Example sentences of "and have [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | branded the penalty , which resulting in Courtaulds InterSpray slipping from first to last position in the opening stages of leg three before clawing back places , ‘ draconian ’ and has lodged an objection . |
| 2 | SCOTVEC has started the development process for its own staff and has prepared an outline programme to meet the other staff development needs which have been identified . |
| 3 | Federal Express Corp is to install ‘ several thousand ’ colour and monochrome X-terminals in its Memphis , Tennessee headquarters and local field offices by the mid-1990s , and has placed an order for the pilot stage of its upgrade programme with Network Computing Devices Inc . |
| 4 | The British National Bibliography Research Fund , established in 1975 , includes amongst its aims the promotion of research into the use of books and into reading habits , and has achieved an impact beyond its modest resources — as a glance at the bibliography of this book will show . |
| 5 | Wolfensberger in the United States has focused attention specifically on the implications for service delivery and has developed an assessment procedure aimed not at individuals , but at the quality of services . |
| 6 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 7 | If a personal creditor of the heir has been sent into possession in order to protect his property , and has obtained an object left under trust to me , it is agreed that I ought not to be prejudiced by him in any way ; no more than if he had received that object as a pledge from the heir himself . |
| 8 | Apparently , Patrick Eggle has talked with manufacturers of quality , ‘ unfinished ’ furniture and has chosen an oil which not only protects , but also enhances the natural grain of the wood . |
| 9 | THE debate on the male gaze has continued ever since and has had an impact on feminist film-making as well as on theory and criticism . |
| 10 | ( If the reader doubts this and has had an accident driving a car , reflect again ! ) |
| 11 | The West has been grateful to Kundera , extravagantly so at times , and has shown an impulse to beat itself with his playful fictions . |
| 12 | It forms the centrepiece of Oxfam 's Front Line Africa campaign and has prompted an inquiry by the UK Charity Commissioners into the agency 's political campaigning activity . |
| 13 | The group at University College is attempting to build such a microscope , and has produced an instrument that is close to working . |
| 14 | Joe does earn some money on the after-dinner speaking circuit , and has addressed an assortment of lawyers , writers and bankers since his release . |
| 15 | Having attended a trial or two in my time , and having kept an eye on the changing standard of juries , police , barristers and judges , I am convinced that if hanging were reintroduced , they would not just occasionally hang the wrong person , but do it pretty well every time . |
| 16 | And if there were a proposal to establish a funding council , that would best be done in the context of the further education colleges having acquired self-governing status , having found their feet and having had an opportunity to discuss the respective roles of the funding council and of the Secretary of State . |
| 17 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 18 | Frederick went on the new railway as far as the railhead at the diamond mines of Kimberley , and had to join an ox-wagon train the rest of the way . |
| 19 | By the later nineteenth century , these dangers were much less ; and perhaps more striking is Davy 's other remark , about how in his lifetime chemistry had ceased to be a science of furnaces and large quantities , and had become an activity to be carried on with spirit-lamps and test-tubes in the drawing room . |
| 20 | But there was also a growing disaffection among the younger poets and critics : he had ceased to be a poet and had become an institution , and the only thing to do with an institution is to attempt to pull it down . |
| 21 | He began work as a boy at the Pensher coalmine of Charles Stewart , third Marquis of Londonderry [ q.v. ] , and had become an overman by 1837 . |
| 22 | One polytechnic had expressed its fears to the Council that not all boards would operate the new arrangements , and had received an assurance from the Chief Officer that ‘ corrective action would be taken as soon as possible where any Board was seen not acting in the spirit of the new arrangements ’ . |
| 23 | During the evening , however , Merrill developed a raging headache and had to force an interest in Richard 's conversation . |
| 24 | This small ritual exchange , so invariable that she could silently mouth his words and had to resist an impulse to giggle , the familiar domestic aroma of the tea , the gradual warmth as she curved her hands around the thick mug , constituted a reassuring and comforting beginning to the working day . |
| 25 | Thereafter , someone had decided to make it well-nigh impossible to get to Ulm from Messkirch and had constructed an obstacle course of road-works , diversions , traffic jams and misplaced signposts which did my temper no good at all in the sweltering heat . |
| 26 | In that case the trial judge had regarded the general level of awards in the class of case with which he was dealing as " unacceptably low " , and had made an award above the generally accepted bracket . |
| 27 | Mr Michael Rowley , finance director , said the group had foreseen the problems and had made an effort to increase income from interest , which came in at £64,000 as against a charge of £78,000 at the halfway stage last year . |
| 28 | The court was told the woman became pregnant and had to have an abortion . |
| 29 | Whilst he remained at Allen Street he had a bedroom in the basement , Minton occupying the middle floors and the flat at the top of the house being let to Paul Danquah , the son of a Gold Coast politician who had come to England from Ghana to study law and had had an affair with a Lyons Corner House waitress , Paul 's mother . |
| 30 | They started off with custard , and had to find an apple in the custard was it ? |