Example sentences of "[adj] have [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Transport Act 1980 has attempted to encourage private operators to enter passenger transport under the philosophy that more competition will lead to better services . |
| 2 | Variable analysis is an inferential structure , a form of methodological reasoning , that has come to dominate social research . |
| 3 | This has helped to unite deaf people and provides a common experience as well as common linguistic structure on which to draw . |
| 4 | This has tended to reinforce dominant assumptions that employment is of lesser importance to young women because they will only get married and have children later and consequently that young women were of lesser importance to the sociologist . |
| 5 | This has tended to replace previous strategies such as " Imagine you were " Documents can offer stimulus and provide the sort of concrete detail and differentiation which are necessary for a successful exercise on empathy . |
| 6 | Relatively few had bothered to examine Green Party policy in detail , and most were unaware that the party was hostile to the EC and proposed reducing consumption in the interests of conservation . |
| 7 | Provisional details for other constituency parties up to March this year show that , while some have failed to meet highly-optimistic quotas , others have done much better . |
| 8 | The French and British governments are following exactly the opposite policies on production in the public sector ; the French have nationalised an additional 12% of industrial output while the British have begun to sell public assets to the private sector and to plan a vigorous programme of privatisation over the next few years . |
| 9 | On appeal by the Crown , it was found that the Lord Ordinary had failed to give proper weight to Taxes Management Act 1970 , in particular that interest on overdue tax was to be treated as if it were tax charged and due and payable under the assessment to which it related . |
| 10 | Talks with commercial bank creditors over two days were reported on June 21 to have failed to produce concrete results . |
| 11 | A relatively small number of these have come to occupy focal positions in discussions of lexical semantics ( such relations as antonymy , hyponymy and synonymy ) , and they form correspondingly prominent topics of the present and succeeding chapters . |
| 12 | These latter had to go to provide matching bricks for the new rooms and the space needed for the next stage in the expansion , a new Gymnasium beside the 1962 Pavilion . |
| 13 | Many have begun to question rigid distinctions between fact and value , and the revolution toward a greater appreciation of the intrinsic value of all life is well under way . |
| 14 | Many of those concerned about the ignorance and marginalization of Christianity in numerous schools have failed to state publicly what is insightful about the multi-faith approach , and those convinced of the appropriateness of the latter have tended to display similar insensitivity towards the former . |
| 15 | In 1821 Alexander I had tried to stop foreign powers fishing and whaling between the Sea of Okhotsk and Russian Alaska , but in 1824 he modified his policy in the light of the United States ' promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine . |
| 16 | Darlington FC and championship favourites Manchester United have agreed to record special tapes for 20-year-old Michael Gibson . |
| 17 | The valiant work of the late Robin Best has failed to dispel popular images , yet his figures showed that the annual average transfer of agricultural land to urban land use in England and Wales was only 9,300 hectares between 1975 and 1980 ( compared with 17,500 between 1945 and 1950 , and 25,100 between 1931 and 1939 ) . |