Example sentences of "[be] [verb] have [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Assessment of the PhD/MPhil is by thesis and viva voce In addition candidates are expected to have published a review or preliminary research findings and contributed to research seminars .
2 The Gothic , a more formidable opponent , might have been expected to have had a greater impact on the depiction of fictional living space .
3 Police who searched the house of Baland in Blois after his arrest are reported to have found a wide range of forgeries including four Chagall drawings , four works by Dérain , ten by Dufy , two by Jean Cocteau , a Camille Pissarro and eighteen drawings described as being by ‘ Maîtres de l'école de Pont-Aven ’ .
4 The growth of home ownership even among the less well off in Britain has been said to have created a ‘ corps of working-class capitalists , a new type of property-owning bourgeoisie … . ’
5 He had swum against the tide at a time when schools to which specific counsellor appointments had previously been made had used a counsellor 's vacancy , at a time of teaching staff reductions , for other purposes .
6 The economic recession during which this book has been written has seen a reduction in merger mania but one can almost guarantee that this will be a temporary blip in the inexorable progress towards higher and higher profits .
7 Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write .
8 Newspapers in North America suffered in the recession , but paid-for regional papers in the UK are said to have had a good year .
9 Thousands are said to have signed a Memorial to the Board of Trade abhorring the notion of the Shipping Offices , of " oppressive taxation inasmuch as British seamen are ticketed and numbered like slaves " and complaining " of an unconstitutional violation of the rights and liberties of freeborn Englishmen … to which no other class of Englishmen is subjected " .
10 Most of that will go on delivering the programmes er and most of that is existing funding and so we 're going to have to use a lot of it on that , but we want to do new things as well .
11 If he 's been used to lads ' nights out each week , and football practice on Sundays , you 're going to have to reach a compromise .
12 What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high .
13 It 's no use going home on Friday night and going erm , I 've only got five appointments , you 're self-employed , it means you 're going to have to work a couple of hours extra .
14 If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development .
15 ‘ You 're going to have to have a fairly visible presence there for quite a while to put the authoritarian opponents on notice that we mean business . ’
16 Now you ca n't actually park by casualty 's door , you 're going to have to park a little bit before that .
17 You 're going to have to develop a more ecological outlook .
18 McDunn does n't want to charge me with any of the other murders but they 're going to have to make a decision before too long because my initial time under the PTA is nearly up and the Home Secretary is n't going to grant an extension ; I 'll have to appear in court soon .
19 I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run .
20 In England , the restrictive social and occupational background from which almost all senior judges have been drawn has provided a fertile medium in which an alternative and extremely powerful indigenous judicial culture has been able to develop .
21 I am going to have to write a letter of explanation to the Prime Minister .
22 Of the seven or so countries that secretly have ( in South Africa 's case , had ) nuclear weapons or are close to having them , only three are thought to have conducted a test .
23 No matter how much you speed up the entry into London at some point in time you are going to have to create a jam .
24 ‘ It is better for us to say we are going to have to institute a series of strict priorities .
25 Some of them are going to have to puzzle a little bit hard .
26 But before that the Royals are going to have to endure a disturbing time .
27 If you are in your late teens or are doing a further education course and you are extremely worried about examinations , you are going to have to find a way to tackle academic stress that does not involve eating and drinking too much .
28 Newcastle are understood to have made a £500,000 bid for Viscaal , in Holland 's squad for last night 's game in Turkey .
29 Police are understood to have found a knife embedded in the body of Derek Clazie , 25 , of Tweedmouth , in Berwick , who was discovered unconscious in a pool of blood on the Highcliffe Estate in Spittal .
30 For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate .
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