Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] have [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford have Aston Villa at the Manor on Wednesday … it 's all ticket … and tomorrow is your last chance to get one … the box office is open all day … do n't miss it … next for us is the third division where Hereford are having a hard time |
| 2 | Its looking good for both Swindon and Oxford , but down in the third division Hereford are having a tough old time … they 're just four points and four places off the bottom of the table … on Saturday they missed out at Lincoln … they lost two-nil |
| 3 | Aston Villa are having a great run , but they hold no particular horrors for the Norwich players . |
| 4 | ‘ Antonio and Susanna are having a big party at their house in the Hamptons . |
| 5 | Gurder and Angalo were having a blazing row when Masklin got back . |
| 6 | Increasingly Hick is having the same problem at county level as bowlers realise a potential flaw . |
| 7 | Richard was having a lean time . |
| 8 | If David was to have a few drinks it would all come out . |
| 9 | What it did for David was have the same mushrooming effect , creating this balloon image of star power — all that staying at The Plaza and The Beverley Hills Hotel did . |
| 10 | The French had little room for manoeuvre , and in May 1358 a treaty known as the ‘ First Treaty of London ’ was drawn up , under which Edward was to have a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes . |
| 11 | Apart from the fact that there was trouble with one of the other directors — apparently Jefferson was having a high old time with his wife and , to add insult to injury , charging the hotel rooms to expenses — you may recall that Downton lost two very valuable contracts with players in tennis and golf . |
| 12 | If district councils in Northern Ireland are to have a meaningful role in promoting tourism and job creation within their areas , can the Secretary of State give us an assurance that he will ask the planners to deal more sympathetically with applications that have district council approval for facilities to cater for the tourists who are coming now and the many more that we expect in the future ? |
| 13 | If a scheme for Northern Ireland is to have a real chance of success , it must not only enjoy the support of a majority — it must enjoy also the acquiescence of most of the rest , a vivid illustration of the need for an adequate social foundation for any constitutional structure which is to enjoy even a modicum of success . |
| 14 | Gatting 's altercation with Shakoor Rana was to have a considerable effect on the West Indies Test rubber . |
| 15 | A series of agreements from 1898 onwards tried to channel the tension between the two powers along ‘ Manchuria for Korea ’ lines , i.e. Russia was to have the dominant interest in Manchuria , while Japan dominated in Korea . |
| 16 | Presumably , thought Thiercelin , the defenders of Telnitz were having a harder time , but there was no way of communicating with them . |
| 17 | Being designed by a small three-man team , financial and organizational support needs to be forthcoming if BSO is to have an assured future . |
| 18 | Country star Billy Ray Cyrus is having a good ol' stay in the big city . |
| 19 | Rupert 's having a nice time after school cleaning the desks . |
| 20 | The subject was Alexander the Great , and Paul Scofield was to have the leading part . |
| 21 | The lesser main road from Twycross to the local market-town of Ashby de la Zouch was to have a minimum width of twenty-two yards ; and the other roads of the parish were to be ‘ of a proper width ’ . |
| 22 | Benjamin and Edith were to have no fewer than nine daughters in all , three dying in infancy , and just one son . |
| 23 | This does not mean as some modern writers have assumed — that Richard and Philip were having a homosexual affair . |
| 24 | He had explained to her mother how it was an innovation for Hoggatt 's having a clerical officer on the desk instead of a junior police officer . |
| 25 | Mr Antonis is having a hard time getting his message of openness across to all the citizens of Antwerp . |
| 26 | Batty was having a serious confrontation with Alan Byrne in midfield Byrne won the first half . |
| 27 | We left 406 in October 1943 , and that was the last I heard of them until I received my Spring 1991 issue of Air Mail when I spotted that 406 Sqn were having a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion in earlyh May at Shearwater Forces Base , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia . |
| 28 | Manager Atkinson said : ‘ I thought QPR were having the better of the first half until Deano did what he 's good at — scoring a goal when there is not really anything on . |
| 29 | Marathon running … for the first time ever Nepal is having a big race … |
| 30 | Since all the speculators , mainly companies , have left the market and real collectors are waiting to buy until the market bottoms out , galleries in the Ginza are having a difficult time selling any painting which costs more than $80,000 . |