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

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1 The satellite television company yesterday announced it has secured the exclusive rights to live coverage of England 's three Tests and six one-day internationals this winter .
2 Hegemony meant that one class has persuaded the other classes to accept its own moral , political and cultural values .
3 Fuji has introduced a range of new courses in the Fuji Professional School of Photography , and has adapted the traditional courses to challenge the way photographers look at portraiture .
4 Fuji has introduced a range of new courses in the Fuji Professional School of Photography , and has adapted the traditional courses to challenge the way photographers look at portraiture .
5 I urge him to study the remarks of Professor Glennerster , who knows rather more about this matter than he does and has laid the two-tier rumours to rest once and for all .
6 On the whole , it has suited the big powers to have mediocre or self-effacing diplomats .
7 The Board has appointed the following committees to deal with specific aspects of the Group 's affairs .
8 But times have moved on … concern over the environment has grown and pressure from the Greens has forced the other parties to take ecological issues seriously .
9 Local councillor Peter Shephard , who led the campaign , has welcomed the positive moves to solve the problem .
10 ‘ I have spoken with our Newcastle bakery where the production has investigated the above points to ensure plant settings are optimised , ’ said Dr Peter Wood , BB 's technical executive and an affable chap .
11 The dispute has left the bipartisan efforts to reduce the deficit in , at least temporary , tatters .
12 Erm and the inspector simply pointed there that the county er the council has quoted no approved policies to protect the countryside for its own sake .
13 In the liberal view , harsh material conditions may have predisposed the Russian masses to revolt , but the occasion and the direction of their intervention depended upon the actions of the leading figures on the political stage .
14 Many teachers will have noticed the increasing efforts to sell an area or particular school to the potential recruit .
15 Tristan 's arrival had prevented her and she would never have found the right words to accompany the gift in any case .
16 Apart from the bilingual element , most service providers will have an increasing number of clients with whom they do not share a language and culture and will have to develop the communicative skills to accommodate this .
17 The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows .
18 This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force .
19 The therapist pointed out that the changes that had taken place in her life were the result of her having discussed her problems with her family and having taken the necessary steps to solve them .
20 Sánchez , who was alleged to have been beaten by government supporters prior to his arrest , had been reported as having urged the Cuban authorities to recognize the two UN resolutions ; he was later charged with " distributing enemy propaganda " and with illegal possession of foreign currency .
21 The most significant was in the middle of a prison riot when Gary had joined the roof-top protestors to escape the violence of psychopaths who were systematically tearing the prison apart inside .
22 A local priest told Yakovlev that the Komsomols were the most eager and confirmed ‘ Communists ’ , but then he had met no real ones to judge them by .
23 The clashes spread to the republic 's parliament building yesterday afternoon , when suspected Serb gunmen opened fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators , who had braved the troubled streets to call for an end to the spiralling violence .
24 But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency .
25 Now again it 's very difficult to say because jogging will not be any good to you unless you 're in the right condition to do jogging and unless you 've got the right conditions to jog .
26 The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France .
27 The branch had previously disclosed that a BA fitter had used the wrong bolts to secure the windscreen panel , which fell off at 17,000 feet , 20 minutes after take-off .
28 ‘ Such worthy bodies as the World Health Organisation , ’ the article sneered or just condescended , depending how you read it , had inspired the European Commissioners to set nitrate limits , because of blue baby syndrome and a fear of stomach cancer .
29 When the United Kingdom had entered the EEC , it had asked the major parties to nominate representatives to the Parliament .
30 However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education .
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