Example sentences of "[verb] had [noun] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |
| 2 | It should be taken first thing in the morning , before it has had time to be increased by exertion , mental excitement , eating , or stimulants like tea , coffee or nicotine . |
| 3 | Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day . |
| 4 | Anyone who has had access to classified work produced by the scientific civil service is likely to endorse this view . |
| 5 | One of the American complaints against Japan is that Japan has had access to US government-funded research while denying foreign companies access to research funded by the Japanese government . |
| 6 | The prisoner has been at his own trial and he already knows , or has had access to , all the evidence and all that was said . |
| 7 | The author , investigative journalist David Leigh , has had access to unpublished trial records and secret Whitehall files , and says that ‘ Ministers have been getting away with murder . |
| 8 | Eliot summoned Mona and asked whether she 'd had access to the computer while working for MacQuillan . |
| 9 | However , even if I 'd had access to the book at the time — he gave a signed copy to Mrs Goreng when he left and another to the American woman journalist , which I accounted a waste-it would not have been wise to argue . |
| 10 | Local authorities would be well advised in future to preface all their decisions with the words : ‘ Having had regard to all relevant matters and having disregarded all irrelevant matters , and having considered the interests of all those likely to be affected , resolved that' etc . |
| 11 | They must have known and must have had present to their minds all that . |
| 12 | Since they were in bed the query was ambiguous , and might have had reference to what had gone before . |
| 13 | Under normal conditions a male dominance hierarchy would have been previously established and only the dominant male would have had access to the receptive female . |
| 14 | It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language . |
| 15 | If one were to include other categories of ‘ news ’ , such as ‘ Law , police and accidents ’ — a category excluded from the public affairs one — then the reader would have had access to substantial amounts of information about the outside world . |
| 16 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd where they would have had access to MS-DOS . |
| 17 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation . |
| 18 | In so doing he may have had access to local traditions . |
| 19 | The fact that the Rousset copyist must have had access to some manuscript source for Eckard now lost lends a certain credence to the hypothesis that the pieces on pp.go and 92 may be by him . |
| 20 | It is ironical to contemplate what this economy measure could have meant to the University had the test-tube fusion work succeeded : of the billions of dollars in royalties , Southampton — where Pons had got his start in the field and where Fleischmann had spent over twenty years — would have had claim to none . |
| 21 | No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in . |
| 22 | They argued that the principles he adopted had been politically motivated and should have had regard to the spending needs of each authority . |
| 23 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 24 | The interest is in the fact that Kellner seems to have had access to earlier version of works in sources that no longer survive , and Stinson is very adroit at disentangling and reconstructing Bach 's original conceptions . |
| 25 | Interesting that both women seemed to have had access to more money than you would expect . |
| 26 | Full though these are , they are not always very helpful — much of the chronicle material depends on hearsay , although the author of the Anonimalle Chronicle seems to have been an eye-witness of events in London or at least to have had access to some eye-witness account . |
| 27 | It was a small Polytechnic , had a history of poor local authority support , and the CNAA had had occasion to be critical of it as an academic community . |
| 28 | It was the first time that Venezuela had had recourse to the IMF . |
| 29 | At work , given that , despite her de glamorisation , she had had cause to cold-shoulder one Lothario from Purchasing and another from Sales who had been fresh beyond what she thought acceptable , she was quite contented with her lot . |
| 30 | After being shown around the factory , Mr Hunt said that as a father of four he had had cause to be thankful for the company 's products . |