Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 2 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 3 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 4 | The village has attracted only a trickle of visitors . |
| 5 | John Ambrose should be well known to visitors to recent Woodworker Shows , as he has won rather a lot of medals in the turning competitions . |
| 6 | Britain has seen barely a score , worth £2.1 billion ( $3.6 billion ) . |
| 7 | ‘ That river has risen quite a bit since earlier on , ’ murmured Charlie . |
| 8 | He apparently has done quite a lot of good work in the past . |
| 9 | ( Edited by Derek Hodgson , available from Yorkshire , CCC , ) The late withdrawal of Craig McDermott from the Yorkshire staff has caused embarrassment and inconvenience in several quarters ; at the ‘ Welcome to Craig McDermott ’ dinner which was held recently in Leeds United 's banqueting suite , there was one conspicuous absentee , and now the Australian fast bowler has made rather a mess of the Yorkshire yearbook . |
| 10 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 11 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
| 12 | Jesus has been travelling around and has got quite a reputation from his preaching and healing exploits . |
| 13 | And I mean the actual the U K market those in those areas is quite developed and has got quite a reputation but obviously it has got to be able to develop develop and adapt accordingly over time . |
| 14 | I think this has got quite a bit of vodka in it . ’ |
| 15 | That year nine student has got quite a lot to say , has written a very nice letter of complaint to god , bending god 's ear , say just one minute god . |
| 16 | Chris has got quite a lot of , he 's got Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road . |
| 17 | If the user has requested only a subset the user will be prompted to enter a start and end module name . |
| 18 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) has raised again a question that he put in Committee about publication of the prices obtained for the subsidiaries . |
| 19 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 20 | He has played only a handful of games since breaking down with back trouble in St Lucia while touring his native West Indies with England in 1990 . |
| 21 | It is just too important a match to blood a player , who upto now has played only a handful of internationals . |
| 22 | Plenty of work , perhaps , but the serious student will find it intensely rewarding , and the newcomer may be encouraged to explore this difficult field ; he will certainly be well armed against the problems once he has digested even a fraction of the mountain of information and enthusiasm contained therein . |
| 23 | This has no practical purpose whatsoever but has become rather a measure of ability — if you can duck gybe it is an indication that you must be quite good . |
| 24 | President Reagan is probably right in thinking that private companies could introduce innovations to what has become rather a moribund operation . |
| 25 | There can be no doubt that the PhD , no longer seen as a sign of unusually high scholarly achievement , has become simply a certificate of professional competence , and that intellectual standards have declined accordingly . |
| 26 | The demand for central direction , then , partly as we have seen , a demand that the Local Education Authorities should be kept in their place , has become also a demand for a particular style of rigorous , and rigorously examined , curriculum . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , the programmers managed to cram all the action into a single load ; this has become quite a rarity these days , particularly where tie-ins are concerned . |
| 28 | Over the years the exchange of engines between the 15″ gauge railways in England has become quite a feature of the little railway scene . |
| 29 | Pam Dixon , a teacher at Alsop High , said Tommy has become quite a celebrity with his school pals . |
| 30 | Basically I got a fax from him in LA yesterday , and apparently his daughter is a great fan of yours and Basil 's … and he too has become quite a fan . |