Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lansink is the only rider who has jumped double clear rounds in the first four contests designated for the Everest Challenge . |
| 2 | Crime prevention has received increasing recent attention from researchers and policy makers . |
| 3 | Gerry O'Connor , whose recent CD ‘ Time to Time ’ has received great critical acclaim , is regarded as one of Ireland 's finest young generation fiddle players , while Máirtín O'Connor , formerly with De Danann , is simply outstanding on accordion . |
| 4 | However it must be worth trying to do so especially if a senior employee has received independent legal advice before entering the agreement and has been specifically compensated ( as is common in the USA ) for accepting the restraint . |
| 5 | The plan has received widespread international support and projects of a similar kind are being instigated in Australia , the United States and throughout Europe . |
| 6 | The cold-blooded murder of a hospitalisation case has aroused great public indignation . |
| 7 | ARC 's application has aroused strong local opposition in a neighbourhood already devastated by quarrying , so it is important that there should be no confusion as to the venue of the inquiry . |
| 8 | The show has aroused considerable scholarly debate over all the fields of the artist 's activities and the closing symposium in London generated lively discussion on questions of attribution and dating . |
| 9 | On occasions rural depopulation has aroused considerable public concern and has even been represented as a draining away of the nation 's life-blood , to the detriment of the national character and vigour . |
| 10 | The different dimensions of bureaucracy need to be specified if the object of the exercise is to see whether a state with corporatist features has developed distinctive administrative qualities . |
| 11 | The study … breaks the conspiracy of silence which has shielded so-called progressive education from criticisms that people like the Black Paper writers and myself have been making for years , that standards were falling because of non-structured learning and a lack of curriculum , discipline and order . |
| 12 | Whale ( 1977 , p. 80 ) has justified unregulated commercial control of the press by arguing that ‘ a newspaper controlled by a commercial group writes inhibitedly about a handful of concerns at most ; a paper owned by the state , the effective alternative , would be guarded in its outlook on whole areas of the national life ’ . |
| 13 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 14 | And if the agency subsequently has to treat other similar dischargers equally , Blake is concerned about a cumulative deterioration in water quality . |
| 15 | The establishment of common exchange visits focusing on mutual recognition of professional qualifications , and the academic and professional development of inter-European ‘ live projects ’ has highlighted massive potential job opportunities . |
| 16 | The sixth company has undertaken systematic formal investigations twice in recent years but does not produce a regular list of key environmental issues . |
| 17 | He has undertaken huge legal costs . |
| 18 | WEDGWOOD has joined other leading companies throughout the country in supporting the UK 2000 environment project . |
| 19 | POWERGEN has joined rival National Power in a plea to save miners ' jobs . |
| 20 | Former West Ham striker Frank McAvennie , 33 , has joined Scottish Premier Division Partick Thistle on a two-month contract . |
| 21 | Thames 's prowess in driving a hard bargain on the scheme , Britain 's second-biggest infrastructure project after the Channel Tunnel , has placed severe financial pressure on suppliers . |
| 22 | THE impressive performance of Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice in the marvellous , low-budget £125,000 Australian film Strictly Ballroom has given vast new encouragement to ballroom dancing societies . |
| 23 | Hilton International has given additional operational responsibilities to Michael Finkleman FHCIMA , senior vice president — Western Europe , Mediterranean and Africa . |
| 24 | In my opinion it is this flexibility which has given English primary education its unique quality . |
| 25 | Tonga has given national park-style protection to the forests of " Eua island — the richest area , in terms of biodiversity , in the country , containing several endemic species , including a red musk parrot , banded iguana and insular flying fox . |
| 26 | Recently the use of photolysis in matrices with plane polarized light and the subsequent recording of the polarized infrared spectra of the products has given important additional information about the structures of unstable intermediates . |
| 27 | It is the first time that Prince Charles has given direct financial help to a run-down urban area , and the Duchy has been granted a 125-year lease on the 0.6 acre site . |
| 28 | She has penetrated other exclusive worlds before this . |
| 29 | The University has committed substantial additional resources for IT in 1993–4 in order effectively to implement its long-term strategic plans for IT . |
| 30 | Since this effectively precludes the existence of internal organisation as a source of elite power , this line of explanation has to find other such sources and other unifying characteristics . |