Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage ( 12–7kyr ago ) Lake Suguta covered an area of 2,000km 2 and reached depths of more than 300m , but it has since desiccated in response to an increasingly arid climate . |
| 2 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 3 | On Paul 's first day he arranged four appointments for our consultants with prospective clients , and has since gone from strength to strength . |
| 4 | Well I also was er , er , a producer then in the B B C and so he and I had some cheerful encounters at that time , since when he has obviously gone from strength to strength . |
| 5 | There are some observers — myself included — who feel that the July meeting at Down Royal has now gained in importance to such an extent that it deserves to be kept on its own and I understand that the Killarney executive are not totally against a move to an earlier date . |
| 6 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |
| 7 | As a result of this rule , and many carefully orchestrated publicity campaigns , the motor industry 's image has now changed from polluter to pal of the earth . |
| 8 | In higher education , for example , the idea of the autonomy of the University Grants Committee ( replaced in 1988 by the University Funding Council ) as a buffer between the universities and the Department of Education and Science has been shattered and the Department has regularly intervened with advice to universities and polytechnics about subject areas which should have greater or less resources . |
| 9 | In the USA it has recently slipped in rank to eighth position . |
| 10 | George 's wits began to return and he realised that he would have soon passed from sleep to death , if Elizabeth had not found him . |
| 11 | Particularly was this so because the British accountancy profession played a more constructive role in the preparatory stages of the two Directives than our professional bodies had hitherto taken in relation to EC proposals . |
| 12 | And Mogg believes that the difficulty of ordering tea in the Waldorf Hotel these days is symptomatic of the decline of an empire , a feeling I 'm sure we 've all experienced from time to time . |
| 13 | However , an EC threat to contribute only half of the amount deemed necessary for Bulgaria and Romania ( respectively $800 million and $1,000 million ) did not materialize , as EC Finance Ministers , meeting separately , had already decided on aid to these countries without the precondition of equal contributions from their G-24 partners . |
| 14 | The organizers of the exhibition wanted a Boston Tacker to stand in the foyer to tie in with the theme of the seventy fifth anniversary of the B U locating however , locating the complete model has proved something of a headache like the Model T Ford , the Boston Tacker was always very common but is now something of a rarity and the branch had finally settled for head to be borrowed from C and J Clarke , shoe machi , museum in Street , Somerset . |
| 15 | Detectives say Spiro , 46 , had calmly walked from bedroom to bedroom at his rented home near San Diego and killed his family ‘ execution-style ’ . |
| 16 | And , well we 're doing what we 've always done in relation to erm tenants and erm rent arrears , we basically pursue a sympathetic policy erm for tenants who are facing real financial hardship in paying their rents . |
| 17 | Environmentalists had also hoped for pressure to be put on the US over its failure to set limits for carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 18 | Although tumour weights were not significantly different , tumour DNA content had nearly doubled after exposure to both EGF and TGF α . |
| 19 | Experts said lava , which since December has been flowing out of the eastern Sicily volcano , had now increased in speed to a rate of 1.5 miles a day . |
| 20 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 21 | Small wonder that the company had earlier petitioned without success to be allowed to manufacture battery — plates , vessels etc. from the refined metal , for it appears that there was a ready sale and it was a more profitable manner of disposing of the metal . |
| 22 | Blue Leader , Lt. ‘ Jimmie ’ Gardner ( who had previously flown on attachment to the RAF and had claimed five victories whilst with Sqn.Ldr . |
| 23 | During her time at Brentwoods , although she had never actually gone to a cinema with another man , she had often entertained or been entertained by members of the opposite sex , usually at lunchtime , occasions which she had afterwards described in detail to Brian , much to his amusement . |
| 24 | We 've therefore looked at experience to date , the best figures available from other agencies , we have close contact with the independent sectors in terms of their expectations of , of numbers , erm , and we have our own staff in the field , who have given us their best estimates of demand for the coming year . |
| 25 | The collapse of tin prices in the 1980s destroyed the tin-mining industry , many of whose former employees have since turned in desperation to growing coca . |
| 26 | The space between the fly sheet and inner dome also plays a major part in eradicating condensation , a problem which we have all encountered from time to time . |
| 27 | I have already explored in relation to Gide and others the kind of rebellion whose test they retrospectively failed , namely , transgression as a quest for authenticity : underpinning and endorsing the philosophy of individualism , it suggests that in defying a repressive social order we can dis-cover ( and so be true to ) our real selves . |
| 28 | I have already cited in relation to ‘ The Hollow Men ’ Cornford 's idea of the degeneration of ritual into debased formats . |
| 29 | The notes will also give a practical interpretation of the regulations and codify best practice , as well as be more prescriptive to clarify what have already proved in practice to be grey areas . |
| 30 | Arousal , reward and punishment , as I have already suggested in relation to the interpretation of Ungar 's experiments , are associated with changes in the amounts of the opioids and other peptides in the brain and bloodstream ; so injecting the peptides , or drugs which interact with them , will alter behaviour , including the expression of memory . |