Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 2 | Japan has taught much to the Western business world . |
| 3 | The School has responded positively to the technological demands of the new Standard Grade courses and has installed in the Department ten ‘ Applemac ’ computers adding to the not inconsiderable quantity of equipment already there . |
| 4 | Each step command is issued only when the motor has responded satisfactorily to the previous command and so there is no possibility of the motor losing synchronism . |
| 5 | Move over Wilf NOT a lot of people might know this , but a Newcastle United player has come closer to an Olympic medal than poor old wobbling Wilf O'Reilly . |
| 6 | ( He has come closest to an antipathetic character as the ex-con in Straight Time , and as a crook in Family Business , two of his biggest commercial failures . ) |
| 7 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 8 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 9 | The Labour Party has moved on to the social democratic ground , it may even choose to call itself a social democratic party — in any case , it should complete the process with a constitution to suit . |
| 10 | These schemes are notorious for corruption , but something has got through to the poor . |
| 11 | THE Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition has got off to a tremendous start with 54 wins coming from the first 72 fixtures . |
| 12 | PETER Scudamore 's neighbour Nigel Twiston-Davies has got off to a tremendous start this season with 24 wins in the bag already . |
| 13 | The second half has got off to a good start , with slightly higher orders for October . |
| 14 | TV Quick , the German interloper in the British TV listings market , has got off to a flying start . |
| 15 | Oxford University 's Matthew Syed has got off to a flying start in the Olympic Qualifying tournament in Italy , winning both his opening matches . |
| 16 | The Grand National meeting at Aintree has got off to a tragic start with two horses dying in the first race . |
| 17 | NEW LIFE : A new branch of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child has got off to an encouraging start at St Winefride 's parish in Neston , where Jim Hallis is the chairman , Margaret Unsworth is the secretary and Debbi Trotman is the treasurer . |
| 18 | He criticises their lack of any real depth of Gaelic culture , and with the exception of Machair , which has got off to an excellent start , all the other programmes seem to be shallow or merely ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ . |
| 19 | Your marriage has got off to an unfortunate start but it does n't warrant the last rites just yet . |
| 20 | ‘ FROM OUT of the blue , 21-year-old Elvis Presley has rocketed on to the popular music scene with all the scorching fury of a meteor , ’ reckon the NME on May 11 , 1956 . |
| 21 | My predecessors and I have enjoyed a close and fruitful working relationship with local authorities in Wales over many years and I believe that that has contributed significantly to the efficient and effective conduct of business between central and local government which is the key to the debate . |
| 22 | Of all the poets published in Ian Hamilton 's New Review in the Seventies , Falck has stayed closest to the original impulse . |
| 23 | Abbey National has woken up to the extra expense that a remortgage brings and is offering £200 towards legal fees on completion . |
| 24 | In posing the idea of such an ‘ iron law ’ Bukharin unwittingly predicted the actual course of events in the Soviet Union that has persisted up to the present time , that is , the continual shortfall of consumer goods production as compared to the growing population and the growth in monetary incomes . |
| 25 | The murder has brought home to the genteel Spa town , the reality of violent crime in Britain today . |
| 26 | But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’ |
| 27 | In a nearby lake , a related creature has reverted permanently to the aquatic life of its ancestors . |
| 28 | The dominance of the study of cemeteries up until the end of the nineteenth century was unavoidable , but this source of distortion on our understanding of the period has remained almost to the present day . |
| 29 | The International Institute for Educational Planning held an important and , I understand , effective regional seminar on education evaluation in Dar es Salaam in 1975 which has led on to a certain degree of follow-up in a number of countries . |
| 30 | All this enquiry has led not to the definitive ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ , but to a quite fundamental reappraisal of pedagogic principles in general . |