Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " 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 Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil .
3 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 .
4 This is the first test we have carried out on a garden blower vac .
5 Cover Girl have come up with a computer to help you select the most flattering shade of make-up .
6 ‘ We have applied for charitable status and we have come up with a slogan , Only Together We Can Win . ’
7 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 ) .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Now the Scottish Prison Service and the Scottish Council for Single Homeless have come up with a package that attempts to address the problem .
16 I wonder if they have come up against a rapacity of the of the rates .
17 In an attempt to cure this problem ( and sell more skegs ) the manufacturers have come out with a number of ingenious shapes .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Everything is different from Ilkley though we have met up with a family from Leeds , which makes it more like home . ’
21 It is easy to be unaware of the pressures we are under until they have built up to a head .
22 So we realize we 're not gon na be here to change the habits that have built up over a lifetime .
23 I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit .
24 Others have muddled through without a policy , although in that situation choices are still forced willy-nilly upon those who select materials .
25 The pretenders became genuine contenders by showing how much they have grown up as a team .
26 No I especially hope it will be read by sceptics , by people who have grown up with a kind of psychologically inspired dismissal of religion , people who 've become so sophisticated , so busy they have no time for it , people who are so bemused by technology , by the greatness of human achievement , the computers , the moon rockets , the medical advances , that in their worship of human talent they forget that there 's a point where human power ends and the power of God begins .
27 Jobs apart , looking young and sexy may still seem important and desirable to many of those who have grown up in a society which lays such emphasis on youth and sex .
28 the women 's traditional role of instinctive carer is one explanation , particularly amongst women who have grown up in a family of disabled or dependent relatives , willingness to accept low pay is another .
29 Now markets have opened up as a result of making desks ; we now design and produce complete study and library schemes , designed to fit .
30 The last wild malas , a small species of wallaby , have died out in a fire in the Tanami desert of the Northern Territory .
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