Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now all too clear that despite US occupation of Southern Korea the Russians have intended to impose a united front policy throughout the country … |
| 2 | Since then tests have developed to cover a wide variety of abilities and people of all ages . |
| 3 | Although some of the participants develop hardware — Hampshire-based Neural Technologies Ltd and Gloucester-based Micro Circuit Engineering Ltd have collaborated to develop a Neural Instruction Set Processor — the project clubs will mostly concentrate on software development . |
| 4 | Over the last few months SCOTVEC and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) have collaborated to produce a joint statement , the main feature of which is an agreement that SVQs and NVQs are compatible in their essential features and that there will be mutual recognition of these throughout the UK . |
| 5 | There 's nothing more frustrating than discovering halfway through a DIY project that you have forgotten to buy a simple yet vital piece of equipment . |
| 6 | WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party . |
| 7 | ‘ My fellow Americans , on this day , with high hopes and brave hearts and massive numbers , the American people have voted to make a new beginning , ’ he told the crowd . |
| 8 | He told ecstatic supporters : ‘ The American people have voted to make a new beginning . |
| 9 | We have to try to imagine a complex future in which different groups of the elderly will have different experiences from those of the present and from one another . |
| 10 | While British surfing in recent years has developed into Day-Glo sporting fantasy , into pipeline boasts in city pubs , and into Newquay , Newquay , Newquay — booming as the ‘ surf capital ’ of Britain — these boys have looked to carve a different route . |
| 11 | From that time , they have continued to have an important role in the discounting of bills and as a result of this function have come to fill a pivotal role between the banks and the Bank of England in the determination of short term interest rates . |
| 12 | So at this grave moment we have come to establish a supreme people 's council which can represent all the Korean People and include representatives from all the classes of the Korean people . |
| 13 | But now these incidental catches have come to present a major danger to cetacean populations . |
| 14 | You see , I have come to experience a great truth of life : love . |
| 15 | While this is good news for millions of borrowers and mortgage holders , it is not such a rosy picture for those people who have come to expect a healthy return from their savings accounts . |
| 16 | However , most Japanese businessmen acquainted with foreigners have come to expect a certain variety within reasonable limits in the dress of foreign businessmen . |
| 17 | In both railways , the machinery has been the means by which the unions have come to exert a profound influence over the conduct of railway activities . |
| 18 | One activity that has already been set up is the international Intor workshop , in which groups from the US , Europe , japan and the USSR have met to establish a common set of objectives and an optimum design for demonstrating the technology needed for a fusion reactor based on the tokamak system . |
| 19 | Thus many schools concerned to teach scientific subjects in a more active fashion , Nuffield-based or not , have sought to employ a judicious mixture of " lead lessons " , directed laboratory practice , and increasingly open-ended problem-solving activity . |
| 20 | He has argued that historians who have sought to identify a Latitudinarian party within the church have been chasing a chimera , as the label was merely a vague , derogatory term devised by embittered contemporary Puritans who felt betrayed by the abandonment of predestinarian theology . |
| 21 | Some have sought to establish a full banking presence in countries where regulations permit the opening of branches , but , as the reader will appreciate , this is an expensive exercise . |
| 22 | Shrewsbury and Borough Council have taken up the flagpole , have decided to spend a considerable amount of money on providing a visitor attraction in those buildings , around those buildings . |
| 23 | It would appear however , that their Labour counterparts on Sedgefield District Council either have not got the message or more likely have decided to turn a deaf ear . |
| 24 | It would appear , however , that their Labour counterparts on Sedgefield District Council either have not got the message or more likely have decided to turn a deaf ear . |
| 25 | Once the knocker boys have decided to hit a particular area , they will check into a good-class hotel and begin a leaflet drop . |
| 26 | Following the submission of a Gallup report on the matter the BPI have decided to instigate a full investigation with hearings set for early September . |
| 27 | Given that our five-frame match is likely to last anything up to six hours at our normal rate of play , I have decided to spring a new psychological tactic on Martin : I shall eat bananas throughout the match , as top tennis players do . |
| 28 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 29 | I have been there nearly ten years now , and they are years in which I have grown to learn a good deal more about the power of the Holy Spirit , his gifts , his humbling and breaking , and the glorious way in which he takes and transforms congregations and lives from every conceivable background once opened to him . |
| 30 | The work of each woman I have selected unites a sophisticated understanding of the area in which she is working — and these are always varied , for instance sculpture , metalwork , painting , photography , with a very personal , often critical viewpoint , specific to the woman herself . |