Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A coalition of national and regional bodies servicing networks of community and voluntary sector groups has been formed to respond to the phasing out of the Urban Programme . |
| 2 | The first type of state is the case where monotonous driving on featureless roads , particularly motorways/highways , has been claimed to lead to the driver falling into a trance-like state in which they may fail to adequately respond to changes in the road environment . |
| 3 | The Chinese hominoid has been claimed to belong to the pongine clade , but the characters are of doubtful significance , for example the enlarged maxillary sinus , which may be an ancestral hominid character , or the size discrepancy between central and lateral incisors , which , although correct , is linked with an extremely low crowned and heavily buttressed morphology . |
| 4 | The logic of this has been held to extend to the situation where the person interposes by advising his friend of his legal rights ; the courts have held that this too amounts to obstruction . |
| 5 | To this end it has been agreed to annex to the Treaty a protocol concerning social policy which will commit the institutions of the Community to take and implement the necessary decisions while adapting the decision-making procedures for application by 11 member states . |
| 6 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 7 | It has been designed to respond to the rapid growth of banking and financial services both within the regions and at national and international level , and the increasing demand from banks , insurance companies , building societies and other financial institutions for relevant graduates . |
| 8 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 9 | Many are run by design graduates from Newcastle Polytechnic , who in the past might have been forced to move to the south-east to find a career in design . |
| 10 | As farming methods changed , so the designs of farm buildings may have been changed to adapt to the new ideas . |
| 11 | Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set . |
| 12 | The Health and Safety Inspectorate was informed of the incident and representatives from the electricity board had been asked to go to the scene . |
| 13 | ‘ He was very friendly and nice ; he wanted to know if Anna had been asked to come to the lawyer 's about her grandfather 's will . ’ |
| 14 | The blackleg buses disappeared off the streets and other vehicles which had been beginning to return to the roads . |
| 15 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 16 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 17 | She had been forced to go to the Refuge . |
| 18 | A further 30,000 people had been forced to flee to the relative safety of the capital . |
| 19 | But the story could not be shut up with him , and before another week had passed they had been forced to commit to the Tower six more persons , four friars minor , Stephen Lene , parson , and the prior of the friars preachers of Winchelsea . |
| 20 | For example there were evident differences in lexical incidence between items which had been thought to belong to the same phonological set ; get and never in contemporary Belfast vernacular did not pattern in the same way as items such as wet and wedding , and so could not be considered as tokens of the variable ( Ε ) ( see further 6.7 ) . |
| 21 | Alice 's mother-in-law thought she was going to have an afternoon 's shopping , it was what she liked doing herself , and she believed , without any evidence for this , that Alice had been longing to get to the shops on her own . |
| 22 | The story was that there had once been houses on each side of the road but a century or so ago , those on the west had been demolished to add to the parkland . |
| 23 | I had been planning to go to the Nurburgring for testing the day after the race , but I was told to return to the factory and stop the new car I was building . |
| 24 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |
| 25 | Aircraft embracing decades of RAF endeavour had been expected to take to the skies — from Spitfires and Hurricanes to Tornados and Jaguars . |
| 26 | Announcing the changes , Ratsiraka also said that he favoured lifting restrictions on political parties , which hitherto had been required to belong to the FNDR . |
| 27 | I 've been meaning to write to The Post letter page about it for several years . |
| 28 | The trouble is , I 've been longing to go to the loo for the past hour , and I do n't know how long he 's going to be ! |
| 29 | Prior year comparative figures have been restated to conform to the current year 's presentation where appropriate . |
| 30 | Various techniques have been developed to respond to the problem of incomplete crime statistics , of which ‘ victim surveys ’ and ‘ self-report ’ studies are the most common . |