Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It can be argued that there is a clear difference between finding that Parliament has failed to follow its own procedural rules and from saying that Parliament does not have the power to legislate in a particular way .
2 The Board has had to weather its own political upheavals and adjust to changing circumstances .
3 But , under threat , my Creator has agreed to make me this Eve with whom you interfere , uncovering her nakedness .
4 ‘ So if it appears that the Princess has contrived to bring her own marriage down then that is not the case at all , ’ says Penny .
5 A spokeswoman claimed that Itoh had been involved in discussions with Sun regarding OEM supply of the X-terminal built by C Itoh , but Sun had decided to go its own way .
6 At one time the Institute had intended to establish its own college for training , and this was still essential .
7 The apartment was prone to nocturnal visitations , for the teacher had neglected to inform her many lovers of her absence .
8 Clearly , if a person has contracted to buy his own goods from someone else , the contract can be set aside on the basis of mistake and any money paid over will be recoverable because of total failure of consideration .
9 He said he wished his father had lived to see it all .
10 Such imprecision creates the greatest problems within a legalistic approach to restrictive practices , where courts faced by inadequate definition have had to develop their own interpretations .
11 Elgar 's music had begun to mirror our own times .
12 ( It was reported in late April that the West German government had agreed to establish its own space agency , the Agency for Space Travel Affairs , with initial funding of $18,800,000 , to develop a reusable air-launched space shuttle . )
13 They told him they had heard that the doctor had managed to avoid them all by driving into the lamp post .
14 Could he on the other hand have borne to consign them all to Hell for ever , like Alcuin , the deacon of York , in a now notorious letter to the abbot of Lindisfarne , written about AD 797 : ‘ What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ’ he asked scornfully — Ingeld being a minor character in Beowulf .
15 And students at Darlington College of Technology have volunteered to paint his former British Rail wagon .
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