Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writers in this tradition emphasize that there has been an historical change in the cultural and social meaning of the term ‘ family ’ over time , so that it has come to mean essentially the unit based on marriage and parenthood , with a secondary role only accorded to other kin relationships . |
| 2 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |
| 3 | Well I think it 's er down to the competitive tendering process where the County Council has had to put out the cleaning contracts for schools to tender . |
| 4 | The ministry said yesterday that it has had to hand over the file to the European Commission , which is investigating the Rover deal . |
| 5 | Link welcomes new Burstwick correspondent who has agreed to take up the post from previous correspondent . |
| 6 | By the same token , revisionist work has tended to play down the extent to which the intelligentsia set the goals and moulded the aspirations of peasants and workers . |
| 7 | The Dovercourt branch of the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders has volunteered to carry out the work free of charge and has even joined in raising funds . |
| 8 | The polish chief negotiator has demanded to know why the Community has such problems adjusting to the Višegrad states when it accounts for 56 per cent of their trade and they for 1 per cent of its trade . |
| 9 | The company has questioned the viability of taking coal from other seams at Woodbank Farm , but has refused to rule out the possibility of applying for further operations . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Mars has pledged to keep up the pressure on Walls , with no let-up in its campaign to woolovers of ice cream . |
| 11 | Second , although the government has tried to open up the supply side to competition , barriers to entry still exist both in terms of medical personnel and hospital construction . |
| 12 | The two roads that go by way of Anglet , a suburb which has accumulated to fill in the gap between the two towns , are no better than functional . |
| 13 | A claim against an expert may be that : ( 1 ) he has failed to carry out the reference properly ; or ( 2 ) he has failed to deliver a timely decision ; or ( 3 ) he has not followed the parties ' instructions : or ( 4 ) he has not kept to the standard of skill and care of his profession . |
| 14 | ( 1 ) Whether the expert has failed to carry out the reference |
| 15 | Two months of treatment has failed to clear up the trouble , so Molby has had surgery and is not expected to return to action for another six weeks . |
| 16 | But his presence has failed to frighten away the opposition and 11 runners have stood their ground at the five-day declaration stage . |
| 17 | Despite the effects of recession and significant overcapacity in the industry down south , the team has managed to build up the business considerably over the past two years . |
| 18 | Ironically , the Duchess of York has chosen to do precisely the opposite . |
| 19 | Er and then we 'd used to repeat right the way through the day , we had a bus say for sixteen hours and it erm repeated itself every hour and that was boring job just writing it down and repeating it . |
| 20 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 21 | It is a sad loss to this House that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should have decided to lay down the burden of representing the electors of Warley , West . |
| 22 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 23 | But it is probably good advice to plan this sort of book every bit as much as the writer of the puzzle detective story will have had to work out the plot and most of what is necessary to sustain that plot . |
| 24 | One would n't have wanted to split up the family . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He says he ca n't remember exactly but he thinks he may have tried to pull out the knife . |
| 26 | ‘ Hello Brian , ’ said Shirley , who was feeling marginally more cheerful , having managed to bring out the card-table in the midst of an argument about the relative demerits of the offerings on BBC and ITV . |
| 27 | Papa and Mama , informed , were coming over , the lawyers had gathered to draw up the marriage settlement , everything seemed set fair . |
| 28 | I thought the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtain , and I was just about to do it when I heard his voice . |
| 29 | In April 1945 , Truman 's government played host to representatives from 50 countries at San Francisco who had met to draw up the Charter for the United Nations . |
| 30 | Reports in early March had indicated that the IAEA had sought to play down the significance of a recent report submitted to the UN in which it was claimed that Iraq was offering " better co-operation " to IAEA inspectors . |