Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 2 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 3 | At least one member of the jury said he would not have given a sentence of death ( which must be unanimous ) had he known that Prejean had suffered prolonged mental and physical abuse from his guardians . |
| 4 | The judge applied a multiplier of 12 years ; and he said that he would have given a multiplier of ten , but he gave 12 to protect against the possibility of future inflation . |
| 5 | Somebody who knew us must have given a list of our names to the Germans , and it must have been somebody from Fontanellato . |
| 6 | Anyone over the age of 50 , and in some fields over the age of 45 ( younger for women ) , should have given a lot of thought to answering an interviewer 's question about age . |
| 7 | Lord save us , I would have given a bag of silver for the sounds and smells of old Cheapside ! |
| 8 | Although I might have layered a lot of notes on one part it 's still basically , say , a D minor chord or whatever . |
| 9 | Those who trudged dutifully to the polls yesterday to mark their perforated ballot papers with an ‘ X ’ in the appropriate box , or who sat through last night 's results with only black coffee for company , would have witnessed a tableau of restrictive practices and old spanish customs fit to warm the heart of the most backward-looking member of Nalgo . |
| 10 | They must have heard a lot of wonderful music-making . |
| 11 | To obtain this you must have flown a minimum of 35 hours and there are medical exams and ground exams to be taken . |
| 12 | Too much exclaiming and protesting would have aroused a degree of doubt as to his sincerity , but Herluin clearly felt that here was nothing worse than some confused stupidity among too many helpers in too much panic and haste , and what was lost would be found as soon as everyone calmed down and halted the hunt for a while to take thought . |
| 13 | Ramsey asked himself whether if the electors had been the university officers without the bishop they would have regarded a man of one book as electable . |
| 14 | People indeed talked privately about the waste of government money , the lack of respect for public property , and it is possible that government might have regarded a discussion of that issue alone as constructive criticism : Kufrans were not sure . |
| 15 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 16 | The document should have provoked a number of doubts in your mind . |
| 17 | But wheats are very slow to turn and have developed a lot of ear disease during recent damp weather , reports Mr Lister . |
| 18 | We had an officer here wanting you to make a statement , but he 'll have to wait a couple of days . |
| 19 | The electronics industry will have received a total of 5.7 billion ecus from Brussels between 1990 and 1994 , with additional money from national coffers . |
| 20 | If BP boss Sir Peter Walters had been paid the same proportion of sales he would have received a salary of £8.1billion . |
| 21 | Under the STV as well as in an exhaustive ballot a candidate doomed to exclusion may have received a number of votes that is substantial and only marginally smaller than the number received by the candidate next above him in the relevant count . |
| 22 | On the sale of the 4 contracts the investor would have received a revenue of 1,400 less a sales brokerage of 12.50 . |
| 23 | You will have received a copy of my handwritten ‘ Functional Specification ’ in which I have tried to take account of all the comments made during our session in Paris but have been somewhat hampered by the fact that I , too along with David and Geoff , have not been able to make the latest set of disks run . |
| 24 | Businesses identified by Customs as needing to complete SSDs should have received a copy of the Intrastat Classification Nomenclature , which provides classification codes for goods to be recorded on the SSDs . |
| 25 | You should have received a copy of this , but in case it has been mislaid , another is attached . |
| 26 | You should by now have received a copy of the Committee 's decision and the Director of Planning 's report . |
| 27 | We 're concerned that the that the Local Authorities of this land , including should have received a demand of twelve a twelve percent minimum for A P T and C , and a minimum wage of nine thousand three hundred and thirty , a level much higher than the Labour Party 's own national minimum wage , and indeed higher than the T U C's definition . |
| 28 | Their relatively smaller personal estates reflect perhaps more than anything else a generally modest standard of living in the shires , for while the greater apparent wealth of some yeomen consisted mainly of farming stock , a big landowner , burdened with a large family and heavily encumbered estates , might find himself compelled to endure a spartan existence ; unlike a yeomen , moreover , he might have to support a train of unproductive servants . |
| 29 | Watkins ' fear is that if UI extends the Unix RoadMap to include conformance with SVR4.2 — technology which UI helped conceive and encouraged USL to develop — SunSoft would have to implement a bunch of APIs which are inconsistent with its own operating system releases to maintain RoadMap conformance . |
| 30 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |