Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A while ago I said I 'd listened to a thousand , but the figure 's probably closer now to 2000 , ’ says Jim . |
| 2 | Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’ |
| 3 | I had said to a promising-looking man behind a counter , but it seems I should have said ‘ Cup of tea ’ and left it at that , for he put his hands on his hips and shouted , ‘ What 's stopping you ? ’ |
| 4 | Earlier , I had spoken to a Uruguayan woman and her boyfriend . |
| 5 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 6 | I 've come to a tremendous decision today . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , ’ the chief inspector went on , ‘ I 've come to a dead end . ’ |
| 8 | I feel I 've come to a full stop and so does Toby . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've spoken to a good few people who are very annoyed . ’ |
| 10 | Sloman ( 1978 ) straightforwardly argues for a conscious module or sub-part view , of just the sort I have opposed to a program-level view . |
| 11 | I have appointed to a new post — the director general of resettlement — Major-General Burden who has returned from the British Army on the Rhine . |
| 12 | Since the start of the project I have spoken to a large number of disabled people who often begin by describing their daytime occupation or the type of work they would like to do . |
| 13 | I have listened to a few of her tracks since and I like them . |
| 14 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 15 | Maybe I have succeeded to a small extent , but there 's still plenty I want to know . |
| 16 | The problem of childcare is aggravated by the high divorce rate ( over 60% in Moscow and 33% elsewhere ) which has led to a large number of single parent families . |
| 17 | An employee package has been developed which has led to a large proportion of the authority 's employees being paid by automated direct credit through BACS . |
| 18 | Veronica Forrest-Thomson — a brilliant though unstable poet and critic , who died tragically young in 1975 — referred in a review to the work of Barthes , Foucault , and Derrida ‘ which has led to a literary revolution in France and will lead — at last — to revolution in our theory and practice of literature in this country . ’ |
| 19 | It was an old sofa , but had been a good one in its day , made of soft leather which had worn to a comfortable softness . |
| 20 | In a general election on April 20 the largest of the four main parties , the conservative pro-European Communities Independence Party ( IP ) , recovered the votes which had gone to a breakaway liberal Citizens ' Party ( CP ) in the April 1987 elections [ see pp. 35138-39 ] , giving it twice the representation of the next-largest party . |
| 21 | Poultry had benefited from efficient , low-cost , intensive production systems which had led to a prize competitive product . |
| 22 | The persistent importance of the group , which had led to a strong sense of communal identity since the Tokugawa period , could also produce schism within society . |
| 23 | The legislation followed the 1987 world stock market crash which had led to a controversial four-day closure of the Hong Kong stock exchange and the subsequent arrest of a number of officials on corruption charges [ see pp. 35742 ; 36764 ; and below ] . |
| 24 | The status and function of these courts came into question during one of the most critical of these enquiries , that presided over by Lord Wilberforce in 1972 into the dispute about miners ' pay which had led to a widespread stoppage of work . |
| 25 | A general rise in crime had also been reported since the beginning of the year , following an amnesty which had led to a large number of convicted offenders being released from prison [ see p. 37192 ] . |
| 26 | Producer countries wanted to renegotiate the INRA to increase the minimum defended price for rubber to a level above the average production cost , and to allow more active intervention by INRO 's buffer stock manager to support prices , which had sunk to a five-year low by January 1992 . |
| 27 | Pundits are unanimous that recovery has arrived , but the string of statistics which have pointed to a vigorous upturn in the early part of the year have been greeted with caution . |
| 28 | Business failures , which have rocketed to a staggering 76 a day , should also decline . |
| 29 | Unfortunately for the interesting diversity of the old breeds , the Scandinavian nations have in recent years developed official breeding policies designed to create uniform national breeds by amalgamation , with the result that other breeds have largely been replaced and are now almost extinct , often making way for most untypical horned , pied breeds which have relied to a greater or lesser extent on imported Ayrshires and Friesians . |
| 30 | The Author of the poem and the Wanderer have gone to visit The Solitary , who has retired to a remote region usually identified with Blea Tarn , at the head of Langdale . |