Example sentences of "[det] [noun] have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 13 American drive manufacturers , after some hedging have also undertaken to build discs and drives to Sony 's brief . |
| 2 | In Fig. 3 the oldest branch ( c ) will soon have to be cut right back to the vine stump and it can be seen that the vigneron tending this vine has already decided to cultivate another branch ( b ) in preparation . |
| 3 | Some insurers have already decided to impose compulsory excesses to eliminate such claims . |
| 4 | Further , larger authorities are felt to have increased the influence of officials and — very important from a Conservative viewpoint — this influence has not helped to reduce expenditure . |
| 5 | For example , a problem defined as ‘ This child has Down 's Syndrome ’ is valueless when compared with a problem definition such as ‘ This child has not learned to use a spoon ’ . |
| 6 | Some workers have recently attempted to combine the statistical and the rule-based approaches in hybrid systems with promising results . |
| 7 | However , the attention lavished on the Conservative party , and especially on the Conservative Party 's ideas , in the past few years has only served to emphasize the relative neglect of Conservative history and Conservative thought before Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 9 | Checks carried out by the Inland Revenue on a sample of bank and building society accounts have revealed that some people have incorrectly registered to receive interest payments without deduction of income tax . |
| 10 | Checks carried out by the Inland Revenue on a sample of bank and building society accounts have revealed that some people have incorrectly registered to receive interest payments without deduction of income tax . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the fact that some patients had already failed to respond to tricyclics before entering the trial might have introduced a bias against this class of drugs . |
| 12 | Although the organization , in common with so many , has been forced underground , it is still secretly very active in channelling supplies to the controlled zones , where some members have now gone to work . |
| 13 | In an impassioned speech , Jacko begins , ‘ I think this is just about the most important question this union 's ever had to face . |
| 14 | Although only one in five of the mothers in this book had positively wanted to have a baby , and a few did n't mind , the rest had no particular wish to get pregnant and were rather shocked to discover that they were . |
| 15 | This cooperation has also served to strengthen the sole regulatory powers of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( CFTC ) , and has reinforced the opposition to a transaction tax proposal on futures transactions . |
| 16 | Will he now confirm that one side effect of the appalling poll tax is that more than a million citizens of this country have not registered to vote ? |
| 17 | Artists in this tradition have always striven to celebrate the present by prolonging it into the future . |
| 18 | This task has often seemed to combine the pedantry of library theory with the incomprehensibility of computer science . |
| 19 | The present Survey makes it clear that the continued circulation of such lists has again failed to stimulate the use of foreign-language publications . |
| 20 | In practice , however , such arrangements have often tended to cause further confusion ( particularly for consumers ) , as well as to create acrimony between the authorities concerned . |
| 21 | Sections of the pensions industry who advise such schemes have already started to protest . |
| 22 | This of course is not to exonerate outside influences in toto because even the most altruistic of such schemes have regularly failed to take into account the specific requirements of local groups and their inherent land-management skills . |
| 23 | Luke helped him through the door with a violent push and then slammed it after him , flicking the lock — something , Robyn realised with relief , that Callum had n't thought to do earlier . |
| 24 | It is hard to believe that Thucydides when he wrote these words had not lived to see at least the Spartan Thibron 's Asian expedition of 400 . |
| 25 | Runaways from these plantations have always tried to reach Saigon because it is the nearest big city . |
| 26 | In the context of social change brought about by migration to the United Kingdom , individuals belonging to these communities have often sought to develop voluntary associations which are not reducible to primary social ties of caste and kinship . |
| 27 | While use of mortality as the sole criterion of therapeutic efficacy in intensive care units is open to debate , these studies have all failed to show any cost benefit ; in one , selective decontamination of the gut doubled the total cost of antimicrobial drugs . |
| 28 | These children have deliberately tried to hurt their brothers and sisters with knives , pushing them out of windows or down stairs ( Rosenthal and Doherty 1984 ) . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the applications to the district judge and the application for judicial review of his decisions had all been made by the applicant in a criminal cause because they related to the manner in which the district court trials should proceed , and so his appeal was not from a judgment of the High Court judge in a civil cause or matter within section 13(2) ( a ) of the Ordinance ; and that , therefore , since no other provision had conferred jurisdiction on the Court of Appeal to entertain the appeal , that court had correctly declined to hear it ( post , pp. 256G , 260E–F , G–H ) . |
| 30 | The fact that many prisoners have routinely had to spend long periods in their cells without access to a toilet , having to use chamber pots and queue up to ‘ slop out ’ , has been a potent symbol of the squalor of British prisons . |