Example sentences of "have [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the owner 's agent , Robert Holden , the owners offered to give the house and land in exchange for £1.8 for the contents , which would have formed an enhanced tax douceur . |
| 2 | The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope . |
| 3 | This would have given an identical set of equations , but with V being replaced by - V , and P 3 by P 2 . |
| 4 | Minister Walsh said he could have given an identical speech . |
| 5 | And he said Tory plans would have placed an additional £20 per person on the annual bill . |
| 6 | The Government 's aim is to decide all cases within a matter of months so that all those affected do not have to wait an inordinate length of time to ascertain their legal status in the U K. It 's obvious to everyone not too blind to see that such changes are vital to the mounting pressures on the existing system |
| 7 | Which would probably have cheered an angry Oz reader , who signed himself ‘ J.F. ’ in a letter to the magazine that year . |
| 8 | You will have to wear an identifying red or white belt either in place of your normal grade belt or in addition to it . |
| 9 | ‘ Had the increase in pensions been in line with inflation in the 12 months ending April 1989 , a single person with the basic state pension would have received an additional £44.20 and a couple another £72.80 during the year , ’ said Mrs Greengross . |
| 10 | In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons . |
| 11 | Backs and forwards then have their final session together , rather than apart , and by tomorrow morning McGeechan will have completed an extraordinary preparatory workload . |
| 12 | Mmmn , that would have to include an away win . |
| 13 | What can be seen is that Parliament can not have intended an implied limitation along the lines of Ex parte Blain , 12 Ch.D. 522 . |
| 14 | In future any referrer will have to provide an agreed minimum data set . |
| 15 | Any alternative coding technique suggested would have to provide an acceptable trade-off between the reduction of the number of candidates , and selecting the correct word . |
| 16 | In Britain , under PR , no government since the Second World War would have won an overall majority . |
| 17 | Wasim Akram finished with 6 for 67 and an uncontrollable grin , and must have felt that this , of all his dramatic performances , must have won an important match . |
| 18 | We do implement such measures where we believe that it is right to do so , but we have opposed the working time directive , for example , because it could have added an extra £5 billion to British industry 's costs . |
| 19 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |
| 20 | That ‘ agnostic ’ , which sounded fair enough to Mr Kantor , could have carried an explosive charge across the oceans . |
| 21 | My father would have expected an abject apology from me , I assure you , before he condescended to write . ’ |
| 22 | But precisely in that act of consignment you may have committed an unconscious iconoclasm — for each of the above-mentioned artists at one time or another personally designed his own exhibition announcement . |
| 23 | Last year , so piqued was I by this , that I plunged the outsize handbag of an excessively bossy senior stewardess from Central Office into a fire-bucket of water on the grounds that it could have contained an incendiary device . |
| 24 | We must have looked an odd bunch to any passing motorist catching us in his headlights . |
| 25 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) The smaller company will invariably have to pass an ordinary resolution increasing its authorised share capital and giving its directors authority to allot new shares under CA 1985 , s80 in order to give effect to the share exchange ( a s89 disapplication will not be necessary as the new share issue will be for a non-cash consideration ) . |
| 27 | ‘ When you did n't show up to see Kirsty off to school this morning , I thought you might have caught an early flight back to London . ’ |
| 28 | Borg had enjoyed what he may well have considered an unrepeatable run of success ; perhaps he thought it was all downhill from there . |
| 29 | Yet if his character had been different he would have attracted an ordinary-looking girl . |
| 30 | In that case , as already suggested , the contract will also have to contain an express exclusion of the implied condition . |