Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were at rest just now , as if Daine were pausing in his expansion or had met some unforeseen check . |
| 2 | Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute . |
| 3 | Many of the studies that do exist have been small scale or have had some other issue , such as integration , as their key focus , referring to welfare assistance either in passing or as a subsidiary concern . |
| 4 | In practice this is likely to mean those schools which are already participating in school improvement schemes or have shown some other indication of an ability to grapple with problems . |
| 5 | In practice this is likely to mean those schools which are already participating in school improvement schemes or have shown some other indication of an ability to grapple with problems . |
| 6 | Anorexia nervosa patients seem unable to identify and to respond accurately to their emotional state , a deficit that has received some empirical support . |
| 7 | This is a style of abuse that has excited some natural envy among professional satirists . |
| 8 | Mr Coleridge inherits a market that has made some sensible moves to improve its competitive edge . |
| 9 | We will end the neglect that has allowed some former patients to end up sleeping rough and led to others being placed on remand . |
| 10 | The early Byzantine pendants and a necklace that had graced some medieval nobleman 's wife . |
| 11 | It was the cars that had started some new idea … |
| 12 | The Environmental Investigation Agency ( EIA ) , a British conservation group , has made a close study of the wildlife trade and has revealed some horrific transport practices . |
| 13 | ( from Jerry Arnull , 10pp ; £1 + 30p p&p ) — Summary , from limited records , of a felicitous cricket week which began in 1933 and has seen some fine performances . |
| 14 | He is the one who paid the money for them and has made some bad mistakes , e.g. Mo Johnston , Paul Rideout , Alan Harper and Barry Horne . |
| 15 | My wife Jeannie , however , makes jewellery and has made some lovely bits and pieces from my gold ( mind you , she is a perfectly capable panner and often finds her own ! ) . |
| 16 | Jeremy Lewison , Deputy Keeper of the Tate Gallery 's Modern Collection and author of a new monograph ( Phaidon Press , 1992 , £17.95 ) , is guest curator and has selected some forty-five paintings and reliefs as well as twenty-five etchings from the series published by Francois Lafranca in 1965–68 . |
| 17 | As usual the author traces the history of the stations from their earliest days , 1891 in the case of Pwllheli , and has located some early photographs including one of the unusual ‘ tubular ’ lifeboat which served at this station on the Lleyn Peninsula for a short time after it was first opened . |
| 18 | She 's a student at Dundee University and has had some brilliant fund raising ideas amongst her friends at the University and she 's here sitting in the front row . |
| 19 | The RTC has tenaciously pursued the auditors of practically every failed thrift , and has won some spectacular rulings . |
| 20 | Sun Microsystems has spent the last year revamping its American resellers program and has de-authorised some 900 low value add locations for not making the kind of long-term commitment and investment it believes is necessary to a sound business model . |
| 21 | Dynasty is one of many and has enjoyed some huge ratings . |
| 22 | TOP Tips continue to come in and have attracted some 13,000 points to date . |
| 23 | The Lusaka casualty was originally owned by Pan American and had accumulated some 54 000 flying hours with that company before it was sold to Dan Air , and then a further 2000 flying hours were added before the accident occurred . |
| 24 | Portraying himself as political outsider , Perot had become a beneficiary of the current anti-incumbent mood of the electorate , and had received some impressive opinion poll ratings . |
| 25 | Prior to its involvement in the ESSE/L Project , School G had already developed its library resources and had nurtured some significant resource-assisted curriculum initiatives . |
| 26 | He had destroyed bedroom furniture , tipped Coca-Cola into the video recorder , broken mirrors , and had lit some small fires . |
| 27 | He was reputed to have a lightning start and had had some close races with Allan Wells . |
| 28 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 29 | One of his relations worked there , and had found some old warship with one magazine still loaded with the explosive . |
| 30 | One of Tony 's friends , Robin Whiteford , had been fishing in Sutherland and had caught some nice fish , including salmon and sea-trout . |