Example sentences of "have [vb pp] in a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among primates , especially close collaboration between parents has developed in a few forest-dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other . |
| 2 | the Carboniferous basement has behaved in a less than homogeneous manner during the basin inversion ; |
| 3 | Windsor Davies has appeared in a few but he 's er not one of the regular ones . |
| 4 | This has resulted in a less than euphoric response from staff across the spectrum . |
| 5 | Now , if he 'd written in a more highfalutin way , or he 'd talked about Liz and myself , or a variety of other things , in a very pontificating way , it may never have got in the newspaper because they would have said , ‘ What is the relevance ? |
| 6 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 7 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 8 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 9 | With this one exception , he said in many pages what Lanfranc had said in a few sentences . |
| 10 | So , in an effort to once and for all give you the facts on why we 're Fun Factor Number 1 , we 've called in a few experts to run through the complete bizzo . |
| 11 | For those bogwarts who 're still stuck , I 've thrown in a few tips this month . |
| 12 | It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee . |
| 13 | Flowers of emerald and trees of silver decorating a ground made of powdered gold had changed in a few helpless throbs into body-crushed vegetation , stained ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 14 | ‘ Without their local knowledge and contacts it would have taken years for us to achieve what we have managed in a few months , ’ said . |