Example sentences of "have [verb] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I must com comment on the way that since Christmas the Vice Chair of Council has undertaken the many civic duties he has been called upon to perform , assisted by his wife . |
| 2 | At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes . |
| 3 | London-based developers Inner City Enterprises spearheaded the £4m project which has transformed the former listed Georgian terrace into Liverpool 's latest prestigious business address . |
| 4 | Cincinnati Bell Inc has had the all clear from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co 's double-A-minus senior debt rating on its $285m or so of debt following the company 's announcement that it would file for a 9% increase in local services and a three-year alternative regulation plan beginning January 1 1994 . |
| 5 | This latter comparison and its continuing memory in the culture unquestionably has had the same tranquillising effect on the American underclass as it has on that in Europe . |
| 6 | She has used the many traditional farms and farm buildings owned by the National Trust in the region to give a reflection of everyday life over the past three centuries . |
| 7 | The team , coached by national coach Ian ‘ Bucky ’ Buchanan , has displayed the same hard running , no-nonsense tackling as the Namibians . |
| 8 | My paper tells me that a dispute over pay between the leading British manufacturer of seaside rock and his chief sugar boiler has left the latter jobless and the former with umpteen sticks of rocks bearing the legend Mean Bastard all the way through . |
| 9 | ( c ) Extra-statutory concession D6 This concession happily can exempt the whole gain resulting from the disposal from a charge to capital gains tax even if the conveyance or transfer to the wife takes place 36 months after the husband has left the former matrimonial home . |
| 10 | The professional clairvoyant also has to ignore the many scriptural bans on fortune-telling ( 1 Samuel 28:3 ; 2 Kings 21:6 ; Isaiah 8:19,20 ; Daniel 2:2 and others ) . |
| 11 | And when she 'd got the same blank response to two further letters she 'd sent him , Laura had sorrowfully realised that her marriage was indeed at an end . |
| 12 | She might be but er she 'd got the same red skirt on as she had she were wearing when we were there ! |
| 13 | Organic chemists had been troubled and had had to overcome the same semantic problems a century earlier ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 14 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
| 15 | Even so , many succeeded in establishing a relationship similar to a heterosexual marriage , and Hanns Ebensten believes that ‘ had he not been a homosexual , John would have had the same occasional hours of despair and misery , and maybe had a succession of failing marriages and affairs . |
| 16 | ‘ Chastity ’ may not have had the same social meaning for a working-class girl , accustomed to different courtship and marriage patterns , as for a middle-class young lady . |
| 17 | ‘ Among them were rich aristocrats who would have had the same fine dental work with gold fillings seen in these so-called remains of the Imperial family . |
| 18 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |
| 19 | At twenty-eight , I began to find myself , having overcome the many spiritual depths I 'd sunk to in my emotional isolation . |
| 20 | Investors there would nevertheless be permitted to write off against tax 50 per cent of costs entailed in a one-year period , while employees there would have their tax allowances increased , and companies would not have to pay the same local property and capital taxes as in western Germany . |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose he did n't have to face the same fierce bowling that we get today — I mean , West Indies and all that ? ’ commented Mis Mack 's Solicitor innocently . |
| 22 | The removal of many thousands of large whales , especially the krill-feeding rorquals , from the Southern Ocean within a few decades is thought by some ecologists to have favoured the many other species , including fish , birds and seals , that feed on krill . |
| 23 | But then you come and tell us well they 're a charitable trust I would of thought that a charitable trust would of been very er , happy to have seen the some rented accommodation ? |
| 24 | The names of Robert Graves , W.H. Auden , and Christopher Isherwood may serve to remind us of English writers who seem to have reached the same dismaying conclusion over the years since . |
| 25 | In view of the competition for places , all applicants are required to have covered the same basic entrance requirements . |
| 26 | However , these optimistic hopes , while not entirely misconceived , appear to have ignored the many formidable traditional obstacles to the emancipation of women that still remain in most Third World societies , as well as new obstacles created by the so-called ‘ modernization ’ processes themselves . |
| 27 | Both rooms had received the same brutal searching treatment . |
| 28 | I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’ |
| 29 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 30 | Romaine ( 1978b ) has cited the case in Edinburgh of two locally born upper-middle-class speakers who had attended the same private school but spoke with quite different accents . |