Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the studio came to make The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) , about a village 's attempt to preserve their branch line against nasty entrepreneurs who have set up a bus service , gentle anarchy has given way to nostalgia for Olde England . |
| 2 | This has given rise to speculation about the origins of such territorial units and the rationale behind the siting of cemeteries . |
| 3 | The consistent failure to implement findings has given rise to cynicism regarding research . |
| 4 | A farmer who 's threatened to shoot her cattle rather than allow a bypass through her land , has come face to face with officials who want to build the road . |
| 5 | This has added insult to injury of a privatisation carried out against the wishes of the public . |
| 6 | FoE condemns Britain 's environment record , but says PM has pushed issue to top of world agenda Downing St plays down meeting with Porritt Praise and blame for ‘ green ’ Thatcher . |
| 7 | DOWN the years Stan Flashman has brought dishonour to football in a variety of roles . |
| 8 | The continuing spell of dry weather in much of eastern Britain has caused recharge to groundwater in the winter of 1990/91 to be much less than normal , and groundwater levels are greatly depressed in consequence , particularly in the Chalk of East Anglia . |
| 9 | Leading bankers , in a meeting with the government on Oct. 11 , rejected an aid-tied " Legal Assistance Accord " with the US government , which would have allowed access to information on people suspected of involvement in drug-related activities , in an effort to control " money laundering " in Panama City 's " offshore " International Finance Centre . |
| 10 | Up in the dome , the uncoupling of the private car had given way to speculation about whether the northern lights would oblige : the weather was right , apparently . |
| 11 | Then , after that humiliation , he had added insult to injury by saying she 'd be perfectly safe with him ! |
| 12 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 13 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 14 | The poor fellow thought he had come face to face with an alien . |
| 15 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 16 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 17 | On his way home , he had come face to face with the two youths with whom he had argued earlier . |
| 18 | Aylwin had been leader of the Christian Democratic Party in 1973 , when it had joined in calling on the military to intervene , but he now acknowledged that all political forces which had preferred confrontation to dialogue at that time , were responsible for creating the conditions in which human rights violations eventually took place . |
| 19 | Lawrence 's ‘ emotional dislocation of a ‘ mothercomplex ’ , discussed by Murry , was picked up by Eliot in 1931 , shortly after he had resisted return to childhood at the end of Ash-Wednesday ; in the same year he analysed Coriolanus 's infantilism and his ‘ Mother mother ’ . |
| 20 | Ever since the Industrial Revolution created a mass urban society , the conditions of the poorest city dwellers have given rise to anxiety among the better off . |
| 21 | Since last May many of these same passers-by have come face to face on their TV screens with the agony , desolation and despair of the people of Ethiopia and the Sudan . |
| 22 | Morgan , MacDonald and Hilgard ( 1974 ) , for instance , have related hypnosis to mediation by the right hemisphere and Cohen , Rosen and Goldstein ( 1976 ) claimed to show that sexual orgasm in humans is associated with increased amplitude of the wave form over the right but not the left hemisphere . |
| 23 | These relationships have allowed Chorus to piggyback on the expertise of its partners netting Chorus an SVR4 base in the case of Unisys and now fault tolerance from Tandem . |
| 24 | Branded manufacturers have lost share to own-label in a market which is estimated to worth £100m , including sweet pickles , relish and chutney . |
| 25 | It means they have improved access to information on what holidays sell best and what the customer wants . |