Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 2 | The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small . |
| 3 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 4 | The man in charge of Gloucestershire 's schools has had to prepare for the worst — though he hopes a compromise will be reached : |
| 5 | After the reorganization this part of the process seems to have worked relatively smoothly , but injustices appear to have occurred in the comparative chaos of the earlier period . |
| 6 | Thus , although incoming variants of both vowels appear to have originated in the same hinterland Scots dialect , each has assumed a diametrically opposed social value in its new urban setting . |
| 7 | It stemmed from the outbreak of Minamata disease among the Japanese who had eaten fish and shellfish containing substantial quantities of organic mercury compounds — found to have originated from the direct discharge of factory effluent . |
| 8 | The position of women is often considered to have improved during the last few decades . |
| 9 | Iraq was also reported to have invested in the Argentine Condor II and , possibly , the Brazilian SS-300 . |
| 10 | A second gunman was reported to have fired into the front row of the audience . |
| 11 | The EC sought co-operation against drug traffickers , and Mexico was reported to have inserted at the last minute a formula to safeguard its national jurisdiction in this area . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , some 20,000 Serbs in the area were reported to have fled across the Croatian borders to the neighbouring autonomous province of Vojvodina , part of Serbia , in an effort to escape the fighting . |
| 13 | The number of different visitors they were reported to have had during the last twelve months averaged 5.0 . |
| 14 | By the year 2010 it is expect to have doubled from the 1960 level . |
| 15 | In two important maize-growing areas , fewer than half of those interviewed had heard of the increased price , and in an area where the Government was keen to encourage a substantial increase in local production , less than one in ten had heard of the new prices . |
| 16 | In Gloucestershire the number of young offenders cuationed has risen in the last 2 years from 44% to 70% . |
| 17 | And of course the woman was n't really one of theirs , just some distant freelance , and the back-up with her was some nutty amateur they 'd had to use at the last moment — |
| 18 | She had an almost Germanic regard for order , and set about repairing the house , the stables , the outbuildings and conservatory with the willing and cheerful help of a small , dedicated band of local people , with whom she could relax and be herself , without putting up defences as she 'd had to do with the false Pyglings . |
| 19 | TENNIS champ John McEnroe yesterday slammed having to bow to the Royal box at Wimbledon . |
| 20 | On Oct. 11 five Polish nationals living in Frankfurt and Bochum were arrested when police uncovered consignments of radio-active caesium and strontium believed to have originated in the former Soviet Union . |
| 21 | Although the market would appear to have plumped for the Open Software Foundation 's Motif , Sun Microsystems Inc , the largest dedicated Unix system vendor , remains exclusively committed to its Open Look alternative in the Solaris operating system delivered with its machines . |
| 22 | A similar strategy of bureaucratisation would appear to have emerged during the inter-war period among Japanese employers , which was to some extent directly influenced by developments in the United States ( Taira , 1973 ) . |
| 23 | Although his brother , the Rev. Arthur Oakeley ( then squire of Lydham ) does not appear to have approved of the proposed Bishop 's Castle Railway and did not attend the Opening , Commander Henry Oakeley , R.N. ( Retd. ) was very interested . |
| 24 | there is a further letter from R Jasper More and one from a local person which I hope to have published in the next Journal . |
| 25 | One such group is GATT ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ) negotiators , who are felt to have concentrated on the economic consequences of trade restrictions , but neglected environmental ones . |
| 26 | He reached for his handkerchief and dabbed his forehead again — a cold , clammy sweat that only seemed to have surfaced in the last half an hour . |
| 27 | Frank seemed to have scored with the young lady too — some things never change . |
| 28 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 29 | She sensed trouble in this girl , who seemed to have taken in the entire community below in Knockglen . |
| 30 | The strain seemed to have got to the aged suspects . |