Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the past 12 months his play has come more and more to dominate phases of the game , especially against Wales and Ireland . |
| 2 | Last year was no disaster she placed sixth over 200 metres at the World Student Games and was a member of Britain 's silver medal winning 4 x 100 metres relay team but she will have to run faster than ever to earn selection for Barcelona . |
| 3 | Such evidence is given by phrases including ‘ I saw women with prams obstructed by the offending vehicle parking across a pavement ’ ; ‘ several motor cars had to negotiate carefully and slowly to pass the offending vehicle ’ etc . |
| 4 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 5 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 6 | Delicately Louisa had tried again and again to create the opportunity , but she had been allowed no room . |
| 7 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 8 | And then I had tried harder and harder to obtain opiates and would do my damnedest to get hold of morphine , opium , diamorph and anything , y'know … . |
| 9 | After visiting once with her mother , while still at school , Juliet had fallen in love with the hospital , and had vowed there and then to do her nursing training at Riverside . |
| 10 | ‘ Well he lives in that little cottage at the bottom of the steep pitch just past the green , ’ Joe continued with a grin , ‘ as he staggers down the hill his legs have to go faster and faster to stop him falling on his face . ’ |
| 11 | Wolves in fact have done more than most to provide evidence that the game is ridding itself of violence . |
| 12 | Even more importantly , there is every reason to believe , with Mary Midgley , that the basic assumption behind cultural relativism/behaviourism that human beings are totally plastic and devoid of innate structuration is false : ‘ Sensible psychologists have tended more and more to admit that people do have some genetically fixed tendencies ’ and she continues that ‘ What makes this admission hard , is the very strong impression still prevalent that we have to choose between considering these tendencies and considering outside conditions ’ ( 1979 : 20 ) . |
| 13 | Recently such speakers have tended more and more to disappear from sociolinguistic studies for a variety of reasons . |
| 14 | If the Government 's record of managing the public services has been indifferent , the Tories and the Tories alone have acted bravely and imaginatively to achieve better public services by the only credible means — managing resources through private sector standards and disciplines . |
| 15 | But we have to look carefully and dispassionately to find them . |
| 16 | As jobs become even more complicated we have to look harder and harder to find a suitable person to fill them . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ The players know how important our League programme is and it is a matter of whether they have recovered mentally and physically to go into the game at Leicester in the right frame of mind . |
| 18 | I have tried once or twice to get him to the big hills , or to the Dolomites , but he sees no reason to waste time that could be spent in Norway or Greenland . |
| 19 | More recently , these hidebound attitudes have changed , in that educated , intelligent Christians accept that there is little need for God to perform a miracle ( unless , moving in mysterious ways , He particularly wants to ) when He can create the same effect using natural processes ; while scientists have begun more and more to recognize that there may be more truth in the mystical writings of the Christian and other religions than they have previously been prepared to admit . |
| 20 | In truth , the number of individuals who have emigrated solely or mainly to save tax is small . |