Example sentences of "and have [verb] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Rabbit admits that its support of Accent has in the past been minimal — now the firm will put all its strength behind its partner , and has appointed a Mr Helmut Weissenbach in Munich to co-ordinate the various European distribution outlets .
2 Intel Corp has found another patent that it thinks is being infringed , and has asked the US International Trade Commission to investigate the import from Taiwan of Twinhead Inc 's Slimnote notebook computers , and put a ban on them .
3 The victory means that the embattled Mr Major has re-asserted his shattered authority in the Tory Party , and has saved the Maastricht Treaty from defeat .
4 The euthanasia law was a broadly backed compromise worked out after 20 years of exhaustive public debate and has given the Netherlands the world 's most lenient policy on mercy killing .
5 He still retains a keen interest in criminal justice , and has chaired the ADSW 's criminal justice services committee for the past three years .
6 It said the effective date of introduction will remain 1 July and has advised the BHRCA to inform all members .
7 Osborne , a board member of the Royal Opera House , envisages the great courtyard being used for opera performances and concerts al fresco and has brought the ROH 's Angus Stirling and Jeremy Isaacs into the discussions .
8 ‘ Tell me , ’ I went on gently , ‘ if a man has entered a horse for the Derby from , shall we say , Texas or California or Kansas , or anywhere where horses are bred , and having won the Derby arrives to be presented with something , do you think he will be pleased to get a voucher on the Royal Insurance Company instead of the Cup ? ’
9 Taylor was reported on Monrovia radio to have expressed regret over the deaths and to have pledged the NPFL 's commitment to the ceasefire .
10 Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ?
11 Papandreou , who was president of the main opposition party , the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( Pasok ) , and had headed a Pasok government in 1981-89 , had consistently refused to appear in the courtroom or to send lawyers to represent him [ see pp. 38157-58 ] .
12 Responsibility for much of the killing was attributed to remnants of the Tontons Macoutes , the widely feared militia of the Duvaliers which had remained active since 1986 and had supported the Avril regime .
13 The Guardian noted that the report had again highlighted concern at the policy of the United Kingdom government in Northern Ireland and had placed the UK " in the same league as the Iraqi government for the way it treats the Kurds , the Somali government for the torture and murder of the Issaq tribe and the Sri Lankan government for the way it has " escalated " arbitrary arrests and torture of members of the political opposition " .
14 He had been at Cambridge just after the last war , had fought with the International Brigade in Spain and had joined the R.A.F. as an air-gunner in 194O .
15 Kim Dae Jung had accused Roh of staging a constitutional coup by his merger with the opposition , and had characterized the DLP as no more than an attempt to provide a form of constitutional legitimacy for the government 's increasing authoritarianism .
16 Sir Hilary " Hal " Miller , a senior Conservative MP , told the House that he had acted on behalf of WS during the past few years , and had warned the DTI , the Defence Ministry and an unidentified " third agency " on a number of occasions about suspicious Iraqi orders .
17 PCD general secretary Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio , a former Defence Minister who had left the MLSTP in 1982 and had formed the PCD as an underground organization in 1987 , was named to form an interim government pending presidential elections on March 3 .
18 The letter was sent by Francis Tonge , who lives in South Yunderup , Western Australia , and had used a Darlington telephone directory to try to trace his old pal .
19 But the dilemma remained and had left the US with the choice of two ghastly courses of action .
20 But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way .
21 The farmer whose land they had been riding on had looked up his old racing programmes and had found the Newbury card listing the horse he said Bones reminded him of .
22 By contrast , the United States had assisted traitors and reactionaries and had violated the Moscow agreement of December 1945 .
23 Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part .
24 He was a former underground activist in Solidarity , and had entered the Sejm in 1989 on the Solidarity list , although he headed the Gdansk-based Liberal Democratic Congress , a small political party composed of economic experts which had outlined a radical programme for the rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises .
25 Similar regulations and procedures have delayed both the promotion and dismissal of staff and have hampered the ZBS by failing to provide it with adequate transport when needed at short notice .
26 Students are not eligible under this scheme if they : have not been ordinarily resident within the European Community for the three years preceding the start of their course at the University ; or are on an exchange programme where fees are waived ; or have attended a course normally lasting more than two years and have received a UK statutory award for this study .
27 They are fifth in the Premier League , eight points behind Norwich , and have reached the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals .
28 But Rovers are still fifth in the Premier League , eight points behind Norwich , and have reached the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals — ideally placed for an honours drive in the second half of the season .
29 FIFA are anxious that the allegations of match-fixing , currently being investigated by a French magistrate , are cleared up quickly and have set a September 23 deadline alongside a threat to suspend the national team .
30 Not surprisingly they are now using Gore-Tex instead of Sympatex in their KSB range and have added the KSB 5 , a beefed up version of the Goret-Tex KSB 3 that will take a walking crampon .
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