Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun] called " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using simple tones to represent words , Herman has taught a dolphin called Akeakamai ( Lover of Wisdom ) to recognise some 40 or 50 verbs and nouns , which can be combined into more than 1000 different sentences . |
| 2 | Meyer Raphael Rubinstein , an independent curator , has organised a show called ‘ Hands and Eyes : Modeled Sculpture ’ for Barbara Toll ( 9 May–6 June ) . |
| 3 | In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ . |
| 4 | Every employee , for example , has attended a course called ‘ How to solve a problem ’ . |
| 5 | Claire Gallois , 55 , a blonde , slim , rather beautiful novelist , has written a tract called The Dangerous Years . |
| 6 | Until 27 March at Ronald Feldman , a gallery that seems to specialise in the genre , Todd Siler ( who holds a combined doctoral degree in neuroscience and art and who has written a book called Breaking the Mind Barrier ) has devised a tableau he calls ‘ Radical Futures ’ . |
| 7 | In an effort to rid aviation of this problem a Christchurch company , Penny & Giles Avionic Systems Ltd , has produced a device called Contran . |
| 8 | This has produced a file called ‘ A ’ which is marked as ‘ hidden ’ . |
| 9 | So Mr Eigen has founded a group called Transparency International ( TI ) which held its inaugural meeting in Berlin on May 4th-6th . |
| 10 | The upcoming Unix Expo in September has scheduled a session called ‘ The Killer Application for Unix : The InterNet . ’ |
| 11 | Its hard to see that there will be much demand for it at that price , but AT&T Co has introduced a phone called Picasso Still Image Phone , which enables people that both have one to transmit television-quality colour still images over standard phone lines while still talking to each other — but it costs a cool $3,300 for one ; Picassos will be installed at 39 Marriott convention hotels under an agreement with Washington , DC-based Marriott Corp and AT&T is looking into co-operating on image technology with Eastman Kodak Co — the phone , designed mainly for advertising , design and photography agencies , will work with the Kodak 's Photo CD system . |
| 12 | The Birmingham extravaganza was organised by the Department of Education and Science , which has run a scheme called the Microelectronics Education Programme ( MEP ) for the past three years . |
| 13 | The Alzheimer 's Disease Society has published a book called Exchanging ideas . |
| 14 | She mentioned a conference at Lancaster University , where she 'd given a talk called ‘ Bringing Spirituality into Organizations ’ . |
| 15 | I would have picked number one you see and erm of course there was the er I knew the name Barbara erm and knew she 'd got a shop called Hitched in Northampton er er anyway when I was in the library I thought well I 'll just see if Hitched is in the telephone book you see , and it was . |
| 16 | Edward Lear , too , would have felt at home in Bletchley 's realm of Complete Nonsense ; and he would even have found a friend called Foss . |
| 17 | I had manufactured a woman called Elsie . |
| 18 | No one — absolutely no one — had seen a man called Kennedy arrive , or known anything about a man with that name . |
| 19 | He was not , in fact , an exponent of the martial arts , but for a few short but character-forming weeks during a university summer vacation he had boxed a kangaroo called Cobber in a travelling circus . |
| 20 | Suppose you had written a function called FN_discount to calculate the discount price from the normal retail price . |
| 21 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 22 | You may have a list of directories as well , off the root directory , and then you 've got a directory called One Two Three One Two Three programs in . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've got a man called Roberto Sabortini to thank for that . |
| 24 | I mean , we 've got a lad called Morgan |
| 25 | I 've got a band called THE STRAWBERRIES and we are pretty good , blah , blah , blah … something like a hybrid of REM and Motorhead . |
| 26 | We 've got a thing called The Changed Man , er little handout . |
| 27 | I mean we 've got a font called Dryden , which is Scotch-Roman as Monotype call it and it would do it . |
| 28 | I 've got a file called income two , and let me just erase what 's here first of all . |
| 29 | She had had a fan called Mrs Mayer to tea . |
| 30 | He had brought a boy called Jay to meet her , in exactly the way Arthur had taken her to meet his mother all those years ago . |