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

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1 Admit it when you do n't know the answer or have made a mistake
2 For example , the employees that he takes over may have more generous terms of employment than his existing staff , or the vendor may have a collective agreement with or have recognised a trade union .
3 Students are not eligible under this scheme if they : have not been ordinarily resident within the European Community for the three years preceding the start of their course at the University ; or are on an exchange programme where fees are waived ; or have attended a course normally lasting more than two years and have received a UK statutory award for this study .
4 They elect or have appointed a person who chairs the meeting .
5 If you are able to balance straights yourself or have asked a nutritionist to do it for you all well and good , but for the horse owner with little or no experience in feeding , compound feeds are the answer .
6 Those who hold or have held a professorship in the British Isles are not eligible , and any publications cited or listed in connection with a previous successful candidature for an RSC award will not considered by the assessors .
7 At this year 's Chelsea Flower show , a group of prisoners walked off with a silver medal for a garden display.And at the prison itself , they 've been busy creating borders and features that have turned a jail into an oasis of colour .
8 Examples of such housing were built in Europe in the 1940s , but when it came to the public sector imitations in this country , narrowness of concep-tion and meanness in execution translated the idea into the publicly owned slabs and boxes that have become a feature of the landscape in our major cities ( McDowell , 1983 ) .
9 Police yesterday disarmed a parcel bomb at a black human rights office in Florida , the latest in a rash of mail bombings in the South that have killed a judge and a civil rights lawyer .
10 ‘ He 's had trouble with campers , who 've broken down his fences and left fires that have caused a lot of damage — not Guides or Scouts , of course , who you know are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks but he puts all campers together and calls them all nuisances . ’
11 In the first instance , MAS will search our computerised register of some [ specify number ] acquisitive clients and contacts to identify companies that have expressed a desire to expand in your industry .
12 ‘ Specially Chosen Music ’ refers to particular pieces of music that have inspired a choreographer and whose score has been interpreted by the choreographer as it stands , the composer 's scheme and continuity unchanged .
13 Finance for books , previously received for students aged 16 to 18 from the local authority , is likely to become a less frequent feature of the scene , and its absence will have a particular impact in those areas that have adopted a system of wholly tertiary colleges .
14 Those that have lost a share of their markets to cheap competition from Britain and Italy , whose currencies have fallen since leaving the ERM , will think three times .
15 He says the otters that have swallowed a lot of oil may be so ill there 's nothing that can be done .
16 Here fish live that have developed a method of finding their way about that no other creature so far has emulated .
17 Countries that have developed a taste for gas-guzzling machinery are certain to find it difficult to turn back to animal power .
18 Cabinet in Rome rebuilt in a day ITALY 'S Prime Minister , Giuliano Amato , reshuffled three key cabinet posts yesterday as he struggled to keep his government afloat after bribery scandals that have cut a swathe through the Italian political class .
19 Much of this support could be gained from voluntary befriending schemes , single parent advice groups and possibly the kinds of ‘ divorce workshops ’ that have gained a degree of popularity in American mental health centres .
20 These pores have been occluded by halite cement ( scale bar 1 mm ) ( B ) and ( C ) Irregular patch ( B ) and vein ( C ) of halite that have replaced a carbonate mudstone from Rustenburg-l .
21 Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success .
22 right that have got a bit of a niche round about five o'clock from bloody Amsterdam and we 're getting shafted .
23 Erm so if you just remember try and remember the ones that have got a K.
24 It does , however , cover the main theories that have attracted a following in the twentieth century .
25 Some students have been placed in difficulties by local authorities that have set a community charge that is so far beyond the reach of people that even the 20 per cent .
26 The book was conceptually too demanding , but it gave a young , reluctant reader new expectations that have lasted a lifetime .
27 There are places that have introduced a ban on advertising .
28 They also keep children 's books from the same era , particularly ones with titles that have acquired a Viz -like smuttiness across the ages , such as Scouts In Bondage , Dick 's Chum and Courtney 's Choice .
29 We have been taking slow steps towards that goal and have faced a number of barriers along the way .
30 Q I can knit in double jacquard and have made a couple of garments , but would very much like to knit a single motif .
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