Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It had the dubious merit of illustrating the spirit which has pervaded his campaign against Daniel Stewart 's and Melville College in Edinburgh since last June .
2 To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ .
3 It was published in America in 1974 , translated by Peter Kussi , who has revised his translation for the new edition of 1986 which I am discussing here .
4 In any case , Anderson has revised his judgment of England 's intellectual culture .
5 At least for the moment , the Conservative government has wrecked its popularity by pursuing misconceived projects such as the poll tax .
6 The Institute Investigation Committee has delayed its decision on whether to proceed with disciplinary action over Clark Whitehill 's alleged involvement in the Nicholas Young fraud .
7 Helen Harvey of the Lord Todd has received her presentation for ten years with CCG .
8 As Stalin scornfully put it , ‘ the bourgeoisie of Finland … by a strange confluence of circumstances has received its independence from the hands of a socialist Russia ’ .
9 A soldier who risked his life to save children wounded in a mortar attack in Bosnia has received his MBE from the Queen .
10 has developed her love of bowls since being introduced to the sport eight years ago by workmate .
11 Written eight years ago for Gidon Kremer and much revised since then , it has developed its shape from the pressure of the emotions within it and , in spite of the obvious parallel with Berg 's Violin Concerto , is fundamentally like no other .
12 Written eight years ago for Gidon Kremer and much revised since then , it has developed its shape from the pressure of the emotions within it and , in spite of the obvious parallel with Berg 's Violin Concerto , is fundamentally like no other .
13 The Archive has developed its collaboration with government departments , first initiated through the Archive 's work in disseminating the Department of Employment 's Joint Unemployment Vacancy Office Statistics ( JUVOS ) to Local Authorities , with work on the dissemination of census data to schools and , very recently , the construction of a Rural Areas Database sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture , the Department of the Environment , and a number of public agencies .
14 ‘ This has developed my liking for theatre and I am much more aware of theatre issues than before . ’
15 He has developed his sport into an art and never stops fishing .
16 Already Manchester City keeper Andy Dibble has broken his leg in pre-season , so has a German keeper .
17 Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol .
18 The music of Throwing Muses has inhabited my flesh like a cold flame these past six months .
19 In it he said that man 's control over the world — steam , explosives , atoms and space — has outrun his power over himself to use that command wisely .
20 Wang , the computer company , has stopped its sponsorship of the Leinster senior league competition in protest at the Irish RFU 's links with the South African Rugby Board 's centenary celebrations this summer .
21 If anything in the Amis corpus has validated his penchant for the poison dart , it was last year 's Memoirs : indiscreet , at times indefensible , but nevertheless a book to leave you giddy with laughter .
22 The ERM has proven its value over many years .
23 Experience of recession in the 1980s has redirected our attention to a longer-term temporal pattern in economic events , which was first applied to nineteenth century international change .
24 The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances .
25 The environmental group Greenpeace has halted its campaign against seal hunting by Greenlanders , saying it is not opposed to the hunting or the sale of sealskin coats from the Danish territory .
26 Her apparent cry of anguish last week that John Major has treated her legacy without due reverence is not convincing ; the old bat cares nothing for the well-being of the Conservative Party or indeed Conservative government .
27 For example , Sulmac , the Kenyan subsidiary of Unilever , controls about one third of Kenya 's exports of carnations to Europe and has limited its integration to combining cultivation with warehousing and agency operations in the buying markets .
28 Britain is seen as having surrendered power to the Common Market in a way that has limited our freedom of manoeuvre and turned us into a colony of an embryonic West European federal state .
29 The Asdex tokamak at Garching in West Germany has what is known as a ‘ poloidal divertor ’ and holds the record for the duration of a plasma in a tokamak — Asdex has sustained its plasma for 10 seconds .
30 It is a text which explores the pain and grief caused by having one 's desires destroyed by the pressures of social convention and it is this set of emotions which has sustained its reputation in gay subcultures .
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