Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , the life-history technique has had a revival in sociological research , being used by those who wish to develop ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 2 | It must be sensible to delay breeding until the mare has had a chance to prove herself as a sound , willing ride . |
| 3 | The Führer has had a bunker constructed below the Chancellery . |
| 4 | Since the nineteen fifties each base has had a side . |
| 5 | Helpfully , the council added that : ‘ It should be pointed out that this action would be taken against all allotment holders , whether or not any individual holder has had a bonfire prior to the service of a notice . |
| 6 | Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk . |
| 7 | Primarily the computer has to have a graphics capability , preferably monochrome and as high a resolution as possible . |
| 8 | Gary ‘ Wash and Go ’ Speed has had a Roy Keane-ish haircut |
| 9 | The Irish Bank Officials ' Association has had a claim outstanding since then and it has now reached the stage of the Labour Court . |
| 10 | The Opposition has had a field day with the charges of betrayal it could with so much justification fling at the Government over broken election promises . |
| 11 | A fourteen-year-old offender who 's had three holidays in Spain this year at tax payers ' expense has had a court case adjourned because he 's being interviewed by the police on other matters . |
| 12 | After six months , when the new employee has had a chance to settle in and learn the ropes , make a thorough and honest assessment of how well she/he is fulfilling the requirements . |
| 13 | Speaking of regulars , the comp complex has had a letter from G Douglas Vaisey pointing out what we all know , viz that ‘ the compers club is a mite exclusive ’ . |
| 14 | Amstrad Plc 's Personal Digital Assistant due for launch on Thursday sounds like a pretty hot property : the Daily Mail has had a sneak preview , and says that it is a £300 device that fits a jacket pocket with a pen-enabled screen on which the user can write notes and draw pictures that can be dumped onto a personal computer — ‘ looks good , feels good and is very clever ’ says the guy that saw it . |
| 15 | Local and national sports bodies have also objected on the grounds that the scheme would take away open space that could be used as a public sports field for a town which the National Playing Fields Association says has a shortage of open space . |
| 16 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 17 | Get granddad did have a look at his ears but erm he just had to dropped it erm |
| 18 | Prepared in only a few weeks to satisfy an urgent need for cash on the part of Steinitz , who is building an auction house complex at Saint Ouen in the suburbs of Paris , the auction did have a catalogue covering 352 major items but without printed estimates . |
| 19 | On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road . |
| 20 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 21 | Breach of this provision would normally lead to expulsion , if only to pre-empt the possibility of a creditor seeking to have a receiver appointed . |
| 22 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 23 | NEC Corp plans to have a wireless digital terminal based on AT&T Co 's Hobbit chip on the Japanese market in September . |
| 24 | People from the South tend to have a lot of outmoded ideas about service . |
| 25 | WP What do you think of the notion that much of the poetry produced in Eastern Europe as ‘ dissident ’ poetry has had a kind of easy ride because of its political context ? |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has had a number of discussions with the Council of Mortgage Lenders and others , and he will be announcing a package of measures later this afternoon . |
| 27 | The problem had arisen because the first plan used had a river running through the property — what no-one had realised was that the course of the river had changed , leaving a piece of land unconveyed . |
| 28 | Buttonhook has had a history of epics — possibly 5b ? |
| 29 | The whole effect is as if an aftermarket body-kit specialist has had a go at embellishing a 911 , with the predictable result . |
| 30 | But the council has had a change of heart and is now looking at ways of funding the event . |