Example sentences of "has [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But rather than fade quietly from view , Colin Angus has racked up a hit album , ‘ Boss Drum ’ , hit singles and , with ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ , orchestrated a good old-fashioned tabloid fuss into the bargain . |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 3 | The Polytechnic must find it all the more galling that a situation has developed whereby an institute of higher education has become a sub-centre of the Faculty of Education at Cardiff for training further education teachers , a role that is denied to the Polytechnic because it has lost its involvement in the professional training of teachers . |
| 4 | Thomas Adlercreutz of the Central Board of National Antiquities , Sweden , has pointed out an error in the guide to statutes of limitation published on page 2 of the last issue of The Art Newspaper . |
| 5 | A court in London has heard how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Clumber Park . |
| 6 | An inquest has heard how a footballer died in a scuffle with friends who were trying to stop him drink driving . |
| 7 | An inquest has heard how a man died in a scuffle with friends who were trying to stop him driving while he was drunk . |
| 8 | And Sheffield Crown Court has heard how a man allegedly kidnapped and raped his wife ; the man who ca n't be named for legal reasons , was separated from her at the time of the supposed attack , and the case is making legal history . |
| 9 | A court has heard how a father gunned down a drugs dealer who 'd been supplying his sons with cannabis . |
| 10 | An inquest has heard how a woman fell twenty five feet to her death from a lorry which crashed on a motorway bridge . |
| 11 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 12 | Lord Reid 's view that the restraint of trade doctrine only applies if the convenantor has given up a freedom which he previously possessed was supported by Lords Morris and Hodson . |
| 13 | Next door has given up a right of way that goes nowhere . |
| 14 | French tennis has given out a message . |
| 15 | ‘ French tennis has given out a message ’ , says Haguellar . |
| 16 | Any sane and workable approach to life obviously has to contain both an attitude to individuals and an attitude towards the whole . |
| 17 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 18 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 19 | The village has attracted only a trickle of visitors . |
| 20 | The Government still has to work out a points system whereby a cross-section of Hong Kong residents , whose skills are needed , will be given full British citizenship rights between 1992 and 1997 . |
| 21 | ‘ Chalon has picked up a stone . ’ |
| 22 | The wind has picked up a bit , and there is a light snow falling . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , SNI , armed with its new point-of-sale alliance with Sun ( UX No 436 ) , has picked up a $10m contract with US supermarket chain Kash n ’ Karry Food Stores . |
| 24 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 25 | Oh no what 's he Gavin Ward has picked up a back pass . |
| 26 | In the hunt DOUBLE Echo , easy winner of the Crawley Warren Handicap at York on Saturday , will make a quick reappearance in the Royal Hunt Cup next week , for which the gelding has picked up a 7lbs penalty . |
| 27 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 28 | The company has picked up a string of new applications for the manufacturing , financial and education markets to run under the HP MPE/iX operating system . |
| 29 | We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus . |
| 30 | Ingres Corp is claiming a world first for its Ingres/Enhanced Security relational database , which has picked up an Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria E3/F-B1 security rating . |