Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canada 's provinces have agreed to appoint a three-man commission to investigate the efficiency , safety , and management of the country 's blood-supply system . |
| 2 | More recently , certain local authority organizations have begun to take a direct interest in popular music . |
| 3 | MRI may also be useful as a problem solving exercise when other imaging methods have failed to resolve a specific clinical problem relating to malignant disease . |
| 4 | However , most Japanese businessmen acquainted with foreigners have come to expect a certain variety within reasonable limits in the dress of foreign businessmen . |
| 5 | For the umpteenth time they have arisen because Labour nominees have failed to attend a single meeting in the previous 12 months . |
| 6 | WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party . |
| 7 | Under pressure from the European Community , the two countries have agreed to operate a temporary water management scheme , which aims to reconcile the Slovakian need for increased energy with Hungary 's fears about environmental impact . |
| 8 | But now these incidental catches have come to present a major danger to cetacean populations . |
| 9 | So , you know , if you 're going to talk in terms of losses , then it does suggest , heaven forbid that the allies have got to lose a tremendous number of aircraft before the equation sort of balances . |
| 10 | In particular , the large romanized buildings have tended to dominate a disproportionate amount of past excavation at the expense of the more vernacular structures , even though recent evidence has begun to redress the balance . |
| 11 | The banks have tended to choose a lower liquidity ratio over the years , and certainly a lower cash ratio . |
| 12 | Eight Kent families have failed to get a High Court order forcing two health authorities to hold an independent review of complaints about consultant paediatrician Heather Richardson . |
| 13 | I do n't know which is the more satisfying sight – the laden tables at the beginning or the empty ones at the end , after all our customers are gone and we are left happy in the knowledge that our efforts have helped to raise a wonderful total for Christian Aid . ’ |
| 14 | For example , in Conservative Ealing , tenants have had to face a 100 per cent . |
| 15 | From the 1966 census , but with analyses pushing back to 1961 , several major studies have attempted to use a wide range of census data grouped in new and more functional ways to depict the spatial characteristics of the British population . |
| 16 | In contrast , several controlled studies have failed to show a protective effect of somatostatin or octreotide in ERCP induced pancreatitis . |
| 17 | Yet , even in opposition circles , intellectuals have refused to take a principled stand . |
| 18 | Among western specialists many revisionist arguments have begun to gain a wide measure of acceptance . |
| 19 | Following the submission of a Gallup report on the matter the BPI have decided to instigate a full investigation with hearings set for early September . |
| 20 | The Spaniards have managed to build a supreme ugly restaurant-cum-souvenir-shop on their side of the frontier , in a style of architecture suggesting its easy conversion , should border warfare ever one day replace tourism , into a defence post . |
| 21 | New post : Wirral councillors have agreed to create a new post for a recycling assistant to boost the council 's recycling effort . |
| 22 | This approach does not preclude analytical discussion of the musical notes themselves ( some critics have appeared to erect a false antithesis between contextual and notes-based history ) , and the author has judged very well how much space to devote to purely musical matters and how deeply to go into technicalities . |
| 23 | THE Americans have agreed to open a temporary office in Hanoi . |
| 24 | When considering whether the Revolution should be seen as a victory for Whig principles or not , historians have tended to take a constitutional frame of reference — the more a particular historian believes the Revolution settlement limited the constitutional powers of the Crown , then the more Whiggish the Revolution is said to be . |
| 25 | Since then tests have developed to cover a wide variety of abilities and people of all ages . |
| 26 | Once the knocker boys have decided to hit a particular area , they will check into a good-class hotel and begin a leaflet drop . |
| 27 | While British surfing in recent years has developed into Day-Glo sporting fantasy , into pipeline boasts in city pubs , and into Newquay , Newquay , Newquay — booming as the ‘ surf capital ’ of Britain — these boys have looked to carve a different route . |
| 28 | As noted in our discussion of the optimum size of clubs , the arrival of an additional individual reduces the taxes that existing residents have to pay to finance a given level of expenditure . |
| 29 | Over here the ball turns and our batsmen have had to learn a new technique in five weeks . |
| 30 | As the competition for deposits between profit-seeking banks and building societies has intensified , these institutions have started to offer a wide range of accounts , with varying terms and conditions , including different interest rates . |