Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Government has embarked on the first ever strategy for health . |
| 2 | The EC guideline is 26 ppb. * Greater use of catalytic converters in the Netherlands has led to the first ever recorded drop in Nox concentrations . |
| 3 | The gradual perception of this has gone with the still more necessary shift by which people have at last gradually begun to realise that human welfare too converges very considerably with both these things . |
| 4 | As you may have heard in the seven o'clock news , three British hostages are now on their way home from Iraq , after being freed from jail in Baghdad . |
| 5 | In that case the County Council will have to look after the sick there , possibly with supervision of the staff by representatives of the Regional Hospital Board . ’ |
| 6 | In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade . |
| 7 | The years 1990 and 1991 had emerged as the warmest ever recorded , outstripping the 1980s , which had been the warmest decade to date . |
| 8 | But I had left on the five o'clock train . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We had to get into the stable very early in the morning to feed and braid up the horses . |
| 10 | In the long wake of a critical career that had begun in the 1930s avowedly in imitation of Richards and Empson and which ended with his death at the age of 83 , his final achievement of style was above all to create , for a time , a compelling image of himself . |
| 11 | ESA 's decision on ISO will probably toll the knell for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility , which many American astronomers have seen as the next most important project for the 1990s after AXAF . |
| 12 | Moreover , endoscopic and percutaneous cholangiography have become during the 1980s widely used methods to diagnose bile duct abnormality , including common duct stones . |
| 13 | We have concentrated on the three most important diagnostic signs : upward or downward straggle in individual batches ( figure 11.2 ) , wedge-shaped data where batches with higher medians have greater spread ( figure 11.3 ) , and curvy lines in a scatterplot ( figure 11.11 ) . |
| 14 | My general position would be that if this policy is to go ahead the more it 's worded in the positive rather than the negative the better . |