Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built .
2 The critic necessarily has to take a manifesto into account .
3 The president still has to make a host of key decisions : how generous to make the benefits ; how to pay for the changes ; how much freedom to give the states and , above all , how to sell the package .
4 A well-informed horseman simply had to grasp the horse 's head firmly and give it a sharp turn and back him out of the area that had been contaminated by the jading substance .
5 Once the source text is understood , the translator then has to tackle the task of producing a target version which can be accepted as a text in its own right .
6 Dona never had to feel the pain , torment or be racked with guilt as Anna did .
7 As both flint and quartzite are practically homogeneous silica rocks , not subject to chemical weathering except by strong alkalis , it is difficult to resist the conclusion that in these examples , in spite of the experimental evidence , thermal expansion and contraction alone have effected the disintegration of the pebbles .
8 Plans were lodged with Arfon Borough Council in April but the council still has to make a decision .
9 His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique .
10 In the 100 metres Britain 's record was dismal — only our steeplechasers in the men 's track events had done worse — with just three medals : two bronze with George Ellis in 1954 and Peter Radford four years later , and one gold from the only British sprinter ever to have won the title , Jack Archer , exactly forty years earlier .
11 The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 .
12 The next mill downstream has had a variety of names over the years : Russell Mill , Lowes Mill and more recently , Malvern Mill .
13 It means the teacher only has to write a word once , in the teacher 's book , instead of thirty-plus times , once in each child 's book .
14 It was often difficult to get schools to provide even basic information such as the breakdown of subject choice by sex , and members of the team frequently had to extract the information themselves from school data .
15 The last team then has to say the word they had in mind .
16 Inlays may be very small in area and are often closely mixed with corrosion products from the metal into which the niello was set , so the analysis technique also has to distinguish the niello inlay from corrosion and the metal of the inlaid object itself .
17 Now whilst I might concur with that view if it was er well related to the A sixty four , in fact immediately adjacent to the A sixty four , I think given the criteria you 've got that the new settlement clearly has to avoid the greenbelt , I think that actually any of the locations being ten miles s sorry six to ten miles outside of the York urban area , would play little role in meeting the strategic employment needs of the urban area .
18 This cost factor alone has brought the power of a computer for storing , retrieving and processing information quickly and very efficiently to the wealth of small businesses and professions who previously could not even have considered computerisation .
19 Sir George Grey is reputed to be the first white person ever to have seen the Wandjina images in 1838 .
20 Bunny was frowning ; the woman , who the night before had worn a bow in her hair , stared obliquely at Meredith .
21 Before the court even has to consider the reasonableness of an exclusion clause , the party relying on the clause has to convince the court that the clause is drafted in such a way that it covers the breach in question .
22 A policeman then had to bring the traffic in all three lanes to a standstill while the motorist and his passenger crossed to safety .
23 On the positive side , at least one court recently has made an adoption order with a condition of access to grandparents with whom the child had important links .
24 Did n't Cloughie get done for doing something similar a few years ago when he chinned the Forest fan who 'd run on the pitch ( later kissed him but brought out one of the all-time commentators classics from Greavesie when he said ‘ It was the first time the shit really had hit the fan ’ ) .
25 This volume also has appended a poem ‘ On the Ruins of St. Austin 's , Canterbury ’ , which was published in the Kentish Gazette of 9 July 1774 and said to have been written sometime after Dixon was seventy-three years old .
26 The woman really had got the hots for her .
27 The week before had stretched the distance of a lifetime .
28 SHOOTING victim Jason Ward who discharged himself from hospital a month ago has had the plaster removed from his shattered limbs .
29 New container docks have been added nearer the sea at Seaford and new lifting machinery everywhere has reduced the number of dock workers from 16 000 to 4 000 in the last twenty years .
30 Government policy and company policy alike have to take a view of long term trends and possibilities , particularly in a future period that may see the UK 's decline as an oil exporter .
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