Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 2 | Deconstructionism has pointed to the inherent flaws in structuralism — that , for example , binary oppositions are not absolute , but are dependent on their social meaning — and has celebrated the idea of ‘ subjectivity ’ . |
| 3 | In a challenging analysis Hans Medick has pointed to the increasing output of gin as indicating greater working-class expenditure on leisure . |
| 4 | von Beyme ( 1980 ) has pointed to the potential influence of union size and pluralistic divisions upon the degree of union democracy . |
| 5 | Secondly , he has pointed to the expressive dimension of the reward system , in addition to its instrumental qualities . |
| 6 | Much recent management research has pointed to the multi-dimensional objectives of large divisionalised companies where ownership is separated from management . |
| 7 | ANOTHER OF WAINWRIGHT 'S walks , Robin Hood 's Bay to St Bees , a 200 mile walk from coast to coast across England , has fallen to the conquering boots of Kevin Treacher . |
| 8 | The hope that a new Church of the poor has given to the impoverished masses of this region is the most significant political development in the region in recent decades . |
| 9 | May I say how welcome is the strong support that Great Britain has given to the Baltic states ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The research will seek to show how the Council , originally set up in mid-nineteenth century when medical practice was greatly different from today , has responded to the changed circumstances . |
| 13 | AIR France has protested to the European Commission over alleged favouritism towards British Airways in recent takeover deals . |
| 14 | However , a number of United States courts have considered cases in which service has been effected by registered mail upon defendants in Japan , a state which has objected to the other modes of service listed in Article 10 but not to the use of the postal channel . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | But Scotland has added to the disastrous image in the most masochistic ways . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | The mother has written to the European Court of Human Rights in a bid to win back her child . |
| 25 | The department has written to the dental schools at Liverpool , Newcastle , Birmingham and Manchester and the London Hospital to canvass their support for becoming centres for the evaluation of new dental materials . |
| 26 | Coun Phil Hughes , chairman of the town 's Citizens Advice Bureau , has written to the general manager of Durham county ambulance service , Ken Threlfall , about the delay after the incident outside his office . |
| 27 | Gould has threatened to take legal action and has written to the Prime Minister claiming his civil liberties were infringed . |
| 28 | Shadow Scottish Secretary George Robertson has written to the Prime Minister saying that Scots would be outraged if Northern Ireland got elected an Assembly and Scotland did n't . |
| 29 | A seven year old schoolboy has written to the Prime Minister complaining about education cuts . |
| 30 | WACC 's Latin American/Caribbean Regional Association ( WACC-LA/C ) has written to the military regime in Haiti condemning the imposition of press censorship and the persecution of journalists since the overthrow of the country 's democratic government in September by military coup . |