Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The establishment has successfully monopolised the major positions within the state and the social institutions allied to the state , and it has exercised a pervasive influence over those outside its own ranks . |
| 2 | And while he has successfully offended the doctrinaire Protestants , he does not seem to have pleased the Pope . |
| 3 | But what has most disturbed the professional archaeologists is the increasing decentralisation of decision-making in their field , reducing the CSRA to figurehead status . |
| 4 | Mr Mayor I think we , we owe a debt of gratitude to councillor this evening because the sort of motions he 's been putting forward has effectively united the progressive forces . |
| 5 | The extent to which such rights might justifiably embrace ideas unrelated to government or public affairs , ideas of no value at all , or cloaked in images of a sexual or violent nature , has long exercised the finest minds not only in American jurisprudence , but in Europe and the Commonwealth as well . |
| 6 | What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ . |
| 7 | The economic downturn has only intensified the self-rejuvenating qualities of élites and multiplied the ways in which others are shut out . |
| 8 | Parliament has thus recognised the unsatisfactory results of the common law privilege against self-incrimination and has been willing to abrogate or modify that privilege . |
| 9 | This law has not served the best interests of air safety even though it might have satisfied a curious public . |
| 10 | Even now , Grant has not heard the sorriest details about Charlotte 's chronicle of misery during this nightmare waiting period . |
| 11 | Whilst the situation has not reached the endemic proportions of mentally ill people who are homeless in America , the situation of these groups in Britain is serious enough to warrant consideration and a commitment to funding of decent support in the community . |
| 12 | Second the suspension of mandatory inflation accounting by the profession ( in 1985 ) has not affected the nationalized industries , who continue to report current cost accounts , by government direction . |
| 13 | So , while the Government has put some effort into educating people about healthy eating , it has not made the necessary changes in policy and practice that are required to make a healthier diet possible . |
| 14 | Mr Foster , who took up the issue on behalf of farmers and operators , said : ‘ I am deeply disappointed that the Intervention Board has not accepted the strong arguments put forward in favour of the facility . ’ |
| 15 | But this has not stopped the two companies , conscious of their high public profile , from starting to sell the deal to the viewers as well as the money men . |
| 16 | The junior adventure story has not suffered the same extremes of literary discrimination . |
| 17 | In spite of the considerable popularity of Tough 's framework , she has not subjected the specific strategies to a rigorous examination of reliability and , when other researchers have attempted to replicate her work , they have not always been able to demonstrate good agreement between different observers ( Wells 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 19 | Article 235 , on the other hand , provides that if action by the Community should prove necessary to attain , in the course of the operation of the Common Market , one of the objectives of the Community ( and this treaty has not provided the necessary powers ) , the Council shall , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the Parliament , take the appropriate measures . |
| 20 | But it has not solved the huge problems inherited from the past |
| 21 | The ideology of enterprise culture has finally permeated the remaining institutions of British cultural life . |
| 22 | This was true even before the current wave of feminism ( Virginia Woolf in 1929 and Simone de Beauvoir in 1949 both marvelled at the huge volume of material on the subject ) ; contemporary feminism has just made the political implications easier to see . |
| 23 | Bowled over by their demo , Weatherall offered his remixing services and has just put the finishing touches to their delicious debut LP ‘ Breakdown ’ . |
| 24 | This project has already demonstrated the positive benefits of working with both parish councils and the farming community . |
| 25 | Jacob has already sent the three droves for his brother on ahead . |
| 26 | Mr John Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , has warned that the Department of Transport has already built the big increases into future planning requirements . |
| 27 | Dr Kavanagh , Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , has already published The Complete Poems , first in America and then , in 1984 , in Ireland through the Goldsmith Press , whose proprietor is the Kildare poet Desmond Egan . |
| 28 | Sophisticated DNA testing , or genetic fingerprinting , has already linked the 2 rapes of a 14 year old girl and a 19 year old woman . |
| 29 | Sophisticated DNA testing , or genetic fingerprinting , has already linked the 2 rapes of a 14 year old girl and a 19 year old woman . |
| 30 | Paddy Ashdown has already committed the Liberal Democrats to vote with the Government . |