Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 2 | Whilst learning to take the rough and the smooth of rugby fortunes with a philosophic air , Townsend has already reacted to criticism with refinements to his play that have been a factor in his selection for Australia : ‘ I tend to pay heed more to criticism than to praise . |
| 3 | Local autonomy has also led to variety in the way in which the education system is organised within each LEA . |
| 4 | Its best known relative is the chamois , a native of the European Alps which has also adapted to life at high altitudes on precipitous mountain cliffs . |
| 5 | The rare Himalayan tahr — a distant relative of the mountain goat — has also adapted to life in harsh mountainous conditions . |
| 6 | Since 1990 she has really began to surface with work which is not for the faint hearted . |
| 7 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 8 | Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes . |
| 9 | It needs time to recoup its investment in Pentium , and still has plenty left to milk in the 80486 . |
| 10 | I think that 's very important and I think it 's , there 's er actually , I have to say er I detect in 's letter because I am quite sure that a year ago she would have questioned the parish council 's existence , and indeed she 's being , erm , to my perception , highly critical of er the fact that the parish council has even dared to sort of taste the oxygen outside their own homes . |
| 11 | A preliminary version of ‘ La Danse ’ , a mural painting executed in 1933 by Henri Matisse for the home of Dr Barnes at Merion near Philadelphia ( see p.7 ) has recently come to light in the possessions of the youngest son , art dealer Pierre Matisse . |
| 12 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 13 | She 'd never resorted to violence in her life , but suddenly the thought of landing a punch square on that granite jaw was enormously appealing . |
| 14 | This will operate under the name of Focus Sales Group , and will distribute titles from publishers of black writing , men 's and women 's issues , psychology , personal development , recovery and new thought — publishers like Shambhala itself , Chiron , Parallax and Siga ( all three having recently transferred to Airlift from other distributors ) , Beacon , Hazelden , Writers & Readers , Parabola and Spring Publications , among others . |
| 15 | He had swiftly risen to prominence during student demonstrations in favour of a multiparty system in Tirana in December 1990 , and the DP had that month been the first opposition party to be formed [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 16 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 17 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 18 | The expected shortfall in social services funding for community care had already led to tightening of the criteria that social workers will use to decide who is eligible for care management , and patients with moderate needs for care might lose out altogether . |
| 19 | I 've just walked to school for fucking nuffink I have n't got a lesson |
| 20 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 21 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 22 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 23 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 24 | They passed lock-up stores , splendid Georgian terraces , and the stern front of St Mary 's Church with its massive columns which had always seemed to Boxer like the fingers of an upraised hand ordering him to halt , enter and say a prayer . |
| 25 | You s you you 've indicat er you you 've sort of g given an impression that er this er this the centre h depends if you want to get a lot out of it , you 've really got to sort of work at it quite hard to er bring it up to anything together . |
| 26 | In any case , she had now got to thinking of other things . |
| 27 | He had often drunk to excess in alcoholic ‘ binges ’ . |
| 28 | Yes , this was the closest that Lexandro had yet come to communion with elder Brethren . |
| 29 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 30 | Inadequate knowledge of basic factors resulting in excessive or untimely tillage , improper implements , poor use of the right equipment , burning of crop residues , and excessive livestock grazing have all contributed to erosion on cultivated land … |