Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the Festival 's six major themes is that of ‘ Recreation and Sport ’ and the Scottish Sports Council through Actionsport Scotland has undertaken to organise a daily programme of sports activities . |
| 2 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 3 | For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve . |
| 4 | She has come to help a diocesan Franciscan order here . |
| 5 | ( ii ) Teachers should explain how Standard English has come to have a wide social and geographical currency and to be the form of English most frequently used on formal , public occasions and in writing . |
| 6 | For over five years , news from CCG has come under the banner What 's Cooking ? , but as the company has grown to include a wide range of other services as well as catering , we felt that title was no longer appropriate . |
| 7 | From a family firm with some 2,000 employees in 1966 , the group has grown to become a public company comprising nine factories employing around 6,000 people at home and overseas . |
| 8 | In general , BC 's stewardship of the land is poor , with areas in which it has operated having a depressed and unkept appearance . |
| 9 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 10 | Ollier and Pain ( 1981 ) consider an interesting case of an apparent diapir of gneiss that has risen to create a major domal landform . |
| 11 | She has applied to do a nursing degree . |
| 12 | THE GOVERNMENT has moved to defuse a growing row over its plan to introduce foreign language teaching for all Scottish primary pupils . |
| 13 | Anyone who has struggled to remove a rear tractor tyre or large trailer tyre will be pleased to see a new American innovation which eases the task . |
| 14 | Standing on the step was Father James Morrow , the Roman Catholic priest and pro-life activist who has threatened to bring a private prosecution for murder against the anguished couple if their son is allowed to die . |
| 15 | A priest has threatened to launch a private prosecution against the doctor who treated the Hillsborough coma victim , Tony Bland , who died after his life-support machine was legally switched-off . |
| 16 | Mr Töpfer has threatened to apply a similar scheme to car manufacturers and to the makers of electronic goods , such as computers and television sets . |
| 17 | Greenpeace has threatened to seek a judicial review if a full public inquiry into the need for the plant is not held . |
| 18 | But now the company has decided to create a single European headquarters . |
| 19 | Our church has decided to erect a new building so that worship may continue on the present site . |
| 20 | AR-WACC has decided to establish a computerised communication data bank for the Region . |
| 21 | British Rail has decided to have a dedicated , high-quality link between the stations and is examining a number of options effectively to make Euston part of the international terminal complex . |
| 22 | The Greek government has decided to build a massive complex of dams to divert the Akheloos River , endangering protected wetland areas which host thousands of wading birds including several endangered species . |
| 23 | He , too , has decided to keep a public silence . |
| 24 | He has sought to make a political attack on me , and I shall reply in the same way because the right hon. Gentleman has been highly selective in his summary of the case . |
| 25 | Faced with this ambiguity , the Bank has sought to make a clear distinction between its money-market operations ( for purposes of monetary policy ) and its bond-market operations ( for purposes of meeting the government 's borrowing requirement ) . |
| 26 | Whether in its truest sense — the sale of state-owned assets — or the conversion of ownership from an institution 's members to a new breed of shareholders , privatisation has made profiteering a respectable way of life . |
| 27 | It has helped to create a new generation of seriously wealthy individuals and the establishment of a tax system geared to entrepreneurs . |
| 28 | Where the decline of British engineering has diminished the industrial base and opened a black hole in the trade balance , the growth of German engineering output , matching that in Japan and America , has helped create a near impregnable manufacturing trade surplus . |
| 29 | In his only digression from prepared remarks , Francisco Rodriguez said : ‘ The government today has had to control a new attempt at subversion frustrated by the will of our people and of our armed forces to wage struggle . ’ |
| 30 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |