Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A server would n't be a server without a big hard drive and Dan has chosen to fit a Seagate ST1401 , a 320Mb SCSI hard disk . |
| 2 | But Allan has failed to pinpoint a problem and believes the heavy ground was to blame . |
| 3 | Since the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act , which made this possible , CPRW has continued to take a keen interest in ensuring that the protection afforded by this designation is effectively applied , especially in the three National Parks of Wales . |
| 4 | Since retiring , Bill Newton has helped run a charity in support of Romanians … particularly the children . |
| 5 | Jim has gone to meet a friend of his who is supposed to be coming from Liverpool . |
| 6 | Rather more officially , Radio Moscow has started to sell a faxed information service of its own , using leased Japanese equipment . |
| 7 | Paul Baker has had to do a lot of work on his own up front and he will benefit more than most from Lenny 's arrival . |
| 8 | I think Sussex has got to find a new , new hat , and got to express itself and demonstrate that it is in no sense relying on twenty five years of erm of erm fairly high reputation that the next twenty five years and the next twenty five years after that are just as challenging , perhaps even more so . |
| 9 | Queen drummer Roger Taylor has volunteered to organise a super-group for a concert on Ibiza next summer , while impresario Cameron Mackintosh has donated his musical ‘ Five Guys Named Moe ’ for a one-off performance on September 17 on the island . |
| 10 | Since the EEC first voted against the imports , in December , West Germany has decided to impose a ban regardless of the final vote . |
| 11 | LASMO has agreed to sponsor a team of ten players to take part in the third annual Brain Game . |
| 12 | Each NIC has attempted to develop a broad industrial base to satisfy domestic demand and diversify exports so as to reduce reliance on a few major primary commodities , e.g. coffee , meat , rubber . |
| 13 | STOKE forward Wayne Biggins has refused to sign a new contract unless he gets an immediate pay rise . |
| 14 | Mr Shekhar has managed to avoid a diplomatic row with America by quietly persuading President Bush to withdraw his request for permission . |
| 15 | Rosenberg had hoped to earn a living from his portraits , but that year he learned that his lungs were weak and was advised to seek a warmer climate . |
| 16 | Although Haworth had intended to make a career in the chemical industry , he won a scholarship which enabled him to go to Gottingen for postgraduate work . |
| 17 | The flight to the desert which Antony had begun became a flood during the fourth and fifth centuries . |
| 18 | The PLO had failed to secure a halt to the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories as a pre-condition to Palestinian participation in any peace conference — a demand also made by pre-conference negotiators Ashrawi and Husseini and repeatedly rejected by Shamir . |
| 19 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 20 | Wright had threatened to complete a unique Wembley double for his team by heading Arsenal in front after 21 minutes with his 29th goal of the season . |
| 21 | 87 MINUTES : Kiwomya slipped the ball past the advancing Flowers after Monkou had tried to head a long ball from Guentchev back to his keeper . |
| 22 | Surere had managed to obtain a wig that rose high on the crown and fell heavily over the back and shoulders . |
| 23 | They said Hegel had had to become a newspaper editor , a schoolmaster . |
| 24 | Unfortunately the third sentence sends us reeling back to square one in terms of methodological confusion : we are now told that just because Keynes had tried to provide a theoretical underpinning for the concept of involuntary unemployment does not , ipso facto , oblige subsequent theorists to ‘ 'explain ’ the theoretical constructs of our predecessors ' . |
| 25 | The next morning , the crowd scenes were repeated in the shoe shop to which Ken had gone to buy a pair of sandals . |
| 26 | Sometimes she would be invited to her sister 's house , but not too often now , because it must be admitted that with the passing of the years Aunt Nessy had come to look a little eccentric . |
| 27 | The psychologist commented that Balbinder had liked having a reading book and clearly wanted to read but when it came to reading he did not understand what he was doing but relied on guessing . |
| 28 | Balbinder had had to do a lot of puzzles . |
| 29 | President Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev have agreed to hold a summit in America at the end of May . |
| 30 | Physiotherapists in the United States have begun taking a form of mobile weight-training apparatus to old age homes . |