Example sentences of "have [vb pp] it [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not Fat Paul — Fat Paul , with his full-breasted bulk , his impassive sloped slab of a face , his parched pub rug , and the cruel blond eyebrows which give the eyes themselves the glint of a veteran ferret who has seen it all in the hare-traps and rat-pits . |
| 2 | The contracting system to which my hon. Friend referred has made it possible for the health authority to provide extra capacity for the specialty at Exeter hospital which will ensure that the waiting list can be worked off much more quickly than would otherwise be possible . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the fact that the further substantial increase in the NHS 's capital budget in the next financial year has made it possible for the health authority and the Ministry of Defence to come to an agreement on that issue . |
| 4 | The ferocity of the piranha fish has made it famous throughout the world . |
| 5 | The Lord Chancellor has made it clear on the front of that document that they have been issued before being finalised so as to facilitate discussion . |
| 6 | WEDGWOOD has made it big on the small screen with greatly increased television coverage . |
| 7 | The closeness of consumer and producer has made it easier for the Registry to expect and to receive from the Computer Centre a computing service of commercial standards , especially in terms of quality and meeting deadlines . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's only recently that I 've felt able to write about him , but the controversy about Down 's Syndrome babies has brought it all to the surface . |
| 9 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 10 | But no , I suppose he would have considered it disloyal to the old man . |
| 11 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 12 | This would indeed have made it one of the greatest empires in Europe . |
| 13 | This should have made it irrelevant to the case before him . |
| 14 | We should have made it clear to the Media Action team not to refer callers to named staff . |
| 15 | This imbalance , in the number of sessions held by the Council compared to the Assembly , must have made it easier for the Council to usurp executive powers . |
| 16 | Rat , Badger and Mole would not have been seen dead with The Economist : Mr Toad might have flaunted it unread on the hall table . |
| 17 | We 'll have eaten it all by the time you get in here . |
| 18 | And I was not in the position to show the sternness which would have nipped it all in the bud . |
| 19 | It was run by two balding , bespectacled men in their late thirties , neither of whom was called Largo , whose extensive knowledge of antiques had made it one of the most popular and profitable shops of its kind in the whole canton . |
| 20 | In Alexandria armies of monks sacked the Serapeum , the great temple to Osiris , and destroyed the library which had made it one of the world 's chief centres of learning . |
| 21 | The same storm which had swept Hawke 's blockading cruisers away from Ushant and enabled Conflans to get out of Brest had made it possible for the privateer captain , François Thurot [ or Thourot ] to take his little five-ship fleet , carrying some 1270 soldiers and 700 seamen , out of Dunkirk . |
| 22 | In a nationally televised speech , Bush said that developments in the Soviet Union had made it possible for the United States unilaterally to " take steps to make the world a less dangerous place than ever before in the nuclear age " . |
| 23 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 24 | Whose age had made it sacred to the view , |
| 25 | So the debonair Simon had made it big in the financial world . |
| 26 | Mr Hyslop said he had made it clear during the 1987 campaign that any political party was free to advertise . |
| 27 | However , Ada had made it clear at the first round of talks that the commission had no power to negotiate changes , which had to be approved by referendum . |
| 28 | The accountants had made it clear to the Committee that they did not accept the findings of the DTI reports ( which formed the basis for the inquiry ) , and that documents they would need to deal further with the matter were no longer available . |
| 29 | He added that he had made it clear to the IoT that the Faculty would be willing to explore co-operation over exams , but the IoT was not interested . |
| 30 | She had made it clear to the woman that she had strong Nazi sympathies , and often attempted to talk about the war in the desert , but to no avail . |