Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claiming that the two main candidates had failed to address seriously the urgent need to reduce the federal deficit , Perot said that he had re-entered the race in order " to put our financial house back in order " . |
| 2 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 3 | For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation . |
| 4 | Several authors have attempted to describe mathematically the various types of vegetative plant canopy . |
| 5 | Some countries have tried to slow down the exodus by insisting that players can not leave before a certain age , usually 28 , or until they have completed their national service . |
| 6 | Experimental evidence has provided some support for attitudinal and perceptual disturbances ; however , the current methodologies have failed to define adequately the body-image construct or to prove that disturbances are unique to anorexia nervosa . |
| 7 | The rebels have vowed to keep up the pressure on Mr Cristiani until his government agrees to negotiation that would lead to full guarantees for human rights and civil liberties , as well as the dismissal of several high-ranking army officers . |
| 8 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 9 | Quite simply , the earlier Regulations had failed to meet adequately the needs of liberal adult education in rural areas . |
| 10 | The finance divisional manager , Stephen Hughes , said 246 tenants had agreed to pay off the arrears in instalments , and it was hoped more would follow suit . |
| 11 | So far , however , the crofters in the Western Isles have preferred to purchase only the house sites and pass on their rights to their families , although in other areas where the land is better there has been greater interest in purchasing whole crofts . |
| 12 | Various Marxist-based studies have aimed to demonstrate how the law reflects economic interests , viewing the legal system as an instrument that supports the interests of the dominant class against threatening or disruptive behaviour . |
| 13 | Protesters have vowed to carry on the demonstrations despite the fact the tour has been given tacit approval by the African National Congress . |
| 14 | Papa and Mama , informed , were coming over , the lawyers had gathered to draw up the marriage settlement , everything seemed set fair . |
| 15 | And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way . |
| 16 | For many years scholars have tried to establish either the A or B text of the play as more authoritative . |
| 17 | VANDALS have tried to cut down the tree which has become a shrine to rock star Marc Bolan . |
| 18 | As a corollary , AI-workers have tended to play down the importance of neurophysiological knowledge about the brain . |
| 19 | I would n't have gone rush I mean some mothers have gone rushing up the school and complained . |
| 20 | If by some chance the Poles had agreed to hand over the city it is quite possible that even at this late stage NSDAP support in the city would have evaporated . |
| 21 | Now that the sun had come out , many of the spectators had stayed to see how the celebrities would perform after the fireworks of the professionals . |
| 22 | Suddenly the night had erupted into a confusion of fire , noise and light , as first the house had erupted in flames and then five heavy vehicles had come roaring up the twisting driveway , headlights blazing . |
| 23 | The Germans had intended blowing up the cellars of Champagne before retreating , but on 28 August 1944 they were caught napping as General Patton and his 3rd Army swept into Épernay . |
| 24 | By the end of the session the groups had started to map out the areas for questions to be used with the visitors . |
| 25 | The Dovercourt branch of the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders has volunteered to carry out the work free of charge and has even joined in raising funds . |
| 26 | Such books were published mainly in the 1920S and 1930S at a time when women had to learn to take over the running of their own homes , without the help of servants any longer , but still keeping middle- and upper-class standards . |
| 27 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 28 | Contractors Bernhards Rugby Sports Services have agreed to carry out the repairs at no extra cost to the local authority , said a council spokesman . |
| 29 | In return for the aid , the Bulgarian authorities have agreed to close down the plant 's four 440-megawatt pressurized water reactors , which lack containment facilities to enclose them in case of an accident , as soon as financially possible , perhaps by 1998 . |
| 30 | There is evidence of a stampede as meat-eating theropods attacked a herd of herbivorous hypsilophodontids browsing in a region of Australia , and some paleontologists have managed to work out the method of attack of the predators and the defensive posture of the herds . |