Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE heavily-polluted Czech town of Chomutov has threatened to call for a general strike unless the government cleans up the air , a town official said yesterday . |
| 2 | The most valuable resolve anyone who has decided to care for an elderly relative can make is to give her all the love and loyalty you can but without becoming a martyr in the process , for martyrdom in such circumstances often breeds repressed resentment , which eventually boils over into words and actions that are later bitterly regretted . |
| 3 | In recent years the DST has had to cope with a conflicting number of loyalties amongst those political refugees France has allowed to enter its country , especially from the Middle East . |
| 4 | It has had to cope with a double whammy of recession coupled with turbuence in the Lloyd 's insurance market which accounts for 50% of its business . |
| 5 | Mr William Farley , who acquired a slew of manufacturing companies with junk-bond financing arranged by Drexel , has had to resort to a bridging loan from banks to finance his acquisition of West Point-Pepperell , a textile giant . |
| 6 | Thus socialism , as the idea of a future form of society , has had to contend with a strong reassertion of individualism and private enterprise , and of civil and political rights against the possibility of autocratic rule ; and a transition to a socialist society now appears a far more complex and uncertain process . |
| 7 | ‘ Since fall 1980 each American academic exchange delegation to visit Peking has had to sit through a lengthy recounting of the research improprieties I am alleged to have committed , ’ Mosher said , in a statement last week . |
| 8 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 9 | Within the spirits category , Scotch Whisky has had to compete with a wider range of heavily marketed white spirits . |
| 10 | If the TV has got to fit into a limited space , it 's a good idea to choose a model that has a front-facing speaker , such as Ferguson or Hitachi . |
| 11 | ‘ Your daughter — ’ this was said like an accusation — ‘ has agreed to go into a psychiatric hospital for a while , where we can assess her properly . |
| 12 | The millionaire Boss has agreed to appear on a new TV programme called Takeover , which highlights an outlawed squatter group who have seized buildings in eight US cities for use by the homeless . |
| 13 | To coordinate the efforts of people working in different parts of the country with different languages has always been a problem , whilst the failure to do so has tended to result in an unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 14 | If it is said of a barrister that he has refused to appear for an unsavoury criminal , the ordinary reader may applaud , but his professional reputation is lowered amongst colleagues who understand the story to mean that he has betrayed his ethical duty to appear for all who seek his services . |
| 15 | Darlington 's MP , Conservative Michael Fallon , has pledged to fight for a fairer payment system . |
| 16 | Lady Dedlock , lacking the life of the affections , is not bored but frozen to death ; the Victorian angel of domestic happiness has gone to shelter beneath a humbler roof . |
| 17 | A person who has learned to jump to a red light may generalise that learning and jump when any coloured light is flashed . |
| 18 | The ie has ceased to exist as a legal entity , but the family unit has remained highly influential . |
| 19 | The Committee has continued to press for a sensible Charter for the Courts as an adjunct to the Citizen 's Charter and meetings have been held with officials in the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 20 | MOTORSPORT : Three-times Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet of Brazil has signed to race in a Buick-powered Lola in this year 's Indianapolis 500 race on May 24 . |
| 21 | Red faces at Hoesch , a German steel and engineering group , because its supervisory board has failed to agree on a new chief executive , and will now have to look outside . |
| 22 | If the procedure has failed to run to a successful completion , Computer Services will enter this fact in the COMMENTS section of the form . |
| 23 | If we take a dramatic example , erm that of China , here is a country which has managed to develop along a particular line . |
| 24 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 25 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 26 | There was no reason , except chance , why I should ever have travelled to live in a remote island on the other side of the world , for my future in England had been mapped out . |
| 27 | Pluvial and arid periods had always alternated but at some point the latter must have come to dominate in a prolonged drought . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's a politician , Nick , ’ she said at last , and in a voice she might have used to reason with a three-year-old , ‘ and politicians would sell their mothers , let alone their kids , to win an election . |
| 29 | However , he would not have been around to negotiate with the RAF and would have had to rely on a tenuous radio link with the LRDG main base . |
| 30 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |