Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of being an experimental novelist himself , Charles Newman has recently levelled a fierce attack on postmodernism which he argues ‘ has come to rely upon its own linguistic awareness of itself rather than plot or character development , to provide its own momentum ’ ( Newman 1985 : 98 ) . |
| 2 | For many who adopt a liberal and free-enterprise approach the explanation of our present problems is the increasing role which government has come to play in our economic life . |
| 3 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 4 | That 's why I 'm so keen , I shall I tell you what my plan is , at the moment but as soon as the the uncourteous Bill has decided to move into his new house new flat , rather , I am going to take my ensuite back |
| 5 | Similarly , Richard , Olivier 's son by his third and last wife , Joan Plowright , has decided to talk about his unusual relationship with his father and his own involvement with the Men 's Movement , which uses dance , drumming and storytelling to try to compensate for absent fathers . |
| 6 | In Sweden , government prevention policy has been directed to heterosexuals , so that the gay movement has had to look for its own information . |
| 7 | Because in recent years hypnosis has tended to leave behind its mystical and Svengali-related image — and also because complementary medicine in general is far more widely accepted than it used to be — many people are less worried about the whole concept than before . |
| 8 | Commenting on Labour 's public expenditure plans , The Economist said : ’ It has tried to respond to its familiar dilemma — of wanting to be a high-spending party without being a high-taxing one — by splitting itself in two . |
| 9 | His energetic , funny and highly entertaining live shows have won wide acclaim and his once sleepy cocoon of fans has begun to form into something bigger and stronger . |
| 10 | The Post Office has chosen to arrive at its net cash flow from operating activities by using the direct method rather than the indirect method . |
| 11 | It is as well that she has chosen to stay with you this evening because there is no way I will leave you alone at the farm . ’ |
| 12 | They include the following : the extent to which the freedom of the press and other media is guaranteed and protected ; the pattern of media ownership allowed ; the structure of the country 's mass media ; the technology required to ensure rapid and effective generation , processing and dissemination of information at all levels of society and beyond the nation 's borders ; the extent to which the public has easy access to the media channels for meaningful , two-way communication ; and the degree to which the media , besides being a watchdog of public interest vis-a-vis the government , foster the nation 's political and cultural awareness and promote the values and aspirations which the nation has chosen to project as its identifying characteristic in the community of nations . |
| 13 | They include the following : the extent to which the freedom of the press and other media is guaranteed and protected ; the pattern of media ownership allowed ; the structure of the country 's mass media ; the technology required to ensure rapid and effective generation , processing and dissemination of information at all levels of society and beyond the nation 's borders ; the extent to which the public has easy access to the media channels for meaningful , two-way communication ; and the degree to which the media , besides being a watchdog of public interest vis-a-vis the government , foster the nation 's political and cultural awareness and promote the values and aspirations which the nation has chosen to project as its identifying characteristic in the community of nations . |
| 14 | She should have refused to go with him last night and insisted on staying in the car park . |
| 15 | Evolutionary pressures would have gone to work on whatever genetic variability there was in the ability to make the relevant cross-modal associations underlying linguistic competence . |
| 16 | He was unable to observe , however — as he would have liked to do in his ever-observant way — just what the expression on Jilly Jonathan 's pretty face might have been . |
| 17 | He would have liked to talk to her more about her husband , but he could n't really bring himself , not yet , to ask any more questions . |
| 18 | Clara would not have liked to wrestle with its huge ornate metallic bolt . |
| 19 | However , these readers were students of English , which means that they were used to reading texts for tutorials that they might not have chosen to read on their own . |
| 20 | Port Essington , the most remote , dangerous , and perhaps most promising , hunting ground left on his itinerary , and which Gould himself had intended to explore before his triumphant visit to Namoi , was designated to his capable assistant Gilbert , who was staying an extra year in Australia . |
| 21 | Discharged from the army , he had intended to return to his beloved Donegal , but he had reached no further than Dublin where he bought a tavern close to the city 's quays . |
| 22 | ‘ I had intended to speak to you this morning on the Holy Father 's encyclical ‘ Lamentabili ’ . |
| 23 | And if the stranger had come to ask for his two pounds back , my sister would gladly have given it to him . |
| 24 | Last year she had come to his school for the first time , and every eye had turned to gape at her long red hair and golden earrings as she swept into the assembly-hall wearing one of her special dresses . |
| 25 | All the reports I had done to do with my mental state have all said that I 'm not crazy , and yet I was diagnosed as a psychopath and bunged in Broadmoor . |
| 26 | He chewed coriander seeds to sweeten his breath and , feeling ready to face the world , had decided to put on his newest , cleanest kilt , with the leather sandals and the one headdress left from more prosperous days . |
| 27 | On the other , if you bluff against an opponent who has a really good hand you may end up very much worse off than if you had decided to throw in your bad hand before you had raised the bet too far . |
| 28 | You 've got to talk about something intellectual for a change ! |
| 29 | I am , I am indeed , yes , yes , I I 've got to deal with it some way , somehow . |
| 30 | The first thing you 've got to do with your subordinate , is to tell them what their job is . |