell bodies , leaving axons intact ( Kohler et al .
23 They have come up with a list of questions to ask candidates when the come canvassing to your door to check how green they are .
24 Now the Scottish Prison Service and the Scottish Council for Single Homeless have come up with a package that attempts to address the problem .
25 I wonder if they have come up against a rapacity of the of the rates .
26 In an attempt to cure this problem ( and sell more skegs ) the manufacturers have come out with a number of ingenious shapes .
27 Word has it that an unlikely combination of forces have come together in a bid to establish a new standard for installing Unix software from graphical user interfaces and will be showing their stuff next month 's Uniforum show in San Francisco .
28 It is of great credit to the Committee that it describes the situation so clearly and that it points out many of the problems that have come about as a result of Government policy towards private residential care over the past few years .
29 He also said he is ‘ very optimistic ’ about the NCR computer division , where orders from Europe recently have picked up after a period of extreme softness .
30 Everything is different from Ilkley though we have met up with a family from Leeds , which makes it more like home . ’
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