Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the answer that he has given on paying the guaranteed minimum pension to the Maxwell pensioners is wholly inadequate ? |
| 2 | Henry James was followed by the Benson brothers , E. F. Benson the novelist and A. C , for years Master of Oxford 's Magdalen College — I wonder if anyone has succeeded in editing the twenty-six volumes of autobiography he left . |
| 3 | In the event , minor engineering work to the existing twin-catalyst 6.7-litre pushrod V8 has succeeded in achieving the desired results . |
| 4 | Since it began using the gas phase process in 1979 , ICI has been at the forefront of process control and development and has succeeded in covering the whole product range with this new technology . |
| 5 | Can Sandra Bernhard ( FACE 48 ) seriously believe that , because it is she who is stripping for Playboy and not some ‘ subservient bimbo ’ , she has succeeded in subverting the soft-porn medium ? |
| 6 | Although so far no one has succeeded in interpreting the Etruscan language we can fully appreciate their sculpture , painting and craftsmanship . |
| 7 | The government has responded by increasing the military presence in the area , while the " Mindanao Defenders " , an irregular civilian paramilitary force of a type common in the Philippines , is beginning to intimidate the protestors . |
| 8 | Mutation has to work by modifying the existing processes of embryonic development . |
| 9 | Much of the data on the health effects of radiation has come from studying the surviving victims of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs , where the Japanese people 's exposure to radiation was of an extremely large dose in a matter of seconds . |
| 10 | These employ close to two-thirds of IBM 's 300,000 strong workforce : remember that Dell Computer Corp 's success has come from engineering the best , lowest-cost distribution strategy , not to a better product . |
| 11 | Even Roxburgh had to admit that over the last year , during which Ferguson has flirted with letting the latter trait get the better of the former , has brought the player an ‘ awareness of the tough , competitive business he is in . ’ |
| 12 | He is succeeded by Russell Planitzer , the company 's chairman and the leader of the buyout group that has struggled since acquiring the former parent , Prime Computer Inc in 1989 . |
| 13 | President , I would take this opportunity on behalf of the region to condra sorry , congratulate Nigel on the excellent work that he has done since becoming the National Health and Safety Officer . |
| 14 | To ask the Attorney-General what progress he has made in identifying the total cost of the ’ Spycatcher ’ litigation . |
| 15 | Whitlow coming in on that near post the goalkeeper was very decisive then and er has benefited by getting the free kick Tommy Wright . |
| 16 | Much research in computational linguistics has concentrated on treating the individual phenomena of natural language rather than on how these treatments can be made to work together . |
| 17 | At the same time , considerable effort has gone into promoting the economic development of the city 's disadvantaged areas . |
| 18 | It has gone in repaying the overseas debt that we inherited from the last Labour Government . |
| 19 | The Pope 's Vicar of Rome , Cardinal Ugo Poletti , has taken to scolding the Christian Democrats for their divisions which may bring victory for the secular parties and the Communists in city elections on 29 October . |
| 20 | Raskolnikov has admitted to visiting the old woman on the first occasion but of course not on the second . |
| 21 | The real problem is , as the Carnegie Foundation has realized since establishing the Ageing Society Project of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1982 ( Pifer and Bronte , 1986 ) , that we know surprisingly little about what happens to a society and its economy when its age structure changes significantly . |
| 22 | The capital has failed to achieved the real in earnings and dividends . |
| 23 | So far I have been lucky in that I have never had to work at getting the next job but there may be a point when I look up and there is no opportunity around the corner . ’ |
| 24 | By forming an exclusive club , the rich have ensured that their tax contributions do not have to go to supporting the poor in their neighbourhood . |
| 25 | But I would not have objected to having the extra music . |
| 26 | That is the undeniable conclusion that all observers will have come to following the overwhelming defeat of Wales . |
| 27 | Frank Gray flopped all too quickly when his predecessor might have succeeded in taking the same squad to safety . |
| 28 | The Mons road offered the shortest route to Brussels , and if Brussels fell the Emperor would have succeeded in driving the British back to the North Sea and the Prussians back across the Rhine . |
| 29 | Although this adaptation may have succeeded in improving the general light level , you can do more by adding to the illumination of individual areas , so take a look at what other light sources are available . |
| 30 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |