Example sentences of "[adj] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We did not merely see three ships come sailing by : ordering in threes has shown significant benefits and economies .
2 Nonetheless , most recent work into the psychological attitude of people as to whether areas are urban or rural has used multivariate techniques .
3 The particularly complicated editorial and keying work on volume 8 of the Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired since 1925 has made substantial progress this year ; the catalogue description is finished and the disc has been sent to HMSO , while work on the index is at an advanced stage .
4 This is not to say that no one who has left China since 1980 has had dissident tendencies , but they would probably keep these concealed before being allowed out .
5 Each has had magnificent results .
6 Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation .
7 Instead they took on the passivity of the adored object in an equation — homosexual desire translated into female adoration — that has haunted English pop ever since from the Beatles through the Bay City Rollers to Wham ! ; as one of Wham 's managers , Simon Napier-Bell , makes explicit in his memoir of the sixties :
8 That has allowed medical genealogists to draw up family trees , showing how breast and ovarian cancer has been inherited from one generation to the next .
9 It is this last factor — the high cost of extending the scope of mainframe-based applications — that has discouraged hard-pressed customers in the US from adding mainframe power at a rapid pace even as they have rapidly added desktop machines and minicomputers .
10 Will he agree that inward investment is due to the activities of the Welsh Development Agency , some of the lowest wages in Britain and high levels of skills , and that it is the quality of the Welsh work force as much as anything else that has brought inward investment into Wales ?
11 That has opened new wounds in relationships between the two sides , barely on speaking terms after bad blood dating back to the infamous Shakoor Rana-Mike Gatting bust-up .
12 This has created particular problems in parts of the Norfolk Broads , for example .
13 This has kept mass tourism at bay .
14 This has given large capital gains to many people , but also a misleading picture about the ‘ ease of making money ’ .
15 This has given fresh impetus to European Community moves to base a levy on carbon dioxide emissions .
16 This has imposed new demands on refineries .
17 Additional interest is generated by the large and varying changes in the real price of different fuels over the 1970s and early 1980s and by the question as to how this has affected different households .
18 This has aroused considerable interest in recent years .
19 This has generated forceful opposition .
20 This has generated considerable concern about the ethnographic experience itself , and specifically about the subjective nature of the process .
21 This has enabled domestic markets to compete on a much more equal footing .
22 ‘ The Home Office has funded various research projects , one of which looked at the effect of murder on the victims ’ families ; this has enabled local schemes to help victims of the most serious crime .
23 This has caused great alarm among the young men in the western half of the city , many of whom moved to Berlin to avoid going insane with boredom in a Bundeswehr barracks .
24 One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’
25 However , an event which followed this has caused genuine horror among museum staff and the public at large .
26 As the French Ambassador in Japan had signed a written agreement guaranteeing their return this has caused considerable embarrassment and a split between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chancellory ( who are backing the judge ) .
27 This has involved close linkages between private and public capital and between mining and other sectors of the economy , giving rise to a core economic bloc which might be termed a mineral-energy complex .
28 This has involved non-recurrent additions of £2m in 1991–2 , and £1.5m in 1992–3 and 1993–4 over and above its recurrent baseline of £3m .
29 In many ways this has destroyed nationalist confidence in the RUC . ’
30 More recently this has received added support from the environmental lobby , which has also looked askance at all but the most picturesque forms of employment being introduced into rural areas .
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