Example sentences of "['s] [noun] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental groups have claimed that British Gas 's operations have caused damage to crops and game animals . |
| 2 | Cow 's milk had saved Patrick 's life , but when she gave it to Angel she became sick and feverish . |
| 3 | For a longer tour , you can explore the impressive outer towers , gatehouses and artillery works , and see how Dover 's defences have kept pace over the centuries . |
| 4 | In response , Swoon 's defenders have championed Kalin as a leading light of a ‘ New Queer Cinema ’ which is concerned with putting forward a more complex vision of gay and lesbian sexuality . |
| 5 | Yesterday David Rurka , managing director of Toys R Us , said that the council 's decision had put £30 million plans for Hillington and further stores at Stirling , Dundee and Aberdeen in jeopardy . |
| 6 | The new bills will save an average household £50 a year , but today 's decision has shocked county officials . |
| 7 | Chen spokesman Lee DeLorme told United Press International that negotiations are continuing with the city of Eau Claire for an aid package to base the company there , but that the state 's decision has prompted Chen to look to other states for aid as well . |
| 8 | All three of the boy 's half-brothers had had claims there . |
| 9 | In Jacobs v Wessex Regional Health Authority [ 1984 ] CLY 2618 the respondents were ordered to pay the costs in any event where the plaintiff 's solicitors had written letters to them referring to the reasonableness of their request for discovery , the relevant authorities and the saving in public expense from voluntary discovery to a legally aided plaintiff . |
| 10 | The Emperor would have been saddened to know that Bismarck 's manoeuvring had deceived Queen Victoria , who wrote to her daughter , the Crown Princess of Prussia , about ‘ … the unjustifiable conduct of the French … and need I say what I feel ? |
| 11 | Once Barry 's Mum had brought Barry with her and Mr Field , the dentist , had said they could go into the garden at the back . |
| 12 | However , in many authorities , especially the larger ones , the process of thinking about next year 's budget has begun months before . |
| 13 | Orion 's plans have caused consternation among Intelsat officials , who are worried that the craft could become the first of many operated by private companies to ‘ cream off ’ traffic from the lucrative telecommunications route between North America and Europe . |
| 14 | Since August 1980 the unit 's computer has identified visitors who overstay their permitted time in Britain by matching landing and embarkation cards . |
| 15 | The scribes he studies worked in the 14th century — 800 years after Dr Marchand 's Goths had relinquished Italy . |
| 16 | The weight his stepfather had put on the young man 's shoulders had made David seem much older than his twenty-eight years . |
| 17 | PRAGUE — An influential Czechoslovak economist , whose criticisms of the country 's stagnation have achieved cult status , returned from the Soviet Union to find his department dissolved and himself under threat of dismissal , writes Edward Lucas . |
| 18 | SADDAM HUSSEIN 'S defeat has given Iraq 's Kurds an unprecedented chance to win the autonomy — or independence — they have long sought . |
| 19 | When Blanche 's trunk has arrived Stanley looks through it to try to prove to Stella that Blanche has sold Belle Reve and bought herself pearls and diamonds and a huge selection of clothes . |
| 20 | ‘ When I read somewhere that Simon Cooper 's girlfriend had given birth to a son , I have to admit I was surprised , ’ Vitor said , with a glance at Thomas , who was engrossed in an item-by-item search of his toy box . |
| 21 | The High Court in Glasgow heard that the men had struggled after Mr Kerr 's girlfriend had attacked Cardow , accusing him of damaging her mother 's car . |
| 22 | The Welsh international has played out of his skin throughout the FA Cup campaign and just as John Byrne 's goals have carried Sunderland through Norman 's saves have undoubtedly kept them in . |
| 23 | Rather , the queen 's patronage had made interest in Duck a point of fashion . |
| 24 | Department 's programme has attracted support from major sponsoring agencies such as the British Council , the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the ESRC . |
| 25 | An insurance company 's agent had pocketed premiums paid to him by Haslip , so that she was unable to pay medical bills following hospitalization . |
| 26 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
| 27 | Huy realised too late that the man 's eyes had switched direction to focus on someone behind him . |
| 28 | Gazza 's condition had baffled experts at an animal sanctuary but now they say he could soon be just as spiny as any other hedgehog . |
| 29 | The marked deterioration in the position of the Russian peasant under Catherine 's rule has allowed historians to point the contrast between the enlightened ideals which she proclaimed and the oppressive despotism which she allegedly practised . |
| 30 | Just as Mrs Roselli 's almonds have become de rigueur at every decent bash , a new element is being made indispensable . |