Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The pupils at the £3,465-a-term school , boys and girls aged 16 and over , are to be interviewed by police at their homes as the school has broken up for Easter .
2 War has broken out between taxi drivers and a bus company over a taxi rank .
3 Thus the death of his father is not an event that impinges on a child only at one particular point : it may go on producing shock waves through its continuing effect on the mother , which in turn may bring about a different relationship with the child ; in addition there may be economic difficulties as a result of which the mother has to go out to work , a new home has to be found , and an altogether new lifestyle adopted .
4 My hon. Friend , who has been courteous and kind in meeting delegations led by me and by other hon. Members to discuss the problem , has pointed out from time to time that the scheme is the responsibility of the county council .
5 Elsewhere in Eastern Europe , output has fallen by between one- and two-thirds .
6 While in many cases the application of a degree of common sense by the parties involved will indicate whether a restriction has fallen out of date or should continue to be respected , the better course is to keep the matter under regular review .
7 For this reason the golfball picture of the planet , with regular internal layers and smooth , uniform demarcation zones , has fallen out of favour as it has encouraged what are probably quite wrong estimates of temperatures at the core .
8 Kevlar ( DuPont ) has fallen out of favour for reasons of safety .
9 Once the market leader , Adidas has fallen out of favour with committed runners in recent years .
10 Sadly this latter process , desirable as it might be to stem the antics of a few irresponsible councils , has spilled over into Local Government generally with the unfortunate effect that many responsible authorities have been greatly frustrated in their legitimate desire to provide adequate services in their area .
11 Bites generally occur when someone has sat down in woodland , bracken or heather , unaware that they are close to or on an adder .
12 A just has to find out in detail what B was doing yesterday evening between 6pm and 8pm
13 Now , reality has caught up with illusion .
14 Tormented by allegations of adultery , draft evasion , and venality , he has limped through to victory with an empty campaign , crafted to avoid giving offence to anybody .
15 THE bottom has dropped out of morality , according to Lord Hailsham , who added that the ‘ last few months have been particularly difficult to bear . ’
16 He has dropped out of school because he is not interested in studies .
17 Certainly there are exceptions : ( 5 ) Alec 's shoes are real leather Intuition leaves no room for hesitation in taking this as an example of assignment , with leather used purely descriptively , rather than of equation , but the occurrence of the adjective real indicates that leather is nonetheless a noun ( this is no doubt partly possible because the adjective leathern has dropped out of use in modern English , and because leather itself is a mass noun able to occur without a preceding article ) .
18 ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status .
19 Brenda Lambert , headteacher at South Wellfield First School , Whitley Bay , Tyne and Wear , said : ‘ We made up some of the recipes and John Major 's has come out on top .
20 SoftwareFabrik GmbH , Vienna , Austria , has come out with version 2.0 of Archiv+light+ , its Windows-based document management system that also runs over Unix client/server networks : the system controls the scanning and archiving of paper documents on optical disks , and will retrieve , display and print documents in the system .
21 Xerox Corp 's Xerox Engineering Systems in Rochester , New York has come out with network server software that supports all industry-standard files , including PostScript , and Ethernet and non-Ethernet local networks for printing on all its raster printers and plotters .
22 Congruent Corp , a small band of tecchies operating from the heart of Manhattan , has come out with technology that will enable Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system to support X Window applications running on X terminals and workstations .
23 Congruent Corp , a small band of techies operating from the heart of Manhattan , has come out with technology that will enable Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system to support X Window applications running on X terminals and workstations .
24 A convicted robber has come out of prison on parole … and walked straight into a job as a professional actor .
25 Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season .
26 A small amount of order has come out of disorder , and no mind planned it .
27 ALTHOUGH the temporary loss of the Grand Opera House was a major disaster , unbelievably , good has come out of evil in the shape of a production of West Side Story by Opera Northern Ireland that must surely be a landmark in local theatrical history .
28 The US profession has come out in support of E&Y and many firms recognise that , with the number of outstanding suits , the amounts involved and the rising cost of litigation , the settlement is a bargain .
29 The reason is that George Soros has come out in support of the metal .
30 Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life .
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