Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return for the group 's agreement to purchase and write off $4 million worth of Mexican debt from foreign creditors , the government has undertaken to carry out a $2.6 million programme of support for forest conservation efforts , with a particular focus on the Selva Lacandona , which is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in North America . |
| 2 | NORMAN Riddell , the chief executive of Capital House , the fund management arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has resigned to take up a similar position at Invesco-MIM . |
| 3 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 4 | The Lord Chancellor originally intended that lenders should be self-regulating , but since publishing the white paper he has decided to set up a new Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners ' Board , with consumer representatives , to police lenders offering conveyancing services . |
| 5 | The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests . |
| 6 | Second , the LEA must be informed if the head teacher has decided to exclude permanently a pupil excluded for a fixed or indefinite period . |
| 7 | A FATHER whose son was killed in a road accident has helped set up a support network in the North West for the families of other victims . |
| 8 | The Dutch government has helped to set up a national halons " bank " to ensure the most effective use of the chemicals . |
| 9 | At Guy 's Hospital the poisons unit has had to set up a psychiatric liaison service to help such patients . |
| 10 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |
| 11 | She is a bit upset that she has had to wait almost a year before receiving any income . |
| 12 | But Mel Gibson likes the treatment , which Letterman himself has had to work up a little . |
| 13 | Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days . |
| 14 | These are the terms implied in a contract where the supplier has agreed to carry out a service ( paragraph 8–09 above ) . |
| 15 | The Department of the Environment has agreed to set up a second air pollution monitoring station at Longlands College , Middlesbrough . |
| 16 | The US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has proposed setting up a system by which " permits to pollute " with sulphur dioxide ( SO2 ) could be traded among industrial plants . |
| 17 | Since taking over as Brazil 's manager on 6 January , Sebastiano Lazaroni has attempted to pull off a transformation that has hitherto seemed impossible in Brazilian football . |
| 18 | Already the opposition has united to set up a working group on immigration , with a view to formulating a new bill . |
| 19 | Scottish Roman Catholic priest James Morrow has pledged to take out a private prosecution for murder against the doctors . |
| 20 | Since replacing the former prime minister , Bob Hawke , in an inter-party challenge 14 months ago , Mr Keating has pledged to set up a panel of eminent Australians to study how the country could become a republic , with an Australian head of state , by 2001 . |
| 21 | THE UFF has admitted carrying out a bomb attack on the home of a Roman Catholic family in south Belfast . |
| 22 | With his first collection , completed for his MA at Central St Martins , Michael Udo has begun to cause quite a stir . |
| 23 | Further research has failed to turn up a single firm IBM Corp mainframe deal for this quarter anywhere across Europe , and the disk business is not going to save any IBM bacon either : word in leasing circles is that users are so averse to buying new disks that prices of used 3380Ks have risen by some 25% . |
| 24 | An inquest has failed to establish how a twenty six year old barman came to be found dead in his flat . |
| 25 | The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I , one of Britain 's largest engineering firms . |
| 26 | According to Milan Ramljak , President of the five-man Croatian Commission and lecturer in law at Zagreb University , in spite of the war and the absence of any help from the Federal Commission , Croatia has managed to collect together a large file of evidence , including soil sample analyses which may be significant when they can be compared with analyses of the treasure and the cauldron in which it was found . |
| 27 | THOUGH much smaller in numbers that it used to be , Courtaulds Italia has managed to weld together a team which blends experience with freshness . |
| 28 | Agassi has managed to sign up a licensing deal with Tecmagik and this looks like being the long-awaited definitive tennis game on Sega systems . |
| 29 | An aerospace company will hear tomorrow whether it has managed to fight off a takeover bid . |
| 30 | One of the region 's independent breweries has managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid — at least for the time being . |