Example sentences of "have [verb] [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 What Jerison has done is to reconstruct the probable EQs of extinct animals that now exist only as fossils .
2 In order to perform a pre-programmed masterpiece , all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array .
3 Well if she lives down Dawson , all she has to do is get a one O six to Clapton , right ?
4 All the slimmer has to do is to add a daily allocation of skimmed milk and a slice of wholemeal bread .
5 One of the problems Steve has encountered is finding the exact locations of where some of the equipment was installed .
6 The only thing she 'd done is make a small scratch with a rose thorn and was unfortunate enough to get a piece of contaminated soil
7 He says ; The decision I have had to make is to ensure the best for the company and its employees .
8 Another thing you will have to do is have a BIG AFFAIR .
9 And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe .
10 What Chaplin the showman had done was to create a great screen clown , a clown whose frame of reference was to be emotion rather than politics .
11 We thought all we had to do was bring the right things from the Store , but we brought a lot of wrong things too .
12 All they had to do was hit a tiny fraction of the total available and they were in business .
13 , my new work colleague , took us to our new home where he and his wife had organised the house and furniture for us — all we had to do was unpack the 20 crates of personal belongings !
14 All she had to do was get a good night 's sleep .
15 In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday .
16 Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had ordered most of the stuff from a local catering firm and all we had to do was add the finishing touches to make it look Roman .
17 Now all he had to do was to convince the mysterious eight twelves to negotiate a settlement .
18 Hope perceived this as acutely as anyone else ; he had experienced being called a black bastard , being physically abused , being spat at , being excluded .
19 A union would have to issue written warnings to all those members it had learned were threatening an unofficial stoppage telling them that they risked dismissal without compensation if the strike continued .
20 Chemists had attempted to synthesize quinine for the previous hundred years ( see Chapter 2 ) but all they had achieved was to discover the extreme complexity of the problem .
21 The seeds you 've planted are sprouting the tenderest of young green shoots .
22 The ‘ only means of modifying what they have done is to perform the same action when next invited to do so ’ .
23 So what Silver have done is to make the electronic box a self-contained unit , or ‘ module ’ , hence the description of the total range as ‘ modular ’ .
24 Here guests were greeted by the Chairman of the British Branch of the organisation Mr Tim Hart and Mrs Hart ; they are the proprietors of the superb Hambleton Hall on Rutland Water ; Mr and Mrs Martin Skan , owners of the Chewton Glen Hotel , in Hampshire ; and a director and the general manager of Claridge 's Mr Ronald Jones , who was delighted that Claridge 's had been elected a new member with the top award of a purple shield , denoting the splendour of a palace , with exceptional service .
25 It 's a doddle to set up and use — all you have to do is fit the various bits of the printer together and plug it in .
26 All you have to do is fit the highlighted words above into our grid .
27 For example , if you 've shot new seismic , all you have to do is overlay the new seismic grid on an existing mapped data set . ’
28 All you have to do is answer the following three easy questions and phone the Korg A4 Hotline on 0891 100733 with your answers .
29 To be in with a chance of winning free tickets to the BBC Good Food Cooking And Kitchen Show , all you have to do is answer the following question : What is the name of Michel Roux 's brother ?
30 All you have to do is answer the simple question on the voucher and cut out and keep it , together with your answers to the questions on vouchers 1 and 2 from the October and November issues .
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