Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " 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 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 3 | But his presence has failed to frighten away the opposition and 11 runners have stood their ground at the five-day declaration stage . |
| 4 | Ironically , the Duchess of York has chosen to do precisely the opposite . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Could I also say one thing finally , and that is the fact that we 've tried to run together the alteration and the greenbelt local plan as concurrently er as possible , er it would appear that the timing erm is coming together reasonably satisfactorily erm in that we hope that the report from the greenbelt local plan enquiry , is not to er far distant , erm and we would expect , sir , that you will be reporting on the proceedings at this examination in public er in the not to distant future , well I think I did give an undertaking at the greenbelt local plan enquiry that the County Council , because the two are er interrelated to a degree , that I would expect the County Council would not wish to pursue either report er until er the other er is available , and that seems to the County Council to be entirely sensible , that the two reports , the structure plan alteration and the greenbelt local plan enquiry , erm should be looked at together . |
| 7 | In four days of meetings they had managed to decide only the names of the principal members of the embassy . |
| 8 | Writing about the future development of education following abolition of the Schools Council , which had had curriculum development and examination monitoring functions and which had managed to stem temporarily the growth of DES curricular involvement , Plaskow commented that without the achievement of consensus within a workable framework , there would be central direction , with ‘ prescription through authority ’ . |
| 9 | Quite simply , the earlier Regulations had failed to meet adequately the needs of liberal adult education in rural areas . |
| 10 | The Khmers Rouges refused to abide by the plan on the grounds that the UN had failed to verify adequately the withdrawal of all Vietnamese troops from Cambodia . |
| 11 | But in the century since we have come to understand better the structure of natural language , and have made some conceptual progress in the philosophy of language . |
| 12 | All but two of the closed institutions in Rhode Island have applied to join either the FDIC 's scheme or a parallel one run by the National Credit Union Administration . |
| 13 | Disney have applied to produce both the opening and closing ceremonies of the tournament . |
| 14 | So far , however , the crofters in the Western Isles have preferred to purchase only the house sites and pass on their rights to their families , although in other areas where the land is better there has been greater interest in purchasing whole crofts . |
| 15 | Forty-one Japanese and US companies operating in Thailand have agreed to reduce drastically the amount of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) they use . |
| 16 | Both the Holgate School and Solihull SFC have started to scan regularly the software pages as both libraries have a policy to provide information on and , where appropriate , software materials in the library . |
| 17 | For many years scholars have tried to establish either the A or B text of the play as more authoritative . |
| 18 | All academic paradigms , from the Chicago school onwards , that have tried to capture theoretically the essence of ‘ the city ’ have come to grief ( Saunders , 1981 ) and so the concepts that are used to describe and analyse the nature of contemporary urban life may be necessarily flawed . |
| 19 | It is an idea that has taken root recently in Scotland where local government and private enterprise , approaching it from different starting points , have begun to put both the idea and supporting environmental ideals to the test . |
| 20 | Experimental evidence has provided some support for attitudinal and perceptual disturbances ; however , the current methodologies have failed to define adequately the body-image construct or to prove that disturbances are unique to anorexia nervosa . |