Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN INCREASING demand for hypo-allergenic dairy products has led a Tayside woman to take the first tentative steps towards setting up what it is thought would be Britain 's only mare milking unit . |
| 2 | COUCH POTATO fans have launched an S.E.S … |
| 3 | FORECASTS of the highest tides for decades have prompted an Essex council to distribute flood warning leaflets to people living in low-lying areas . |
| 4 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 5 | Metallogenesis studies in south Devon have identified the role of basinal brines as mineralising agents , and rubidium/strontium isotope studies have established a Triassic age for the widespread lead-zinc-silver 'crosscourse' mineralisation . |
| 6 | Certain newspapers and television programmes have long enjoyed surname humour — the mid-wife called Miss Stork , the taxi-driver Mr Hanger — but few such features have unearthed a Mr England , Miss English or Mrs Albion whose character is , in some obscure way , an embodiment of the national one . |
| 7 | Burglars have stolen a Kawasaki generator , a transformer and an angle grinder worth £860 from a lockup garage in John Street , Darlington . |
| 8 | Burglars have stolen a Sega mega-drive games computer , three computer games and a video tape worth £240 from a house in Kielder Drive , Darlington . |
| 9 | Burglars have stolen a Panasonic television worth £400 , an Amstrad video recorder worth £200 and jewellery worth £600 from a house in The Broadway , Darlington . |
| 10 | Burglars have stolen a Panasonic microwave , a Commodore computer , two televisions , two video recorders , a Pioneer hi-fi , a Kenwood CD player , a carriage clock , Lladro figure and two Chinese plates worth £1,180 from a house in Burnside Road , Darlington . |
| 11 | The press could provide little enlightenment because all newspapers had received a D-Notice asking them not to print any details about the background to the case . |
| 12 | One of these doctors had consulted a Dr. D. who was the pre-eminent expert in the treatment of anorexic cases . |
| 13 | On June 29 , 1989 , West German police had raided a Düsseldorf company , Rheineisen Chemical Products GmbH , in connection with alleged shipments to Iran of chemicals capable of manufacturing mustard gas . |
| 14 | She said a third man being sought by the police had telephoned a Kirkby inspector and said he was sure the case would end because witnesses were not brave enough to give evidence . |
| 15 | At the Imperial War Museum , wartime historians have recreated a London street as it would have looked during the Blitz . |
| 16 | Few men have enjoyed a Wembley cup final day more than John Sillett . |
| 17 | Swindon Racing Engines have developed a Vauxhall Power Unit to take on the Japanese . |
| 18 | Swindon Racing Engines have developed a Vauxhall Power Unit to take on the Japanese . |
| 19 | For the last three years OUP 's text processing systems have used an ICL 2904 for its main processing with certain programs on a Burroughs B6800 . |
| 20 | The work of professional thieves has forced an Oxford College to close its doors to casual tourists . |
| 21 | The thieves had stolen a Mitsubishi Shogun from Neasham Road , Darlington , in the early hours . |
| 22 | But only days before Mr Sok Hay stood in front of his villa speculating on how much his property might be worth in the future , Khmer Rouge guerrillas had ambushed a Phnom Penh army patrol in the hills close by . |
| 23 | It was ironic that the union should be taking place on a day when Christian Democrats had tabled a Strasbourg motion condemning Mr Major 's refusal to sign the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 24 | Twenty one Welsh MPs have tabled a Commons motion protesting at the appointment of his secretary , Carolyn Jones , to a two-year job as a member of South Glamorgan Health Authority worth £5,000a-year for two days ' a month work . |
| 25 | Thieves have destroyed a Rolls Royce worth more than twenty seven thousand pounds by setting fire to it . |
| 26 | Thieves have stolen a Goodman CD player , 40 CDs and a camera in a burglary at a house in Claremont Road , Darlington . |