Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has attempted to compile machine-readable data either for teaching or research purposes will agree that such an undertaking impinges so greatly on our time and resources as to minimize our interest in providing support for other scholars who might become interested in our data . |
| 2 | This argument will be familiar to anyone who has attempted to introduce new concepts to those with skills in an associated ( but simpler ) paradigm . |
| 3 | Pennings ( 1985 ) is one of the few who has attempted to investigate strategic decision-making taking this simple fact into account . |
| 4 | ( b ) Contributory negligence This defence will apply in actions under the Act , and a visitor who has failed to use reasonable care for his own safety and that failure was a cause of his damage will have his damages reduced . |
| 5 | But in any case , the best proof of the pudding is in the eating — by which I mean that any one who has tried to help young poets over the years , whether in Britain or America , knows that Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction are what most of them most need to learn — no novelty , after all , since they can learn the same lessons from the preface to Lyrical Ballads , if they choose to . |
| 6 | The museum houses an informative display of stones , with some of the engraved patterns picked out in colour by the American artist Marianna Lines , who has tried to achieve authentic hues by using natural pigment dyes . |
| 7 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 8 | But it was you who had to fight to get double time for the men who worked on a Sunday . ’ |
| 9 | The Land court in Offenburg ruled on May 7 that Dieter Kaufmann , 37 , who had attempted to assassinate Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in October 1990 [ see p. 37763 ] , was mentally unfit to stand trial ; he was sent to a closed psychiatric hospital . |
| 10 | Conservatives who had claimed to prefer contributory pensions in 1908 faced outraged complaints from their constituents about the growth of bureaucracy and the cost to employers . |
| 11 | This is an area which has received considerable attention from feminists in recent years , particularly feminist architects and builders in groups such as Matrix , The Women and Built Environment Group and the Feminist Design Co-op , who have begun to challenge traditional attitudes and assumptions held within the architecture profession . |
| 12 | One of the best ways to do this is to study in depth particular people who have claimed to have religious experience . |
| 13 | For years now , at the Women 's Nutritional Advisory Service , we have been working with people who have needed to make dietary changes for the sake of their health . |
| 14 | From our earlier discussion it is evident that opinion is divided amongst those who have tried to evaluate national programmes . |
| 15 | May I , through your august columns , apologise to all those climbers who have tried to locate MOT-While-U-Wait-Garage Crag , Selside , Cumbria , credited as my discovery in a Lakes Report . |
| 16 | He added that there was no help for 8,600 young people who have failed to obtain guaranteed youth training places . |
| 17 | Chandos , as narrator , describes the two who have agreed to remain loving friends with the luscious approval that ‘ suddenly faced with life in the midst of death , two natures so alike and so peerless should have comforted each other ’ ; they have in fact exchanged a kiss . |
| 18 | Welcome back : Coming up , the hotelier who 's had to hire French staff because nobody here wants the work . |
| 19 | It was extended , however , to include exiled left-wing leaders , 40 of whom had agreed to renounce armed struggle in order to return to the country by May 1991 . |
| 20 | According to Swarbrick 's Old and New Edinburgh : ‘ In the long roll of its scholars are the names of all professions in every branch of science and literature many of whom have helped to form British India . |