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

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1 It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world .
2 Since the heyday of the Chicago School , though , there has developed in urban sociology ( and , arguably , in sociology more generally ) a major gulf between these two kinds of understanding .
3 Methods of contraception and details of the menstrual cycle — whether it has altered in any way , how regular it is — will be asked , and also details of the symptoms , if any , that prompted attendance .
4 I can summarise his submissions as follows : ( 1 ) Walker v. Great Northern Railway Co. of Ireland , 28 L.R.Ir. 69 correctly stated the position at English law up to 1976. ( 2 ) As the legislature has intervened in this field it is neither necessary nor appropriate for the judiciary to alter the position at common law .
5 However , child benefit has fallen in real value , so there was no justification for reducing the dependency additions .
6 Its author , a historian who comes from former Yugoslavia but now lives in Britain , has gathered in one volume her writings published between 1981 and the end of 1991 .
7 We are aware of the campaigning work your section has undertaken in this regard and would like to express to you our genuine appreciation for your efforts .
8 The list of reforms the Conservative government has undertaken in social security is long : the Fowler reviews ; the removal of young people from the benefits system , and Lilley 's categoric assurance that the youth training guarantee works ; the recent changes to the system of disability benefits ; and changes to the system of child maintenance .
9 She has succeeded in convincing Rainbow that she alone must somehow atone for the misdeeds of the ancestress who caused poor Anya to wander forever in a twilight world .
10 The two approaches to the study of the mother and child relationship we have discussed so far-that based on physical care and that dealing with attitudes — each originally hoped to reveal the major determinants of children 's personality development ; neither , however , has succeeded in this task .
11 Every advertisement has to appear in some advertising medium or other , even if it is only a roadside sign or a newsagent 's window .
12 After all , law and order has collapsed in this country .
13 But Leonard is not of that cloth ; his nature is obsessive ; what he does , he must do with abandon ; he has to work in total conviction , and dedication .
14 ‘ The church has come in good faith , and is innocent of any deception .
15 However , this is much too simplistic , and reading levels of deaf children are considerably depressed , as Conrad ( 1979 ) has reported in some detail .
16 Eight years have elapsed since Middlesbrough terminated Allison 's last post in League football , since when he has dabbled in non-League management with Fisher , and coached Danes , Swedes and Scots .
17 The seeds alone , as anyone who has dabbled in Indian cookery knows , are not pungent .
18 McKibbin is due to enter hospital for an operation on his hand , while Barrett has impressed in pre-season training .
19 The Channel Tunnel Research Unit has looked in some detail at the likely impact of the Tunnel and rail infrastructure improvements on European integration and the development of particular regions .
20 How can an unchangeable God hand out in this age what he has forbidden in another age ?
21 The range of courses presently available , both advanced and non-advanced , has grown in piecemeal fashion , largely in response to the technological revolution which British agriculture has achieved over the last 30 years .
22 Up to this point , Sartre 's notion of conflict has operated in direct antithesis to that of Bakhtin : whereas for Sartre , struggles are totalizing , always creating a larger , meaningful and developing whole out of multiplicities , for Bakhtin they are detotalizing , dissolving ‘ previous totalisations ’ .
23 By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ .
24 Despite that record , it is , of course , the case that unemployment has risen in this recession , as it has in all other recessions .
25 The academic book market is already in decline with the erosion of student grants ; the spending on schoolbooks and on libraries has suffered in public spending cutbacks , and consumer cash in the current recession is clearly not plentiful .
26 Any movement of the mouse will change the pattern that the chip detects and it can instantly calculate how far it has moved in any direction .
27 Cohu Inc has turned in first quarter net profit up 566.2% at $1.3m , after $410,000 charges due to the cumulative effect of an accounting change last time , on turnover that rose by 41% to $17.3m .
28 Electronic Information Systems Inc has turned in first quarter net profit up by 61.9% to $871,000 , on turnover that rose by 31.3% to $7.3m .
29 Analog Devices Inc has turned in first quarter net profit of $8.1m against losses of $972,000 last time , on turnover that rose by 15.2% to $151.3m .
30 V Band Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $442,000 up from losses of $281,000 last time , on turnover that dropped by 13.5% to $5.3m .
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