Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that swordfish have succeeded in piercing the bottom planking of boats , but if any were ever sunk in this way is unknown . |
| 2 | This is where the real debate is and where the Government have succeeded in taking the high ground . |
| 3 | However , it would be simplistic to conclude that the two Mcs ( McLuhan and McDonald 's ) have succeeded in shaping the global village in the form of a fast food outlet or that the ‘ real ’ world is in the process of being reconstructed as a universal theme park along the lines of Disneyland . |
| 4 | I think that covers most of the items in the agreement , erm , with some identification of new work that needs to be done during the year , but recognizing that during the course of the year , we have succeeded in following the main points from the agreement that was , was put forward er , I think , it was December this time last year . |
| 5 | UK scientists led by Mr John Wallwork and Dr David White in Cambridge have succeeded in incorporating the human gene for DAF into pig DNA . |
| 6 | A series of five different Employment Acts since 1979 have succeeded in changing the whole way in which Trade Unions operate . |
| 7 | We have succeeded in isolating the homologous tRNA gene from Candida albicans by amplifying the genomic DNA by the polymerase chain reaction and sequenced . |
| 8 | Ann and Vernon have decorated and furnished Blacklands in a comfortable and homely style , and have succeeded in retaining the original ambience of the house . |
| 9 | Investigators have resorted to paralysing the smooth muscle with spasmolytics to obtain artefact free images of the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 10 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 11 | Lately , however , academics have taken to exposing the whole business as a farrago of fantasies and errors . |
| 12 | A significant factor in the dispute is the close interest which Ceausescu and several members of his family have taken in directing the Romanian case . |
| 13 | In addition , a number of distinguished judges have admitted to breaching the exclusionary rule and looking at Hansard in order to seek the intention of Parliament . |
| 14 | In essence , it tells you how much time you have left before reaching the no-decompression limit and also how to manage decompression stops if you inadvertently exceed that limit , or elect to enter decompression . |
| 15 | Fortunately I am not driven to this expedient that often , because I have many other stratagems that I have devised for attaining the same object . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the people in charge of Oxford Uni 's mail server have been playing around of late , and have changed from using the long form to the short form , and now , it seems , back again . |
| 17 | I have mentioned in passing the potential advantages for schools and colleges with the arrival of the Education Reform Act ( 1988 ) . |