Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Precisely because Stars & Stripes can not match the speed of Kanza and America , Conner 's designers have optimised her for a narrow light air band of 5–8 knots .
2 They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor .
3 While commentators have dismissed her as a serious contender , those who worked intimately with the Prince and watched Mountbatten 's machinations at first-hand were convinced that marriage between Prince Charles and Amanda Knatchbull was a virtual certainty .
4 IN THE course of our lives , events take place , with which the passage of time , we come to realise are like milestones ; they have pointed us in a new direction , often posing a challenge which in the providence of God , when accepted , leads us deeper into his life and service .
5 Welcome to new readers who have joined us with the recent acquisitions of Argyll Services a London-based office and retail cleaning company , Wessex Hygiene Services who specialise in kitchen ventilation and convector cleaning in Bristol , Wiltshire and Somerset , and Rowland Compliance testing who take us into a new realm of contract servicing in circuit testing and maintenance of electrical appliances .
6 In our answer to question 4 we have included it as a current account balance in order to reduce Susan 's exposure vis-a -vis Bob .
7 I have included it among the general books because Michael and Lise Wallach offer as total a critique as I have seen recently of the assumptions underlying most psychology .
8 The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law .
9 Warne 's exploits in the Old Trafford Test , when he grabbed eight wickets , have catapulted him into the Top 10 of the Coopers and Lybrand Ratings , where he is within sight of another Aussie scourge of England , absent medium-fast bowler Bruce Reid .
10 ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world .
11 In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) .
12 Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way .
13 These are the people who have seen her through the difficult times , who have helped her adjust to the life before her and who have kept her in touch with the real world .
14 Some have seen them as a fine declaration of faith , but they are not .
15 For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win .
16 Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power .
17 I was not so much gratified with the interior of the country as I had anticipated but the people tell me I have seen it in an unfavorable season , in consequence of no rain having fallen for 3 months .
18 Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you .
19 Even so , few companies have embraced it with the down-and-dirty relish of Converse — another spot features a girl getting the brand 's logo tatooed on her bottom .
20 In effect , we have presented you with a prime site , and it 's up to you to decide what you want to do with it .
21 They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory .
22 The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant .
23 ‘ I have moved it to a small paddock beyond the castle walls . ’
24 and as he 's done that the mates behind him have shot him with a real gun , his gone , his gone
25 Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown .
26 Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today .
27 Finally , assuming that you have made it to the right starting line in plenty of time , wearing the right kit and your race number , and are facing the correct way when the cannon sounds , there is just one last piece of essential advice : do n't panic !
28 Some people have had them with a solid roof
29 I was present at the sale and bought a set of Keesing 's Contemporary Archives which have proved invaluable though I have used them with the usual misgivings that accompany the enjoyment of a benefit which has been denied to others .
30 Instead of sticking a jar of coffee in front of your face and saying ‘ Buy this , drink this ’ , they have drawn you into a whole lifestyle . ’
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