Example sentences of "[adj] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up until recently the English have had certain virtues assigned : honesty , loyalty , fair dealing , kindness to animals ( and women ) . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , 68% of owner-directors said that their financial or material rewards had not increased over the past 12 months ; 65% now work over 50 hours a week , 38% have considered disposal over the past year , and over half have injected extra funds . |
| 3 | Sandstones in the Carboniferous have given modest gas flows in Co . |
| 4 | Instead of lengthening their bodies , like the caecilians , they have shortened it , their vertebrae having become fused together , and far from losing their legs , they have developed them enormously , and some have become prodigious leapers . |
| 5 | ‘ After a longer period , donors and patients sometimes meet and some have become great friends . ’ |
| 6 | Some have become true friends , and I have spent several weekends away because of their thoughtfulness . |
| 7 | As a consequence some have suffered irreversible damage to their health . |
| 8 | Some have formulated flat-rate charges for certain services and many continue to do so . |
| 9 | No other country has pursued gas-cooled reactors so seriously , and though some have maintained indigenous designs , notably Canada and the Soviet Union , as many others have shifted to the most popular water-cooled model . |
| 10 | Some have received large capital grants to improve their buildings , while others have been able to put to good use the money which would normally be spent on local authority overheads . |
| 11 | Of sympatric species , those flowering together deposit pollen on different parts of the bat body , thus avoiding interspecific pollination , and some have staggered flowering times . |
| 12 | Most reviews concern departmental activities , although some have examined cross-departmental work ( such as government forms and property management ) . |
| 13 | Some have developed lusty connections with industries of one sort or another , and some have developed special international relationships . |
| 14 | Some have proposed other reasons for Planet X , blaming it for causing periodic comet showers and mass extinctions on Earth , or for stealing Pluto from Neptune and reversing the motion of Neptune 's satellite Triton . |
| 15 | Many men buffeted by fortune will reach retirement prematurely ; some have had great success to be followed by even greater failure . |
| 16 | Some of us have found the jobs we sought ; some have found renewed enthusiasm and enhanced skills for the search ; others are even now joining to take advantage of an organisation that is getting into its stride for greater efforts : but all of us send our very sincere thanks to all who have helped us when we needed them . |
| 17 | Some have found considerable levels of cross-class marriage in the nineteenth century ( Penn , 1985 ) and we might speculate that the concentration of female employment in the office brings women from diverse backgrounds together and blurs class lines as people seek partners . |
| 18 | Though they lack a shell , they are not entirely defenceless , for some have acquired secondhand weapons . |
| 19 | Most prefer market-seeking investments and few have created new exports . |
| 20 | The British have imported Dutch cattle for at least three centuries ( references go back to 1681 ) and initially they formed the basis of the famous Shorthorns . |
| 21 | Already 24 of the 64 units are let or in the hands of solicitors and another 22 have attracted specific applications . |
| 22 | Since April , 11 trainees have found jobs through the society and 12 have attained vocational qualifications . |
| 23 | Fires set to control weeds on degraded pastures also spread , particularly to selectively logged areas as in Para , Brazil , as the gaps left have tracks connecting them and plenty of fuel : such have had devastating effects in Borneo during seasonal droughts ( see section 2.2.2 ) . |
| 24 | For centuries , the Japanese have induced captive birds to sing their courtship songs out of season by using artificial light to lengthen the days , a method known as " yogai " . |
| 25 | Six have received senior contracts worth around £25,000 — Gooch , Alec Stewart , Robin Smith , Jack Russell , Phillip DeFreitas and Chris Lewis . |
| 26 | But of forty-nine ministers in Northern Ireland ( which includes one retired man and three students ) , only six have held elected office , only eleven in total have been office holders in the DUP , and only fifteen in total are members . |
| 27 | As expected , in trying to persuade you to take their shares , Anglo-Welsh have made great play of their recent growth in profits . |
| 28 | All three have denied attempted murder . |
| 29 | Whatever finally happens , NAB will sooner or later have to give detailed consideration to teacher education , for two reasons : it is responsible for advising on the funding of all public sector advanced further education , including teacher education ; and major elements in teacher education courses leading to the BEd , for example , are common or closely interlock with elements in courses leading to BA and BSc. |
| 30 | During the present century these have gained broad access to the policy process within the state . |