Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creature has uttered the direst of threats — not against my life , which is of little account , but against Elizabeth 's . |
| 2 | She realised he could provide her with some top-class partners and she has made the best of them . |
| 3 | The invitations to foreign races started coming in after he ran ‘ about 162 miles ’ in a 24-race in Chorley , and Zarei has made the most of them , often running ultra races consecutively and by doing so he has more than proved a point about his approach to running . |
| 4 | Amongst the newcomers are Llanelli 's Wayne Proctor and Swansea 's Simon Davies , both wings ( a position short of challengers recently ) , hooker Nigel Meek from Pontypool ( who has made the most of Garin Jenkins ’ move to Swansea ) , second row Paul Kawulok ( another who took the Hall and Griffiths trail from Bridgend to Cardiff ) and two sons of famous fathers , Richard Shaw ( Bridgend ) and Scott Quinnell ( Llanelli ) ; scions of Glyn and Derek respectively . |
| 5 | Saddam Hussein has made the most of it , has n't he really ? |
| 6 | The money raised by the medieval trustees responsible for the upkeep of the bridge was surplus to requirements , and enabled the bridge to become a landowner , in which capacity it has helped the poor of the town and built and maintained the old grammar school . |
| 7 | Monie , who has also coached Sydney side Parramatta to Grand Final glory , has produced the best of British beef in Wigan forwards Kelvin Skerrett , Andy Platt , Betts and Phil Clarke . |
| 8 | This Board , whose role is by no means a formality , as it has to vet every one of the artists shown at the exhibition , is now made up of people who reflect the old groupings : seven Christian Democrats , six Socialists , two PDS ( formerly Communist ) , one Liberal and one Social Democrat . |
| 9 | P. W. Conolly , when District Judge at Negombo , wrote that ‘ when parties quarrel and assault each other , it is no uncommon thing for the person who has got the best of the struggle to have an animal brought to the spot , and a charge of cattle stealing is preferred against the unfortunate man who has been assaulted . ’ |
| 10 | The UK distributor has performed the best of all overseas market , so well in fact that Aldus have set up a UK subsidiary . |
| 11 | The Scottish experience , most notably in Edinburgh , where the majority of drug injectors are believed to be infected by the virus ( Robertson et al .1986 ) , has sounded the shrillest of warnings . |
| 12 | KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award . |
| 13 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 14 | This last , which was published weekly from early February 1834 until the end of May , has become the best-known of Doherty 's publications and is the least personal of all of them . |
| 15 | It is easy to see why this has become the best-loved of all his works . |
| 16 | UNESCO , who has suddenly come alive , has invited the two of them to plan an experimental city in which new technologies and new ways of living can be explored more fully than they were in the real world . |
| 17 | The fisheries agency is running advertising and school campaigns promoting the health benefits of whale meat and has declared the ninth of every month to be " eating whale meat day " . |
| 18 | Fifth-placed man Liam O'Brien from East Cork AC has run every one of the 15 Ballycotton races and has never come outside the top five . |
| 19 | In a sport in which fitness is so crucial — Noel Coward once said it was ‘ not exercise , it 's flagellation ’ — Marshall has worked the hardest of his career , some four hours a day , building up strength not weight . |
| 20 | Harry Ramsden 's has taken a third of the equity of a new company , Bluelane , capitalised at £750,000 , which will manage the Hong Kong restaurant and franchise further outlets in the Pacific Rim area . |
| 21 | Partly because of the volume of this response and partly because of the radical nature of some of these proposals , going well beyond those envisaged in Partnership in Validation , the CNAA has allowed a few of the suggested procedures to be tried out on an experimental basis and while this is happening has virtually declared a moratorium on other ‘ special arrangement ’ proposals . |
| 22 | It is not schooling but a nasty little trick he has to get the better of me . |
| 23 | The country has lost a fifth of its mangrove swamps , and many that used to line estuaries are now confined to narrow stretches separating hectares of dyked shrimp ponds . |
| 24 | The Musée Rodin has published the last of six volumes cataloguing the artist 's drawings . |
| 25 | One has to make the best of a situation , after all . |
| 26 | He has shown the power of his arm , he has routed the proud of heart . |
| 27 | Dun & Bradstreet Software Corp has launched the first of its Unix applications from the former Management Science America base in Atlanta . |
| 28 | Ferguson Shipbuilders at Port Glasgow , which was rescued from closure three years ago , has launched the first of two ferries for the Red Funnel line . |
| 29 | MOSCOW 'S mayor , Yuri Luzhkov , has ordered the thousands of signs written in foreign languages in his city to be translated into Russian , Itar-Tass news agency said yesterday . |
| 30 | She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice . |