Example sentences of "have [verb] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing has broken the isolation more than the light aircraft . |
| 2 | The Queen Mother has honoured the war dead at Westminster Abbey . |
| 3 | Course and the bomb gone on the broke the winches and that , and that had gone so far , you know , that timber , that has crushed the timber all , more or less all together . |
| 4 | Evolution rather than revolution is also imposed by the British system of government , which has given the country twenty-one Ministers of Defence since the Second World War . |
| 5 | Scottish Enterprise , the successor to the Scottish Development Agency which was the driving force behind the plan to bring in leisure and commerce to the Waterfront , has given the council seven days to pay for extensive infrastructure works or face court proceedings . |
| 6 | Mr Dayton has given the Institute many of its finest oils , by Manet ( ‘ The Smoker ’ , 1866 ) , Matisse ( ‘ Pensées de Pascal ’ , 1924 ) , Nicolas Mignard ( ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ , circa 1650 ) and van Goyen ( a riverscape at Utrecht , 1648 ) , along with works by Kandinsky , Kirchner , Bonnard and Mondrian . |
| 7 | The landlord must be given an order for possession after the expiry of the term , provided he has given the requisite two months ' notice requiring possession , ideally from the landlord 's point of view expiring when the tenancy terminates . |
| 8 | Their apprehensions were summed up by the New York Age : ‘ As a black champion , he has given the Negro more trouble by his scandals than he did in twenty years as a black tramp ’ ( quoted by Gillmore , 1975 , p.99 ) . |
| 9 | Colonel John Wilson has given the club immense service , having been President for the last 10 years immediately following 23 years as Match Secretary . |
| 10 | Once the school has formed the relationship many companies will be prepared to take on sponsorship or allocate funds . |
| 11 | Research by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory in Oxford has traced the protein responsible for blocking treatment . |
| 12 | Alternatively the Director General may confirm he has decided not to refer the agreement to the Court where : ( a ) any directly applicable provision of EC law applies to the agreement ; ( b ) the agreement has expired or has been terminated ; ( c ) all the relevant restrictions have been removed ; ( d ) the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has discharged the Director General from his duty to take proceedings where he is satisfied that the restrictions are not of such significance as to call for investigation by the Court . |
| 13 | However , the disabled person has to secure the job first . |
| 14 | Feminists should question , for instance , the way Western thought has downgraded the body relative to the mind , the emotions relative to reason . |
| 15 | Ballesteros , who has won the title four times , opened up with a 66 and enjoyed a comfortable lunch , sitting on a cushion of a five-hole lead . |
| 16 | The 37-year-old has won the race four times in the past . |
| 17 | Holding hands with him was also Grete Waitz , a running legend who has won the race nine times . |
| 18 | Langan 's Bistro in Paston Place , Brighton , has won the Perrier Best Restaurant of the Year Award . |
| 19 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 20 | Interox , jointly owned by Solvay and Laporte , has selected the east German town of Bernberg as the site for its new 50 000 t pa hydrogen peroxide plant . |
| 21 | Intergraph Corp has wielded the axe half a dozen times since last August : 100 employees were laid off a couple of weeks ago — the company reported a $12.5m first quarter loss on revenues of $282m and has 7,000 staff worldwide . |
| 22 | Since that caravan site encounter , Jean has met the woman three times , in more restrained mood . |
| 23 | Since then , he has seen the bird many times in the park , though the full extent of its range is not yet known . |
| 24 | It was an important result for the Lincolnshire man , who has missed the cut four times and finished no better than 55th on his eight tour starts to date . |
| 25 | In naturally acid areas , or where acid rain has made the water more acid , lead pipes are a serious hazard to health because the water strips the metal from the pipe walls and it ends up coming out of the tap . |
| 26 | Everyone says — my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has made the point several times — that Yugoslavia as we knew it is no more . |
| 27 | The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land once in her life to sit in the temple of Ishtar and lay with some stranger … after sexual union has made the woman holy in the goddess ' sight , she returns home … |
| 28 | What has made the re-dating definitive has been the dendrochronologist 's report which dates the panel to around 1485 — some twenty years after Rogier 's death ’ . |
| 29 | The film industry has made the shark one of the most feared and familiar of all fish . |
| 30 | As it does with anything that is widely liked and appreciated , this modern money-mad world has made the rose big business , and the plant obeys all the ups and downs of fashion , high pressure competition and selling — even racketeering — as do pop records , clothes and motor cars . |