Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criticism the Oregon experiment has received highlights the general difficulties of moving towards this kind of explicit rationing system . |
| 2 | Since then a strong movement has developed using the oral history/life story method to document the tragic experiences of the ordinary population over the last seventy years . |
| 3 | Rolle has to try to meet the linguistic challenge which faces any mystical writer : to define and point towards the nature of an experience which is in essence ineffable . |
| 4 | During the same period , it has voted to change the Russian constitution — itself new — on roughly 50 occasions . |
| 5 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 6 | The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees . |
| 7 | Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ . |
| 8 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 9 | In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's . |
| 10 | Gradually over the years the term has come to mean the minimum number of members who must be present if the meeting is to transact business . |
| 11 | Its own root is ‘ thought ’ , and from that it has come to mean the inner debate of a person who is reasoning with himself . |
| 12 | The life-is-a-party world of Xuxa has come to portray the official version of Brazilian reality , with its glossy blondes and creamy morenas — and very few blacks . |
| 13 | Thus , ‘ Congress has come to dominate the national politics of federalism , and its members have gained that dominance by crawling inside the details of federal grant programmes and examining the effects of the distribution of federal money ’ , instead of the states deciding it themselves . |
| 14 | It has come to expect the steady increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue , but it also distrusts science because it does n't understand it . |
| 15 | Over this period an influential school of thought called monetarism has developed around his ideas and has come to challenge the Keynesian orthodoxy as the dominant academic influence over monetary policy . |
| 16 | Now the Government has moved to tackle the growing problem with four hard-hitting TV advertisements , as part of a £1.4m crackdown on sniffers . |
| 17 | While Boris Yeltsin has struggled to control the Russian parliament for a year , Kalmykia 's 30-year-old president , Kirsan Ilyumzhinov , has solved a local version of the same problem in a day . |
| 18 | The European Community 's environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , has threatened to take the British government to court for failing to comply with the EC 's drinking water directive , which sets limits on levels of toxic and microbiological pollution . |
| 19 | Norway has threatened to leave the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) unless it is allowed to hunt minke whales in the north-east Atlantic and the six-year ban on commercial whaling is lifted . |
| 20 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital Gatt agreement , aimed at averting a damaging international trade war , if its demands for a better agriculture deal are not met . |
| 21 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital agreement if its agriculture demands are not met . |
| 22 | He said If this person who ever he is has decided to join the Tory party then it is a matter for him and a matter of small regret but not one which will cause us to lie awake worrying about . |
| 23 | Judy Robinson has decided to leave the Grey Horse , on Bank Top , as her rent will double from £13,000 to £25,000 a year under a new 20-year lease . |
| 24 | After a 43 year period of ownership , Terrt Brain has decided to sell the venerable aircraft . |
| 25 | Thabo Mbeki , the ANC foreign affairs spokesman , said in London yesterday : ‘ FW de Klerk has decided to shift the defensive line on which PW Botha stood . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State has made regulations specifying teachers ' contractual obligations ; a comprehensive list of duties ; he has decided to scrap the long-established machinery in which teachers ' pay and conditions were negotiated and has assumed temporary powers to determine these himself ; and he has introduced a national curriculum . |
| 27 | Burton Group ( retailing , clothing and home furnishing ) has decided to include the gross funding costs of holding the development property portfolio as part of the interest charges in the p&l account with effect from 1 March 1992 . |
| 28 | Rightly or wrongly , the Pavillon des Arts has decided to emphasise the festive spirit of the time . |
| 29 | COYHAIQUE , Chile ( AFP ) — President Pinochet said he has decided to abolish the secret police which he established 16 years ago , shortly after coming to power . |
| 30 | Having dangled its local area internetworking outfit in the shop window for almost two years now , Sun Microsystems Inc has decided to fold the wholly-owned Sitka Corp back into its SunSelect PC-NFS networking arm , effective on December 28th . |