Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will then have to contend with a challenge in the British courts over the legal status of Britain 's opt-out from the social chapter . |
| 2 | A pretty girl and one that should be with a man , not a girl who should have sat beside a solicitor in a High Street divorce court . |
| 3 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 4 | Anyone would have felt at a disadvantage in such a situation . |
| 5 | That would have been like a win to us and I 'm sure a draw would have felt like a failure in the Australian dressing room . |
| 6 | If , for example , primary productivity in the region is limited by iron , and iron is becoming increasingly available , the iron stimulation would have to lead to a reduction in upper ocean nitrate and phosphate in the summer over the past 30 years . |
| 7 | The presence of efficient predators would have acted as a stimulus in the evolution of other groups : even algal grazers would be compelled to evolve protective devices or rapid reproductive strategies to outpace predatory depredations . |
| 8 | Only a peacock or a P.T. instructor could have walked round a camp in the way he admired . |
| 9 | He looked at her in silence for several long moments , but instead of denying the accusation he said , ‘ As my acting hostess I expect you to know what they 're like , otherwise it will be impossible for you to explain that honeymooners expecting luxury suites with king-sized beds will have to settle for a roll in the hay . ’ |
| 10 | ( If overall expenditure had remained the same in real terms , a fall in pupil numbers of 17% would have led to a rise in unit costs of 20% ) ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.10 ) . |
| 11 | Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices . |
| 12 | These factors may have led to a decrease in the exposure of the colonic mucosa to carcinogens and may have protected the colon and negated any effect of the modest increases in the proliferative zone in the distal colon . |
| 13 | If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration . |
| 14 | Dr. Robert Upshall , who would have fought for a seat in Parliament , said party supporters would continue to hammer home the environmental message . |
| 15 | So far as Vecchi was concerned , the guy must have climbed into a hole in the ground and pulled the lid over his head . |
| 16 | There was also a reduction in the number of elderly bus passenger casualties which may have resulted in a fall in the number of trips being made following the introduction of fares for concessionary travel . |
| 17 | At a more mature stage , the increase in sales volume should have resulted in a decline in investment intensity , while profit and ROI will increase if the investment is successful . |
| 18 | As described in the previous section , this may have resulted from a decrease in the number of elderly people using buses following the introduction in September 1991 of fares for concessionary travel . |
| 19 | Also , at the end of it all you will have to eat like a bird in order to avoid putting back all the fat you lost . |
| 20 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 21 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 22 | He knew that he would never have survived as a teacher in the state sector : he was both not good enough and not bad enough . |
| 23 | But again , flexibility is built in to the system : you do n't have to register for a degree in just one subject area , but a free to mix and match your courses to build a degree that is tailor-made to your own requirements . |