Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren Pearce 's Sapphire 1.8 LX has racked up a remarkable 112,000 miles in four years without missing a beat — and without regular servicing |
| 2 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 3 | She has received quite an unpleasant shock . ’ |
| 4 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 5 | Over the years Beverley has taught nearly a hundred people how to make monoclonal antibodies in their laboratories . |
| 6 | Neal Zaslaw has pointed out a semantic correspondence to this : in German usage , the difference between ‘ old-fashioned church practices ’ and opera/concert practice ( dual-system ) was manifest in the two words tactieren ( literally , ‘ giving the tactus ’ ) and dirigieren . |
| 7 | This situation — where one man , eminent as he is , nevertheless has to carry out a huge amount of work effectively on his own , mirrors the two previous demutualisations — is a situation many believe should not have been repeated . |
| 8 | The Rangers Service has to carry out a fine balancing act — too many visitors could destroy the very habitat the rangers are trying to conserve . |
| 9 | A coroner 's court has heard how a fifteen year old anti-hunt demonstrator was crushed to death by a horsebox . |
| 10 | An inquest has heard how a fifteen year old girl died in a fall from her horse — even though she was wearing a recommended safety helmet . |
| 11 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 12 | Associated American Artists has gathered together a representative group of this work in a show called ‘ Rufino Tamayo — seventeen years at the Mixografia workshop ’ . |
| 13 | To complement this wonderful collection of textiles the Gordon Reece Gallery has amassed over a thousand old and rare examples of jewellery from many of the great Tribal craft traditions of the world . |
| 14 | C & w World has to pull together a huge number of companies under the umbrella of the parent group , including Hong Kong Telecom and an 80 per cent share of Mercury in the UK . |
| 15 | Mirroring Sun Microsystems Inc 's efforts in this area ( UX No 386 ) Hewlett-Packard Co has rolled out a new range of ISDN connectivity enabling standalone workstations to communicate over public or private ISDN networks . |
| 16 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
| 17 | A female emperor moth , in a cage in a wood , transmitting a perfume undetectable to our nostrils , has attracted over a hundred huge males from the surrounding countryside within three hours . |
| 18 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 19 | To see this is to recognize the stylistic value of Golding 's choice : that his version of the event is of movements perceived in space and time , from which the reader has to work out a normal understanding of what is happening . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) . |
| 21 | Tadpole US has picked up a new president , Kenneth Cannizzaro , previously the firm 's director of business development : he 's responsible for operations and market expansion in the Americas and the Pacific Rim . |
| 22 | The BBC has picked up a similar trend . |
| 23 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 24 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 25 | He has come back a wiser player and he will add drive to the team . ’ |
| 26 | It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth 's surface . |
| 27 | The Royal Brompton has carried out a mere four heart-lung transplants this year . |
| 28 | Stemberger ( 1984 ) has carried out a recent study of lexical errors produced by normal adult native speakers of English in natural speech settings . |
| 29 | The Girls and Mathematics Unit has carried out a substantial number of project on girls ' classroom performance in Mathematics , spanning nursery to secondary schools . |
| 30 | Its authors are well qualified : Robin Callander was specialist adviser to the Agriculture Select Committee and is partner in a small estate near Braemar , while Neil MacKenzie has carried out a major preview of Scotland 's native woodlands . |