Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I understand that , in view of the allegations about the conduct of Staffordshire special branch officers , the chief constable of Staffordshire has arranged for a full investigation by the deputy chief constable of another force . |
| 32 | The couple 's apparent reconciliation will have done little to lessen Princess Diana 's anger at the knowledge that the man who once told her he loved her has fallen for a beautiful woman , 10 years younger than herself . |
| 33 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 34 | Their cash has fallen from an average £4.20 a week last year to £4 , a survey reveals today . |
| 35 | Unemployment has fallen by a fifth over the past two years to below 8% . |
| 36 | Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities . |
| 37 | In the past three months output has fallen by an annualised 10.8% from its level during the three previous months . |
| 38 | On the contrary , he has pressed for a centralised federation in which Serbia would presumably play a dominant role . |
| 39 | The Association has pressed for a clear-cut answer on this issue and has not received it . |
| 40 | The difficulty in transferring contracts arises because the basic rule is that the vendor can not be excused from the burden of its contractual obligations by assigning or otherwise purporting to transfer to the purchaser the obligation to perform the duties it has undertaken under a particular contract . |
| 41 | Britain has reneged on a 1989 agreement to use Flue Gas Desulphurisation ( FGD ) equipment on at least 12,000 MW of power stations . |
| 42 | ‘ I always rated Pally at Ayresome Park , but there is no doubt he has blossomed on a bigger stage . |
| 43 | Since the British challenge made its start in 1987 at four locations , it has blossomed into a major feature of up to six kite meetings each year . |
| 44 | Barthes has differentiated between a postwar period during which the cultural influence of the French writer/intellectual has gradually diminished , and an interwar period during which " great writers … such as Gide , Claudel , Valery , Malraux … were at the centre of intense activity , exerting enormous cultural influence " . " |
| 45 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 46 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
| 47 | The wound I made in you has healed in an ugly way . |
| 48 | The company will also be estopped if the transferee has relied on a false statement in his transferor 's certificate that the transferor was the registered holder of the shares on the date stated in the certificate . |
| 49 | However , most of the research has relied upon a narrow and traditional form of grammar teaching . |
| 50 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
| 51 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
| 52 | He can argue that he has responded in a statesmanlike manner to the democratic will , and done what was asked of him . |
| 53 | The ideology of the enterprise culture through society has penetrated to a considerable degree to the young who grew up under Thatcher — ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ . |
| 54 | But as anyone who has sat on an equal opportunities working party will tell you , it is one thing to formulate policies and quite another to implement them . |
| 55 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |
| 56 | The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has claimed as a major success its programme for integrated pest management in rice . |
| 57 | In a period when , as recent events in Los Angeles and elsewhere have shown , the ethnic melting pot has dissolved into a racial meltdown , the clemency of clear understanding is as sought-after as ever . |
| 58 | Third , the centre has collapsed as a political force — although not as a constituency — and this obliges both major parties to compete more assiduously for middle-of-the-road votes . |
| 59 | Tobacco has collapsed as a primary source of funds . |
| 60 | He likes my sticky , sweaty body which smells of nectarine and baby oil and a spliff that Jo has rolled beneath a shadowy cove of eucalyptus . |