Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For the first time in its history , the Conference of European Churches ( CEC ) has decided to give priority to communication issues , placing particular emphasis on media ethics .
2 His departure from nearby Long Eaton thus severs a rugby link that has helped to bring Nottingham to eminence from relative obscurity over the past 14 years .
3 Ernst & Young has offered to pay compensation to Sound Diffusion investors who took up shares in a rights issue seven months before the electrical equipment company collapsed .
4 ‘ I imagine he has gone to say goodbye to Claudine , ’ she announced , although Jenna had not dared to ask where he was .
5 Genuinely considerate and sympathetic to others , she is rather disorganised in her day-to-day functioning but has learned to delegate attention to detail and accuracy while she focuses on broader , long-term objectives .
6 Yet it is plainly obvious to anyone who works in central London , or has tried to get admission to hospital there , that this is untrue .
7 But an additional limitation on the offence at point 7 is that the stationary vehicle must have stopped to accord precedence to pedestrians .
8 The recent ENO production of Königskinder may have helped to alert interest to Humperdinck as the composer or more than Hänsel und Gretel , and those who enjoyed the work will find the splendid overture and three other pieces here .
9 Discussing the case of a headmaster who had reported his pupils to the police for criminal behaviour , the Philosopher , who was female , expressed the opinion that , since the headmaster is in loco parentis , he should have tried to avoid resort to law ; he should have dealt with his pupils himself , privately and without publicity — as would , she suggested , a loving parent .
10 Yet although Motion may have started to do honour to Larkin 's achievement , what his book predominantly conveys is distaste for the man .
11 This alternative offence can also be proved as at point 5 with the additional observations to the effect ‘ The stationary vehicle had stopped to accord precedence to foot passengers ’ .
12 Nevertheless , rightfully or not , Zambia had come to mean trouble to Leila .
13 He said unionists had voted to send representatives to events in Hong Kong and France , but refused to spend a few hundred pounds on the bilingualism conference in Gweedore .
14 Press reports in June claimed that the United States had threatened to withdraw aid to Israel for immigration absorption if the settlements policy was not terminated .
15 Prince Karl Lichnowsky had offered to take Mozart to Berlin , where he would be introduced to King Friedrich Wilhelm II .
16 What Ritschl had said one can gather from his testimonials that had helped to bring Nietzsche to Basle : his pupil was " a phenomenon " who would simply be able to do anything he chose to do .
17 On Sept. 27 , Economics Minister Andrei Nechayev , in an interview with Interfax , said that the RCB had agreed to cut credit to industry to 500,000 million roubles for the remainder of the year .
18 Rumours that Ukraine had agreed to supply weapons to Iran went unconfirmed .
19 He suspected that perhaps McAllister , always so gallant in facing life , as he had now seen on several occasions , had tried to suppress , to crush down the awful memory of what had been done to her , had refused to give way to grief , to shed healing tears , until in his arms something had reminded her so strongly of what had passed and broken the barriers her will had erected .
20 Ukraine , Moldova , Byelarus , Georgia , Azerbaijan and Armenia had refused to supply conscripts to forces outside their territory ; the Central Asian states , and some republics and regions within Russia , had agreed to submit some conscripts to CIS strategic forces .
21 Before disembarking , the passengers had been reminded to put their watches forward by six hours to be in line with Continental time , which had served to add disorientation to fatigue .
22 I found it odd that Robert had chosen to distinguish me alone as English and wondered how he saw himself and Lili and I found it odd that Lili had chosen to lay claim to Englishness .
23 ( In the SCAN scheme of analysis — see reference 2 — which we have developed to provide feedback to curriculum designers on the use of their material , we call these 1 and 3 levels of teacher guidance respectively , the level of demand is similarly classified unc The classification has been found useful much more widely .
24 Local authorities have lost important development-control powers and have had to release land to UDCs at extremely low prices .
25 Well so that one 's got to go back to back to Cambridge then has n't it .
26 The peculiar geography involved has disturbed many , who have wanted to emend Thuringia to Tongres , an emendation already made by a scribe of one manuscript of Gregory 's Histories .
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