Example sentences of "[adj] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 2 | Page 30 NY cellular telephones : McCaw Cellular has bought the half stake owned in the New York cellular telephone franchise by Metromedia . |
| 3 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 4 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 5 | There is no women 's Utopia lurking in the shrubbery Although Labour has captured the election initiative on feminist issues , ROBIN LEE remains unconvinced . |
| 6 | While the criticism that Lévi-Strauss , structuralism emphasizes the synchronic at the expense of the diachronic has assumed the status of a critical truism , this in fact repeats the substance of his critique of Sartre , namely that the latter attempted to transform history into a space of synchronicity . |
| 7 | Roth Scientific has announced the Suprex MPS 22 SFE-SFC system . |
| 8 | The result is that , by and large , the fiscal has to take the case as the police have presented it ; he does not seize the opportunity to come into direct contact with the investigation and has little chance of finding out what the police have ignored . |
| 9 | Neil Garrie , head of corporate affairs for London Underground , said it was unavoidable having to contest the claim . |
| 10 | Okay , erm the quality of exam I mean there 'll be some people here who will feel embarrassed to have submitted the work that they 've written , right ? |
| 11 | As already stated , the defendant 's real defence was one of accident , but that did not dispense with the need for the judge to leave the issue of provocation to the jury if there was any evidence to justify that course ; and the defendant contended that the judge was wrong to have directed the jury that provocation did not arise for their consideration . |
| 12 | Furthermore it was in our judgment wrong to have discharged the jury . |
| 13 | Perhaps the consensus was that as Elfed had borne the burden , he had the right to make the decision . |
| 14 | The most reasonable assumption was that the French had pushed a cavalry raid across the frontier . |
| 15 | His job now was to let the allied headquarters know what he had seen : that the French had crossed the frontier and that the campaign had therefore begun . |
| 16 | But the Warblers , not noted as a team of bruisers , while less vociferous than Mr Bean , were adamant that the French had provoked the trouble . |
| 17 | The cavalry , seeing that the French had captured the bridge with an insolent ease , turned to follow the foot soldiers . |
| 18 | Years later , Acheson agreed in an interview that the French had blackmailed the US in Vietnam . |
| 19 | The value of tolls levied in the duchy was specifically alluded to in a memorandum of 1294 : the French had occupied the duchy , had seisin of péages and rents in Aquitaine , and therefore controlled most of it . |
| 20 | Fifteen months later , under the pretext that the English had broken the truce , the French invaded Normandy from several directions . |
| 21 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 22 | The English had removed the head of a king as early as 1649 , and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 could be interpreted as an example of Rousseau 's ‘ general will ’ of the people triumphing over the Divine Right of Kings . |
| 23 | By 1485 , the English had rebuilt the Esk fish trap , but again it was quickly destroyed by the Scots . |
| 24 | Between 1692 and 1747 the British had defeated the French at sea a number of times , but these battles could not eliminate the possibility that the French fleet would come out of port at a time of its own choosing and assist attacks on British colonies or an invasion of the British Isles . |
| 25 | Their prospects were hopeless because the British had developed a command of the sea that was much more effective than anything seen in earlier wars . |
| 26 | After the British had signed an armistice with the Vichy administration , a number of Gaullist " explosions " ( the most celebrated of which was a stormy interview between de Gaulle and the British minister of state in Cairo , Oliver Lyttelton ) forced a modification of the armistice terms so as to accommodate the General 's objections . |
| 27 | The wind and wet had sucked the warmth out of his blood and he shivered constantly . |
| 28 | Somebody very distinguished had played the part in the last London production . |
| 29 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
| 30 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |