Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daly points out that the development of these words has tended to erase the female power once latent in their meanings . |
| 2 | Rightly or wrongly , the Pavillon des Arts has decided to emphasise the festive spirit of the time . |
| 3 | Indigenous organizations had threatened to boycott the presidential and congressional elections unless their demands were met . |
| 4 | The report stated that another 40 results were outstanding and that repeat elections were to be held in 20 constituencies where candidates had failed to receive the minimum number of votes . |
| 5 | Elections were thus scheduled for Nov. 18 in these five constituencies , and in seven others where candidates had failed to get the necessary minimum number of votes in the July 29 elections [ see p. 37656 ] . |
| 6 | Alternatively , from another perspective , the clergy had acted to preserve the old divisions . |
| 7 | Then , drinking champagne with journalists , he flew home to a Teheran in which his supporters had tried to re-erect the toppled statues of his father . |
| 8 | It was far worse for the Arabs whose homes lay in that part of Palestine in which the United Nations had decided to locate the new state of Israel . |
| 9 | Then I would find that the grass had carpeted the rubble and the bushes had begun to climb the torn traffic lights . |
| 10 | As one of Nonconformity 's most severe but incisive critics observed , ‘ powerful influences have intervened to elevate the corporate as opposed to the individualist aspect of dissent ’ . |
| 11 | Previous authors have attempted to convert the measured ionised calcium activity to the substance concentration of free calcium . |
| 12 | Perhaps unsure of exactly what to expect from Alsace wines , it seems British wine drinkers have tended to give the whole lot a miss . |
| 13 | On April 17 a Lebanese newspaper reported , citing Sudanese government sources , that the plotters had planned to reinstall the former President Jaafer al-Nemery and that the Cairo-based opposition umbrella group , the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) , had known of the plot and had sought to arrange a meeting between Nemery and Garang . |
| 14 | Leviticus , a person of such weapon-grade stupidity his mental faculties would probably have improved with the onset of senile dementia , left Scotland because the Conservatives had failed to reverse the Socialist reforms of the previous Labour government : railways still nationalised ; working class breeding like flies now the welfare state existed to prevent the natural culling by disease ; state-owned mines = intolerable . |
| 15 | Unlike the other three Cambodian factions , the Khmers Rouges had refused to facilitate the full deployment of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) in the areas under its control . |
| 16 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 17 | Further to the details given in the last Q.T. Notes , while four areas have agreed to supply the necessary helpers we would still be pleased to hear from anyone who could help . |
| 18 | After taking independent legal and accounting advice , the Trafalgar directors refused to accept the Panel 's view on the two key issues — the transfer of assets and the treatment of ACT — but in the face of a threat of legal action , the Panel announced that ‘ the directors have undertaken to make the appropriate changes and adjustments in the 1992 accounts to meet the Panel 's concerns ’ . |
| 19 | Cardus , however , feels the factory have made great strides forward with the chassis of the 1991 NSR which in recent years has failed to match the sweet handling of the Yamaha YZR . |
| 20 | The rebels had managed to seize the military headquarters and briefly take ‘ Pineapple Face ’ hostage . |
| 21 | All EC governments had undertaken to give the European Commission , by April 1 , detailed plans for achieving the EC 's target date for stabilising carbon dioxide emissions : by the year 2005 for us , and 2000 for the rest of them . |
| 22 | Successive British governments had failed to tackle the economic and social problems which the area suffered from . |
| 23 | We had almost half an hour of this , then brown , wet walls of rock closed us in , the sound of the engine grinding upwards reverberating in a deep cut , the foglights accentuating the macabre theatricality of our struggle up the path through which Pizarro and his four hundred armoured hidalgoes had climbed to destroy the Inca Empire half a millennium ago . |
| 24 | For others , aberrant leaders and the socio-economic conditions of the interwar years had combined to deny the full fruition of democratic government aspired to by so many Japanese . |
| 25 | These subsidies had helped to maintain the political control of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) in the state . |
| 26 | If Poland was backward it was not because the Poles wanted it so , but because Germany and the other partitioning powers had made it that way , and because the Allies had failed to provide the necessary capital to finance Poland to do the job they required . |
| 27 | British merchant banks had failed to see the enormous unfulfilled potential in Habitat and tended to regard it as one of those here-today , gone-tomorrow phenomena . |
| 28 | Sometimes Christians have tried to build the new Jerusalem on earth , and church history is littered with the debris of broken dreams , from the wreckage of Byzantium to the forgotten Puritan theocracy of New England . |
| 29 | Advances in molecular biology in recent years have served to emphasize the possible relationships between homoeopathy , immunology and genetics . |
| 30 | A number of investigators have failed to find the expected correlations between lack of support , stress and psychiatric disorder shown in Figure 7.1 . |