Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Fortunately , the unification of East Germany and West Germany has given Celtic a late entry into Europe .
2 His 1923 review of Ulysses ends by stating that a combination of psychology , ethnology , and Frazer 's Golden Bough has made possible a new method of artistic construction .
3 ( Smith 1982 : 5 ) This shift in official church policy has made possible a greater integration of religious and secular values and also the move from legitimisation of the existing social structures towards the promotion of greater equality .
4 In spite of its pernicious effects television has made possible a degree of political education and communication between politicians and voters that was not possible years ago .
5 of total inward investment by the United States and Japan in the European Community has made possible a diversified economic base , particularly in manufacturing in the north .
6 For its part , the city has made available a site overlooking the Rickmers shipyard and will cover all the costs of creating and equipping a sculpture park .
7 Subsequently , the MBC has made available a number of new premises for rent to processors and has generally tidied up and improved the area using Industrial Improvement Area procedures .
8 But the boom in hymn publishing has made available a great variety of material , from Roman Catholic , Free Church and Lutheran sources amongst many others .
9 Another factor is the rapid development of integrated circuit technology , which has made available a wide range of circuit functions at attractive prices , so that it is even realistic to assess the potential advantages of microprocessor.based control .
10 The University has made available a number of Hardship awards for students facing particular financial difficulties during the course of their studies .
11 Kylie — one of the world 's most travelled 21-year-olds — has kept secret a phobia which has always haunted her .
12 He actually had the ball in the net in the first half : City were playing a very boring offside game , Whelan thought he 'd got free a few yards inside the city half , but with Coton bearing down on him , he was judged offside .
13 John Smith tried to kill off such speculation by emphasising that in a general election last week 's results would have given Labour a majority of 87 .
14 Mm it 's rather sweet , perhaps it would have looked nice a bit further down .
15 Then the figure spoke again , and Jim 's heart leapt like he would never have thought possible a few nights earlier , as he recognised the nasal drawl of the red-neck trucker called Jube .
16 Increased oil revenues in 1990 [ see p. 38071 ] accounting for a rise in foreign exchange allotments for several industries , were reported to have made possible a three-fold increase in car production , announced by the Ministry of Heavy Industries on Aug. 6 .
17 They had talked for a while then he had given Green a lift back to his hotel .
18 Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys .
19 On June 13 ETA members had shot dead a retired army colonel , José Lasanta Martínez , ( 74 ) in the town of San Sebastián .
20 For all his shortcomings Largo Caballero was the only political figure with sufficient standing on the left to have any chance of harnessing the revolution to the cause of victory ; his advocacy of ‘ Workers ’ Alliance' between 1934 and 1936 had helped to dissipate some of the mutual antagonism which had previously soured his relations with the CNT , while his role as the ‘ Spanish Lenin' during 1936 had made possible a close relationship with the Spanish Communist Party .
21 It had become obvious a few years back that this was a problem for Britain .
22 Pages that had seemed worthless a few days before were now pored over , in the hope that they 'd yield some clue , encoded in the fanciful excesses of Chant 's idiosyncratic and ill-punctuated prose , that would lead him to some fresh comprehension of the times and their movers .
23 However , recent technological advances have made possible a robot which can be programmed to carry out a range of services on command .
24 More recently still , hardware developments have made possible a radically new approach to computation , wherein parallel processing by dedicated ( as opposed to general-purpose ) hardware is used to compute properties previously assumed to require highly abstract sequential processing .
25 The figure of Francisco Franco and his political talent , like his military talent before , have made possible a situation in which we may look to the future with optimism .
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