Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |
2 | In a challenging analysis Hans Medick has pointed to the increasing output of gin as indicating greater working-class expenditure on leisure . |
3 | von Beyme ( 1980 ) has pointed to the potential influence of union size and pluralistic divisions upon the degree of union democracy . |
4 | Secondly , he has pointed to the expressive dimension of the reward system , in addition to its instrumental qualities . |
5 | Laura Levine has pointed to an interesting relationship in early modern England between fears of sodomy and fears of the theatre . |
6 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
7 | I am a member of the Select Committee on Health and , as you know , the House has referred to the Select Committee on Privileges the important issue of the leaked report . |
8 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
9 | In this , the second annual report on our environmental activities , a range of examples are given to demonstrate how ICI has responded to the environmental challenge opposite each of our objectives . |
10 | The ideology of the enterprise culture through society has penetrated to a considerable degree to the young who grew up under Thatcher — ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ . |
11 | AIR France has protested to the European Commission over alleged favouritism towards British Airways in recent takeover deals . |
12 | Hong Kong has objected to the proposed ban because its stockpile of 670 tonnes — the tusks of up to 75,000 elephants — is worth $134m , while at least 3,000 jobs in the colony depend on the ivory carving industry . |
13 | Firstly , it is a family archive covering the period since the thirteenth century ; secondly , the dukes of Norfolk have been Earls Marshal and Hereditary Marshals of England for many centuries ; and finally , as the family has adhered to the old religion , many documents have an important bearing on English ( Roman ) Catholic history . |
14 | A rough estimate of the amount of water that could have been entrained by this fireball is , where R is the radius of the fireball when its pressure has dropped to the ambient value ( several kilometres for a 10-Mton nuclear blast ) , and the density of atmospheric water vapour ( several times ) . |
15 | The turps in the jar has congealed to a semi-solid jelly around the brushes . |
16 | It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt . |
17 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
18 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |
19 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
20 | Variable analysis is the closest that social research has come to a generic method of social investigation . |
21 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |
22 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |
23 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
24 | ‘ On the question of whether the material which has been made available is sufficient to justify the initiation of a prosecution against Patrick Ryan he ( Mr Barnes ) has come to the clear conclusion that it is not sufficient for that purpose and that a prosecution would not be justified , ’ the statement said . |
25 | The author has come to an overall conclusion that , perhaps , clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people . |
26 | But Scotland has added to the disastrous image in the most masochistic ways . |
27 | No past rival of Western democracies , not even Hitler 's Germany , has presented to the outside world a more opaque image of policy-making than has the USSR , and in no sphere does this arouse greater confusion and concern than defence policy . |
28 | It can first be grown in an immersed flower-pot in a smaller tank , and then , once the plant has grown to a substantial height , it should be sunken in the main tank . |
29 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
30 | Posters have appeared around the city giving the wrong date , time , and place , and the central committee secretariat has written to every Communist Party organisation in the country criticising the Union of Democratic Forces . |