Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Page 33 Switch applications : Barclays and Lloyds banks have applied to join the Switch debit card network . |
| 2 | On April 7 the 32-strong UK Conservative group in the EP joined the Christian Democratic European Popular Party ( EPP ) group , bringing its numbers to 162 as compared with 180 for the largest group , the Socialists.The Conservatives had asked to join the EPP group after the 1989 European elections but protracted negotiations had resulted from Belgian , Italian and Netherlands Christian Democrats scepticism about the Conservative commitment to Europe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The South Africans have threatened to kill the guerrillas who do not surrender , while insisting that for their part they have scrupulously observed the agreements . |
| 5 | Unfortunately South Africans have had to adopt the shambles of the international line-out . |
| 6 | Pentagon officials had hoped to have the bulk of their troops out of the country by the end of March . |
| 7 | With this came the news that the Barclay brothers had offered to buy the statue and were proposing to put it on show alternately in the V & A and the National Gallery of Scotland . |
| 8 | In Sweden employers have agreed to pay the fees of union orientated researchers/consultants on charge . |
| 9 | However , on balance a majority of UK economists have appeared to favour the discretionary cost-benefit approach or have thought the rules approach too dogmatic ( see e.g. Sutherland 1970 , Howe 1972 , Utton 1975 , Fleming and Swann 1989 , and George 1989 ) , and have tended to argue for a continuance of the present investigatory policy with some considerable strengthening of procedures . |
| 10 | Ward councillors had tried to improve the works for the last 12 years and were delighted planning permission was given , despite an officer 's recommendation to refuse . |
| 11 | Subsequent WHO initiatives have continued to extol the benefits of community participation and often , community empowerment , including the Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion and the Healthy Cities Project , which has spawned involvement of over 400 cities since 1987 ( Tsouros , 1991 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Recent summits between the major OECD economies have attempted to coordinate the fiscal and monetary policies of countries . |
| 14 | MCC bosses had hoped to deflect the rebels from insisting on the meeting , which will cost £17,000 and may well have to be held at a huge venue like Westminster Hall , by offering to pass on their views on the Gower affair to the selectors and the TCCB in an unprecedented letter of protest . |