Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the expertise it has developed serves a much wider geographical area than the West Midlands , where it is based . |
| 2 | This works fairly well , but many people will consider that the time has come to consider a more rigid mounting . |
| 3 | In the world of manuscripts , ‘ miniature ’ has come to have a rather puzzling significance . |
| 4 | ‘ Biogeography is a field of study which has come to assume a slightly different meaning for different disciplines . |
| 5 | The growth of mail-order suppliers ( particularly for central heating ) and of do-it-yourself ‘ superstores ’ has made buying a less daunting task — no longer need the amateur feel embarrassed about not knowing exactly what he or she is looking for . |
| 6 | And to make a successful television career , Sue Lawley has had to tread a very careful path of being acceptable ( mainly to men ) as both a woman and a ‘ professional ’ . |
| 7 | This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units . |
| 8 | Energy conservation policy as pursued in the UK ( eg pricing policy , loft insulation grants and various publicity campaigns ) has tended to embody a relatively passive philosophy , relying on the consumer to respond appropriately . |
| 9 | In fact , the 1959 Act has worked to secure a very large measure of freedom in Britain for the written word . |
| 10 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 11 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 12 | With free trade and payments in the early fifties , the United States would have tended to secure a far greater share of world trade . |
| 13 | If he had been asked what Roland Michell was , he would have had to give a very different answer . |
| 14 | I would have liked to see a slightly higher register developed , moving more towards a normative academic usage and away from the predominantly plain-language lexis which characterises the work . |
| 15 | In a further six cases ( one in Newham , five in Ipswich ) the development officer said she would have liked to provide a little extra help but a support worker was rejected by the client or his informal carer ; and since they did not require the kind of direct help which the development officer could provide , she merely visited occasionally to check whether or not the situation was breaking down . |
| 16 | I had intended to adopt a more conciliatory approach , but his whole manner made me angry . |
| 17 | The road system built up since the Romans had come to serve a much heavier traffic load in the later Middle Ages as the county became wealthier . |
| 18 | Given the party 's increasingly isolated situation , given its general lack of prestigious cultural figures , it is not surprising that by 1928 Barbusse had come to enjoy a particularly favoured position within the ranks of the PCF itself . |
| 19 | For one of the founders of the sociology of religion , Emile Durkheim , history showed beyond doubt that religion had come to embrace a progressively smaller sector of social life . |
| 20 | He appointed a single , secret committee , whereas Lanskoi had sought to involve a relatively wide range of people in the emancipation process and had made no reference to secrecy . |
| 21 | But she could n't help wishing he had offered to take a more active role in the affair . |
| 22 | So if you 're marking the sound you 've got to give a little more air to it more wind . |
| 23 | We 've got to get a much better system of subsidising housing for everybody , so that those in real need get a bigger share of the cake than the people who are living in very big houses , with very big incomes , and getting tax relief at the higher rate . |
| 24 | I 've got to assimilate a much broader kind of spectrum outside the interests of climbers in national parks . |
| 25 | We 've got to make a quite simple decision . |
| 26 | You 've got to have a sharp brain to work out the tactics and you 've got to have a very good technique , so it 's a demanding sport . |
| 27 | I think you need a lot of knowledge , especially nowadays when they 're insisting on all this national curriculum , you 've got to have a very broad ability . |
| 28 | And really and truly you 've got to have a very big piece of ground to need one of those have n't you ? |
| 29 | There have been one or two stories about youngsters who 've become reached a very high level in mathematics , for example . |
| 30 | There have been one or two stories about youngsters who 've become reached a very high level in mathematics , for example . |