Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They may be bottom of the table but their latest signings have given them a new lease of life . |
2 | If undemanding schooling methods , supplemented by hours in front of cretinous , discontinuous TV programmes , have given them a thirty-second attention span , poor linguistic skills , therefore poor conceptualising and critical powers , and a craving for instant entertainment , then it will not matter what cultural policy a government adopts . |
3 | There is no doubt that some worksheets are simply banal , and it may be these that have given them a bad name — especially the quiz type that simply ask " How many ? " or " What ? " |
4 | Addressing the Institute of Housing in 1989 , the Junior Minister of Housing said of housing associations : ‘ We have given them a vital job to do . |
5 | At his home at Tackley in Oxfordshire , his parents have given him a special shed to play in , with his own lock and key of course . |
6 | Ten years with Courtaulds Italia , based in Milan , have given him a Mediterranean outlook on life which squares easily with the goals of Single Market integration . |
7 | ‘ The police have given me a special telephone number . |
8 | ‘ They have given me a special office in the Kremlin . |
9 | ‘ You have given me a whole month of misery . |
10 | Both have given me a remarkable insight into the events they portray . |
11 | Zoologists have found the animal difficult to classify in either the genus Felis or Panthera and have given it a new genus , hence Neofelis nebula . |
12 | ‘ Women have taught me a tremendous amount about emotions . |
13 | Although little known as yet over here , their unashamedly passionate lyrics and stunning vocal harmonies have earned them a big name in the States . |
14 | Sometimes they give you the feeling that they have done you a great favour by attending rehearsals and at the end of the rehearsal period it 's ‘ Bye-bye loves , now you do your thing and I 'll go off and do another ’ . |
15 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
16 | Once colleagues and still friends , their similar redbrick-professor-writer lifestyles and largely campus subject-matter have made them a joined personality . |
17 | ‘ Is that necessary ? ’ asked his wife , who had all the instincts that would , a century ago , have made her a successful workhouse mistress . |
18 | Some boards have made it a procedural requirement in their regulations that evidence of title to a property be produced in support of the application for permanent transfer , where the existing licence holder 's consent is not forthcoming , or where there are conflicting applications by prospective transferees . |
19 | Since the formation of the first such combine in 1968 , comprising six units of production with a total of around 6,000 individual members , the Mondragon planners have made it a recommended practice to group individual cooperatives into such units . |
20 | TV producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason have offered them a high-security estate , close to Beverly Hills . |
21 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
22 | They said , ’ We have got you a good deal . |
23 | We have got you a blind date … ’ |
24 | His family have bought him a new hi-fi for Christmas . |
25 | Though the rumours have told us a great deal , he 's still far from well , he might need a heart bypass , he 's gon na have to retire form politics . |
26 | As the Tory pamphleteer of the Exclusion Crisis , John Nalson , had advised his readers : " If you think , and find I have told you a plain Truth … inform the Ignorant , confront the Impudent , satisfie the Doubtful and Staggering , and unite the Loyal " . |
27 | ‘ They have called me a rotten apple , which , coming from them , I take as a compliment , ’ he says . |
28 | The Bar is a leader in the field of video conferencing applications within the courts and the legal profession and its endeavours have brought us a good deal of favourable publicity . |
29 | A S THIS campaign rumbles on I long for John Major to stand up either on his soapbox ( which is really a box for transporting Central Office typewriters but no matter ) or on one of the Conservative Party 's all-singing , all-dancing stage sets , and say : ‘ I have brought you a dramatic drop in the rate of inflation . |
30 | Most of this book is devoted to paradigmatic sense relations ( lexical semanticists , in general , have found them a richer vein to mine than relations of the syntagmatic variety ) . |