Example sentences of "have [verb] [det] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 If you usually think of products like bread or beans as sources of carbohydrate rather than protein , it is because much of the diet literature has emphasized this aspect of these foods .
2 During 1990 , 450 guests benefited from convalescence at the Home , and the Association has received many letters of appreciation of the good food , the good company and the kind care of the staff .
3 So far , no artist from that period has received this kind of attention from a major museum .
4 As far as I am aware this is the first time any Irish rider has received this sort of gift from Honda . ’
5 Game theory has developed this theory of rational choice a stage further by assuming that interacting agents have common knowledge of each other 's rationality .
6 Thus it seems that Lacanian psychoanalysis , both in theory and practice , aims merely to show what a fragmented , decentred thing the human subject is , and Lacan has dismissed all talk of ‘ unity ’ or ‘ identity ’ as an illusion .
7 Rita is a machine knitter of 20 years ' standing who has taught many techniques of the craft .
8 To gain access to her he has to penetrate many layers of permeability .
9 Stuart Bailey , station master of Rothley on the Great Central Railway , has heard many stories of ghosts which have appeared at his station , although he himself has no first-hand experience of the supernatural .
10 Er there is a technical report that has examined this sort of information erm for the year nineteen eighty one nineteen eighty eighty one , specifically for this county .
11 The United Nations has examined several sets of leaf samples .
12 According to Standard Life 's marketing manager Bruce Wallace , less than 18% of the UK 's working population has arranged any form of income protection , although one in five people are likely to be off work for more than three months during their working life .
13 They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise !
14 Stokoe ( 1980 ) has highlighted this type of one-sign sentence in ASL , where one can see the use of direction and movement to provide the full meaning .
15 JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship .
16 The ecological disaster created by the diversion of water from the Aral Sea for the sake of a better cotton crop has given that sort of thinking a severe knock .
17 The government has given few details of its hoarding scheme .
18 Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed .
19 We can look to the USA where the role played by the National Commission for Preservation and Access has given this type of work a high profile , including recent projects on images .
20 But the major tradition which has queried this view of self has been that which derives from psychoanalysis .
21 They say she procured her daughter 's marriage to the king by sorcery and has committed all manner of other crimes . ’
22 So she has to find another way of providing music for the midnight service .
23 But all this is contained in a framework which , in its clarity and essential simplicity , has reminded many commentators of Barth 's passionate fondness for Mozart .
24 He has clarified this way of working very helpfully ( ibid . ) .
25 The story of the Patiño family is by no means unique , but it is arresting nonetheless for all the romance and tragedy that has surrounded this clan of immensely rich and socially ambitious art collectors .
26 Silvia has to pass those exams of hers .
27 Mr. Lloyd , counsel for the defendant , has attacked this part of the judgment by relying heavily on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know anything about the power of attorney and her status thereunder .
28 Rover 's Cowley works which has dominated this area of Oxford for decades … the play 's writers talked to current and former workers .
29 For the reopening , the AGO has organised several selections of recent gifts , and a retrospective of Canadian media-based sculptor ‘ Robin Collyer ’ ( until 6 June ) , who will represent Canada at the 1993 Venice Biennale .
30 Man may be distinguished from the animal by his capacity for non-violence , but it does not mean that he has shed all vestiges of the animal in him .
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