Example sentences of "and have [vb pp] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Environmental Investigation Agency ( EIA ) , a British conservation group , has made a close study of the wildlife trade and has revealed some horrific transport practices . |
| 2 | ( from Jerry Arnull , 10pp ; £1 + 30p p&p ) — Summary , from limited records , of a felicitous cricket week which began in 1933 and has seen some fine performances . |
| 3 | He is the one who paid the money for them and has made some bad mistakes , e.g. Mo Johnston , Paul Rideout , Alan Harper and Barry Horne . |
| 4 | My wife Jeannie , however , makes jewellery and has made some lovely bits and pieces from my gold ( mind you , she is a perfectly capable panner and often finds her own ! ) . |
| 5 | Jeremy Lewison , Deputy Keeper of the Tate Gallery 's Modern Collection and author of a new monograph ( Phaidon Press , 1992 , £17.95 ) , is guest curator and has selected some forty-five paintings and reliefs as well as twenty-five etchings from the series published by Francois Lafranca in 1965–68 . |
| 6 | As usual the author traces the history of the stations from their earliest days , 1891 in the case of Pwllheli , and has located some early photographs including one of the unusual ‘ tubular ’ lifeboat which served at this station on the Lleyn Peninsula for a short time after it was first opened . |
| 7 | She 's a student at Dundee University and has had some brilliant fund raising ideas amongst her friends at the University and she 's here sitting in the front row . |
| 8 | The RTC has tenaciously pursued the auditors of practically every failed thrift , and has won some spectacular rulings . |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems has spent the last year revamping its American resellers program and has de-authorised some 900 low value add locations for not making the kind of long-term commitment and investment it believes is necessary to a sound business model . |
| 10 | Dynasty is one of many and has enjoyed some huge ratings . |
| 11 | TOP Tips continue to come in and have attracted some 13,000 points to date . |
| 12 | The Lusaka casualty was originally owned by Pan American and had accumulated some 54 000 flying hours with that company before it was sold to Dan Air , and then a further 2000 flying hours were added before the accident occurred . |
| 13 | Portraying himself as political outsider , Perot had become a beneficiary of the current anti-incumbent mood of the electorate , and had received some impressive opinion poll ratings . |
| 14 | Prior to its involvement in the ESSE/L Project , School G had already developed its library resources and had nurtured some significant resource-assisted curriculum initiatives . |
| 15 | He had destroyed bedroom furniture , tipped Coca-Cola into the video recorder , broken mirrors , and had lit some small fires . |
| 16 | He was reputed to have a lightning start and had had some close races with Allan Wells . |
| 17 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 18 | One of his relations worked there , and had found some old warship with one magazine still loaded with the explosive . |
| 19 | One of Tony 's friends , Robin Whiteford , had been fishing in Sutherland and had caught some nice fish , including salmon and sea-trout . |
| 20 | But in the century since we have come to understand better the structure of natural language , and have made some conceptual progress in the philosophy of language . |
| 21 | The seeds of eternity have mixed with the beautiful human ideas and have formed some strange hybrid blossoms . |
| 22 | In addition , there are some industrially based transnational union organizations , for example the International Metalworkers Federation , and the International Union of Food and Allied Workers ' Associations , and these have been involved in genuine transnational labour struggles , and have gained some short term victories . |
| 23 | I have just bought my first lightweight and have noticed some funny groaning noises from the floor area . |
| 24 | They investigate specific topics , with the aid of specialist advisers , and have issued some influential reports . |
| 25 | He says of Mr Kinnock 's call : ‘ I think it is a huge tribute to those of us who have spoken for the Conservative Party on industrial matters , and have had some personal experience in creating a small business and building it up to some size . |