Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jobs are an attempt to inject ‘ new blood ’ into university departments where the turnover of staff has fallen to a trickle and to give new emphasis to information technology . |
| 2 | More of a problem is where water has frozen inside a pipe and split the pipe . |
| 3 | ‘ If you had asked the same plumber three times to fix a leak , and , every time he has been , he has pottered around a bit and he has gone away , telling you he has fixed it and there you are standing in the kitchen up to your waist in water , are you going to call the same plumber to fix it again ? ’ he asked . |
| 4 | Crestworth Trading , the company which originally made the lamp , started work on them again in 1990 and turnover has tripled in a year and a half . |
| 5 | Speaking at a news conference he said : ‘ Ian Lang [ the Scottish Secretary ] has talked of a referendum and I welcome that . |
| 6 | An inquest has opened on a man and woman who were shot in the carpark of a D-I-Y store . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , a three-year-old boy , Hafeez Mahmood , has died after a hit and run accident at Smethwick in the West Midlands . |
| 8 | And from the fields and villages of England , where work has slowed to a trickle and where the landlords have enclosed the common lands ( after 1802 ) SO that even subsistence living is difficult , from these fields comes a mighty army of labour . |
| 9 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
| 10 | IBM Corp 's board has settled on a pay and benefits package for new chief executive Louis Gerstner , who takes up his post today , valued at over $7m : he will receive an annual salary of $2m , a one-time transition payment of $5m and a string of other incentives including a performance incentive potentially worth $1.5m a year , $500,000 long-term incentive tied to performance over three years and options on 500,000 IBM shares — far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 11 | Hillier has recovered from a virus and is likely to play in an unchanged side at Highbury . |
| 12 | Doctor McRae , the only one to have survived the cruise unscathed , has tripped on a kerbstone and broken his foot . |
| 13 | You may recall that this committee has asked for a health and housing conference but we seem to get under it rather a lot of times , nothing it appears to be happening . |
| 14 | Say a bird has gone after a rabbit and landed awkwardly and got one of its deck feathers ( a pair of prominent feathers found in the tail ) buckled . |
| 15 | The avoidance of fixed form demonstrates what Tony Tanner has identified as a dream and its corresponding fear : |
| 16 | Describe what has happened in a story and predict what may happen next . |
| 17 | Erm in the early stages , I mean you 've got to go through all the ranks , you 've got to go through that physical side , even if you want to get on , there 's no direct promotion into the higher ranks so you 've got to go through it , every Chief Officer , every senior officer that you , you come across in the fire service , has started as a fireman and will start as a fireman on like er the forces where you get direct entry into the forces , you do n't get them in the Fire Service . |
| 18 | Colin J Annis ( have to be careful how I spell that ) has sent in a solution and map for Yabba Dabba Doo . |
| 19 | Since embarking on the diet Barbara has lost over a stone and her inch loss is quite remarkable . |
| 20 | This adherence to the decision in Morgan has extended to a reiteration and confirmation of Lord Hailsham 's statement in the case that a defendant who has intercourse ‘ nolens volens , that is recklessly and not caring whether the victim be a consenting party or not , ’ will be liable for rape . |