Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer to the last question is , of course , the so-called Standby Credit which is really a form of performance guarantee which will only be drawn on in the event of default by the party who has contracted to perform some service . |
| 2 | Our thanks go to Chris Markham who has agreed to co-ordinate this event . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This argument will be familiar to anyone who has attempted to introduce new concepts to those with skills in an associated ( but simpler ) paradigm . |
| 5 | Pennings ( 1985 ) is one of the few who has attempted to investigate strategic decision-making taking this simple fact into account . |
| 6 | ‘ I LIKE to play the piano , ’ said the 24-year-old musical genius who has managed to cross all age barriers with his blend of nineties-style big band swing . |
| 7 | ( 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The ‘ fat oyster in the American story ’ probably refers to the story of a man struggling with a very large oyster in a stew , to whom the waiter says , ‘ Well , sir , you are the fourth man who has tried to swallow that oyster . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | erm so species are , in a sense , real things out there , they 're not an artefact of taxonomists who 've tried to force some classification onto organisms which do n't really have that nature . |
| 12 | Hearts skipper Craig Levein and midfielder Gary Mackay are the players who 've agreed to join two members of the supporters federation , one from the shareholders association and chairman Alex Kitson on the committee . |
| 13 | He seemed more brusque and hostile than on the previous day , a man whose nerves were beginning to fray , a man on whom the pressure was mounting and who had decided to exert some pressure of his own . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | FRENCH building contractors who had threatened to disrupt this weekend 's opening of the Euro Disney theme park in Paris yesterday reached an eleventh-hour truce with the company over cost overruns . |
| 16 | On Oct. 25 Bush , who had threatened to veto earlier drafts on grounds that employers would be forced to resort to hiring and promotion quotas for minorities and women , claimed that the compromise met his objections on this score . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Senator Dodd , who had attempted to bring more amphetamine use under control , argued that Hoffman-La Roche ‘ paid a Washington law firm three times the annual budget of the Senate subcommittee staff to assure that their drugs would remain uncontrolled ’ ( Graham 1972 : 22 ) . |
| 19 | I am aware of one educated patient , with known duodenal ulcer , who had started taking this medicine for headache , believing it to be Ayurvedic and despite the facts that it is labelled as containing 530 mg aspirin and 100 mg paracetamol and that he had been instructed by his doctor to refrain from all pain-relieving medications like aspirin . |
| 20 | This was partly due to the legacy of the bitterness over the 1990 budget [ see p. 36969 ] , but was also the result of an initiative made on Dec. 29 , 1989 , by Senator Daniel Moynihan ( Dem. , New York ) , who had suggested cutting social security contributions in an effort to make the US taxation system more progressive and to unmask the true size of the budget deficit . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The aim appears to have been two-fold : to reassert the authority of the crown to appoint to military commands and , by a ruthless dismissal of the majority of commanders who had come to assume such commands , to make the army once more an efficient weapon of state in royal hands . |
| 23 | Frigidity becomes the spectre hovering over this transition , should it not be properly accomplished , and the frigid woman was one who had failed to make this transference . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Latest of an endless line of east-coast politicos who have gone seeking Irish-American votes 3,000 miles still further east is Mr Harrison Goldin , comptroller and would-be mayor of New York city . |
| 26 | But people without a job who have found fulfilling voluntary work or an absorbing hobby also score highly . |
| 27 | One of the best ways to do this is to study in depth particular people who have claimed to have religious experience . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Although there have been philosophers — Leibniz is an obvious example — who have tried to reconcile this view with the idea of a pluralist ontology , it is clear that if conjoined with the principle of independence the doctrine of the internality of relations provides a powerful support for the monist thesis . |
| 30 | From our earlier discussion it is evident that opinion is divided amongst those who have tried to evaluate national programmes . |