Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In swimming — the single most popular physical recreation after walking — the importance of teaching children to swim has drawn in some women and competitive swimming is a very important sport for girls . |
| 2 | Food costs appear to have risen at both establishments , even though Marie has secured improved terms from the suppliers . |
| 3 | This reluctance to share information is alleged to have led to several disasters where information was not passed to the right people in time , and where one organisation arrested the informants of another by accident . |
| 4 | And , having chosen them , we are going to have to stick to those priorities — and we will . ’ |
| 5 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 6 | In modern times , the demands we make have changed in some ways . |
| 7 | The gridded diagrams show very clearly that an Edwardian cyclist , lacking the eighteen gears of a modern mountain-bike , would have had to dismount on several occasions along the Earsdon Mill ( West Linkhall section of the route ) . |
| 8 | We challenge the need for the alarm — almost panic — which the increased rate of survival of so many more people into their ninth and tenth decades appears to have evoked in some quarters . |
| 9 | Despite their displaying a generalised and largely self-sufficient subsistence economy , precious metals and other valuable goods are known to have moved between such communities . |
| 10 | ( Even in the cause of evasion , Aveling was not known to have spoken to any workers during the course of his tour . ) |
| 11 | Finally the th county picked up its responsibility again but the damage had been done and er grass cutting never seems to have recovered in some areas on the that I 'll just try to describe in a few words . |
| 12 | Excitement indeed ! and it even caught up a sober and spiritually distanced Quaker who could not " find words sufficient to draw it in colours strong enough " but has left a useful description of a phenomenon which seems to have lasted for several weeks , " when the great noise subsided , but the fire still existed " . |
| 13 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 14 | ‘ Value billing ’ should , in theory , be a consequence of the value-added auditing service that most firms claim to have offered for several years . |
| 15 | The records of salt imports are incomplete , and the only tables which can be compiled have to draw on several years in any period to include all the ports involved . |
| 16 | You do have to think about both aspects , and many people who are concerned with one area tend to think less about the other area . |
| 17 | Detectives said the fire appeared to have started in several places at once . |
| 18 | Last-minute amendments curbing some of the President 's powers of veto over legislation and of authority to impose states of emergency as set out in the draft law appeared to have won round many opponents . |
| 19 | Plant material is poor in nutritive value , and difficult to digest , and herbivores have had to adapt in several ways to make the most of it . |
| 20 | ‘ Regrettably we have had to live for several years with the threat of these appalling incidents happening . |
| 21 | I have rarely seen the House so unanimous in warmth and affection , and especially in its understanding of the severe ordeal that one of our colleagues and his family have had to endure for many months . |
| 22 | Relative to the other opportunities that I have had to speak on such occasions , however , this is a lower grade privilege because the Bill has been extremely boring . |
| 23 | The Dean of St Patrick 's had strolled through these streets with muddied cloak , doffing his beaver hat in salute to the fond greetings of beggar and artisan . |