Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social services have stopped paying a £30 attendance allowance for Becky to go to Southampton once every two months for treatment . |
| 2 | Non-plussed , its director , Brian Jackson , said ‘ we have given Logitek a time limit to come to terms with their error . |
| 3 | Government ministers have intervened to stop a £7 million television and newspaper advertising campaign by the nuclear power industry . |
| 4 | Clever publicity , orchestrated confusion over the equipment involved and a gullible pop industry have conspired to create a wave of enthusiasm in some parts of the press and the music industry . |
| 5 | All these have conspired to produce a climate wherein the utmost care must be taken with our every comment or flight of humour . |
| 6 | ‘ There are great expectations , pious hopes and myriad uncertainties which have coalesced to cause a frisson of excitement at the prospect of success , for success alone can be the only option that should be countenanced . ’ |
| 7 | The pragmatic theories we have examined leave a number of unanswered questions , and they are in need of considerable extension before they can be fruitfully applied to discourse analysis and language teaching . |
| 8 | Environmental organisations from the south of Holland have joined to launch a campaign informing the major bulb-importing countries about the damage to the environment caused by the bulb-growing industry . |
| 9 | When you think how CCW and the WTB have collaborated to agree a set of Principles for Tourism in National Parks , we should try to remain hopeful that a similar joint approach can eventually be agreed for golf courses . |
| 10 | The British Psychological Society and Macmillan have collaborated to produce a series of books of ‘ Psychology for ... [ different professions ] ’ ; among the lucky recipients are doctors , nurses , occupational therapists , teachers and , even , hairdressers ! |
| 11 | Very good for those one off Happy Birthday ! messages when you have forgotten to get a card . |
| 12 | Party political factors are frequently to the fore ; indeed , ‘ many people … have claimed to perceive a resurgence of eighteenth-century jobbery ’ ( Hood , 1978 , p. 40 ) . |
| 13 | Supporters of the ANL in the NorthEast are particularly concerned about the ambitions of the BNP including the intention to field a General Election candidate in Darlington and racial attacks which in the past year have included nailing a pig 's head to a synagogue in Sunderland and a similar attack in South Shields . |
| 14 | Over the last twenty years , we have come to draw a distinction between the initial and continuing training of teachers . |
| 15 | I have already mentioned how the left and right distinction has begun to evaporate as formally opposed groups have come to share a sense of what race is . |
| 16 | While in the nineteenth century , Marx appeared simply as an ‘ anti-theologian ’ , many of the themes in his work have come to play a role in more recent theological discussion . |
| 17 | ‘ I have come to register a co-operative . ’ |
| 18 | You have omitted to specify a MODEL DETAILS keyword in the RDBI configuration file . |
| 19 | One of the most imaginative that I have seen uses a series of bowls and a conventional fountain spray . |
| 20 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 21 | Players with impeccable amateur records have struggled to make a living as professionals and no-one is quite sure why . |
| 22 | The fact that for 30 years social scientists have struggled to produce a theory of interaction tells us just how complex it is . |
| 23 | This morning , your escort will take you through the beautiful countryside to the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country , home to the Amish — known as the ‘ plain people ’ who have strived to maintain a tradition of simple rural living . |
| 24 | As Frank Bell pointed out , ‘ Over the last twenty years we have strived to provide a Quality Service . |
| 25 | More recently , a number of voluntary initiatives have sought to foster a sense of belonging to the community on the part of young people . |
| 26 | There has always been one factor which has dominated the convictions of those who have sought to establish a religion , or its equivalent under whatever name . |
| 27 | Many traditional indexing approaches have sought to find a label or indexing term which is co-extensive with the content of the document being indexed ; that is , the scope of the indexing term and the document are similar . |
| 28 | In the chapters of this part of the book I have sought to provide a rationale for such an approach . |
| 29 | Nottinghamshire police have revealed released a recording of a girl they believe called the Kingsmill Hospital in Sutton in Ashfield claiming she 'd had a baby . |
| 30 | If you have decided to use a mount , the card or fabric should be cut slightly smaller than the mount and then taped to it securely . |