Example sentences of "the [adj] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 2 | The island was a small one in the this has got a heart middle of the pond I could n't find the right line that 's why I did that . |
| 3 | Their prospects were hopeless because the British had developed a command of the sea that was much more effective than anything seen in earlier wars . |
| 4 | After the British had signed an armistice with the Vichy administration , a number of Gaullist " explosions " ( the most celebrated of which was a stormy interview between de Gaulle and the British minister of state in Cairo , Oliver Lyttelton ) forced a modification of the armistice terms so as to accommodate the General 's objections . |
| 5 | ‘ The Sex Pistols ’ , he wrote , ‘ are very New York and it 's nice to see that the British have produced a band capable of producing the atmosphere created by the New York Dolls and their many imitators , even though it might be too late … ’ |
| 6 | The most reasonable assumption was that the French had pushed a cavalry raid across the frontier . |
| 7 | The French have invented a perfume spray , mostly lemon , which stops dogs barking . |
| 8 | Sometimes the measure would be evidence that the Japanese had changed a regulation ; sometimes that the number of distributors of foreign goods had grown , or the rate of acceptance of foreign bids for contracts . |
| 9 | During a three-day trial , the court had heard how a family argument flared into midnight violence in the hamlet of Aberargie , where the accused had occupied a caravan beside his brother 's cottage . |
| 10 | The effect is that even if the liability remains in full the accused has secured a remission of it . |
| 11 | Sir Robert ruled that it did not have credibility and dismissed the charges without any of the accused having to present a defence . |
| 12 | The pain in my stomach was because the swelling had caused a nerve to be trapped . |
| 13 | Although the many pages of Mayhew are positively crammed with evidence that the poor had created a culture of their own , he seems none the less to share Godwin 's view of art ‘ as a social bridge of no ordinary size and strength ’ . |
| 14 | While I fully accept that the poor have become a cause by which many politicians and intellectuals can further their personal ambitions , I do nevertheless find that the Hayekian case is deficient . |
| 15 | It is also believed that none of the injured has made a complaint to the police . |
| 16 | The latter had formed a Master Printers " Association in 1846 , with the explicit aim of keeping out unionists and outlawing strikers . |
| 17 | The latter has become a form of economic drip-feed of dubious value to the patient , although it has maintained economic activity at a higher level than would otherwise be the case . |
| 18 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 19 | The '80s have seen a return to a more stable market , with demand and supply in a measure of equilibrium . |
| 20 | Simultaneously , the eighties have witnessed a shift from systems-oriented work to the capacity of the sensorium to process and transform data — — perception as apparatus — a shift towards virtuality and simulation typified by the video work of Thierry Kuntzel . |
| 21 | The campanile was the first in the city to have a clock that struck the hours ( although that of the church of Sant' Eustorgio was the first to have had a clock , in 1306 ) In its lower part the campanile is square , but it soon becomes octagonal , rising in elegant brickwork tiers separated by delicate friezes . |
| 22 | Her sales have grown with each title ; this is the first to have had a hardback . |
| 23 | The 1990s have witnessed a shift in the art establishment 's attitudes towards art produced outside of its traditional parameters . |
| 24 | The former had taken a golf-club to a smooth , level patch of grass a short distance from the house which Philippe Bonard , anxious to cater for his clients ' leisure needs as well as their thirst for learning , had laid out as a green ; she had donned a pair of heavy-framed spectacles and was practising putting . |
| 25 | The former has written a foreword to Everest : The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour ( Little , Brown , May , £25 ) edited by Peter Gillman , which has over 150 colour and black and white photographs . |
| 26 | There was also speculation concerning the health of both Taufa'ahau Tupou and his aged Prime Minister , the former having cancelled a state visit to Japan in order to travel to Australia for medical treatment , the latter having been incapacitated for a number of years after suffering a stroke . |
| 27 | The insured had made a claim against the insurers . |
| 28 | The Northern has made a £1,690 profit on its imaginary £10,000 portfolio in the first two months of the year , while Wise Speke has made £574 . |
| 29 | For them Friday the 13th had come a day early . |
| 30 | It was true that the two had attended a house auction , but Kylie had simply gone along as a friend while Jason bid for the house he wanted to buy for himself . |