Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no question here that PW acted completely above board , but it strikes me that the time has come to consider whether the profession 's rules and regulations on reporting to external authorities are not too restrictive . |
| 2 | But in practice this has come to mean that the C. and A. G. examines , certifies and reports on the annual summarized accounts of the National Health Service taken as a whole , i.e. as the appropriation account presents them . |
| 3 | A READER from Dromore has written to say that the cathedral in her home town installed a loop system after she ‘ got at ’ the minister and vestry about it . |
| 4 | France 's Environment Minister , Brice Lalonde , has threatened to resign unless the government agrees to implement his plan for a new waste tax . |
| 5 | Alf Gover has decided to retire and the Gover Cricket School in Wandsworth is to be demolished . |
| 6 | The conclusion is that something has got to give if the UPF is to generate growth , reduce unemployment and win the presidential elections in 1995 . |
| 7 | What evidence there is from the USA suggests that local authorities there are simply not prepared , either physically or mentally , to deal with the new service demands of the exurban inmigrants ( Green , 1983 ) although work in Canada , using a game-playing approach , has tended to suggest that the inmigrants have the same service demands as the existing inhabitants ( Joseph and Smit , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | The blast has led to concern that the bank might be forced to decamp to another set of temporary premises — its third resting place in the 18 months it has been in existence — although this now seems unlikely . |
| 9 | Sir Leon Brittan has tried to argue that the concept of sovereignty is fundamentally archaic and cranky , fit only for medieval speculation . |
| 10 | In its two years of existence , Charterail has tried to demonstrate that the railways could be used not only for bulk freight such as coal , aggregates and steel , but were also flexible enough to shift fast-selling consumer goods efficiently . |
| 11 | But the welfare has started to decline before the suffering occurs . |
| 12 | Moscow says Georgian forces have been attacking Russian bases in the volatile Black Sea province and has vowed to retaliate if the attacks continued . |
| 13 | It is only our more ambivalent age , engaged in the very last mopping-up of the great wet waste which challenged our ancestors , which has begun to question whether the price of progress has been too high . |
| 14 | In recent years evidence has begun to accumulate that the learning opportunities which project or topic work presents are rarely exploited to the full . |
| 15 | and finally tonight we 've news of the Gloucestershire village that has managed to succeed where the world of sport has failed miserably and that 's to re-run the 1993 Grand National … |
| 16 | We would all like to hear about a far larger programme than any he has managed to announce since the Government came to office ; otherwise , they stand convicted of hypocrisy and bad faith . |
| 17 | She stood on the steps of the court , and told the crowd gathered there that the parents had been told they would have to wait to hear whether the Place of Safety orders had been confirmed , or whether their children would be returning home . |
| 18 | For both judges and ordinary people will have come to see that the area that should be dominated by predictability is very large , and citizens will make their plans assuming that judges take that view and so will not often reverse settled legal practice . |
| 19 | Is there honestly a single person in the country , the Prime Minister included , who could have dared to predict that the Conservatives would end up with the largest number of votes ever recorded in a British election ? |
| 20 | Here , the failure to consult was material because if the community health council had been consulted when it should have been in May , 1992 , it might have helped to ensure that the commitment to transfer the unit to the new hospital remained until a satisfactory new home for the unit could be found . |
| 21 | If Mr. Collins had sought to base an argument on the omission from the rules which I have characterised as unfair , we should have had to consider whether the opportunity given to Winchester on 6 November 1990 to make representations to Lautro 's board rectified this defect . |
| 22 | To convince the reader of my findings in any subsequent report on the study I would have had to show that the points made by my informants did produce a coherent and logical pattern . |
| 23 | In that case the seller would have had to deliver and the buyer to pay for the lots remaining complete . |
| 24 | All this was indeed ‘ daring ’ stuff and few moviegoers in that 1914–16 period could have failed to appreciate that the messages were coming at them thick and fast as the motion-picture industry tried hard to prove that it was a mature social agency . |
| 25 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |
| 26 | One of the singers from the theatre had stood in the doorway declaring to the crowd who had gathered to watch that the Grenfell and Morgan boot and shoe emporium was providing the best leather goods in town . |
| 27 | I had expected to find that the control group was ‘ ordinary ’ , those who attended the workshop ‘ slightly pathetic or suggestible ’ and the Moonies themselves the ‘ most pathetic or suggestible ’ . |
| 28 | I 've come to suspect that the spring may have been sewage , having noticed that butterflies , however , beautiful , possess unsavoury habits . |
| 29 | He had come to realize that the technique of politics as currently practised was ineffectual and in the long view immeasurably harmful in twentieth-century conditions . |
| 30 | Not only were the hands and feet not in any of the places I had thought possible , but I had come to realise that the hypothesis was quite inadequate to explain missing eyeballs , these being hopelessly ill equipped for hopping , volts or no volts . |