Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 'Ladies and gentlemen … this meeting , the largest indoor meeting ever held under one roof in Britain , is the culmination of a great national campaign in which audiences of every city in this land have gathered to hear the fascist case … |
| 2 | After taking independent legal and accounting advice , the Trafalgar directors refused to accept the Panel 's view on the two key issues — the transfer of assets and the treatment of ACT — but in the face of a threat of legal action , the Panel announced that ‘ the directors have undertaken to make the appropriate changes and adjustments in the 1992 accounts to meet the Panel 's concerns ’ . |
| 3 | Now that circumstances have conspired to make an immediate share issue an unattractive option , Dell Computer Corp is looking around for the best alternative to raise cash to finance its soaraway growth . |
| 4 | Since then tests have developed to cover a wide variety of abilities and people of all ages . |
| 5 | The name of the shops is a little misleading ; many of the plants are made from synthetic materials and scores of people have stooped to smell the waxy lilies only to find that they are plastic through and through . |
| 6 | Although some of the participants develop hardware — Hampshire-based Neural Technologies Ltd and Gloucester-based Micro Circuit Engineering Ltd have collaborated to develop a Neural Instruction Set Processor — the project clubs will mostly concentrate on software development . |
| 7 | Over the last few months SCOTVEC and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) have collaborated to produce a joint statement , the main feature of which is an agreement that SVQs and NVQs are compatible in their essential features and that there will be mutual recognition of these throughout the UK . |
| 8 | 4 Some reflex actions have to be learnt such as tying a shoe lace , chewing a pencil under stress and biting nails , but others come naturally from the moment we are born like digestion , breathing and jerking our big toe out of the bath water when we have forgotten to turn the cold tap on . |
| 9 | Last year , only two salmon climbed Idaho Lower Granite Dam compared with 4,500 in 1950. 100 sub-species have already disappeared from the two rivers and the Shoshone-Bannock native American tribe , the National Marine Fisheries Service and conservation groups have petitioned to have the remaining species listed . |
| 10 | For most point to point is a good day out … an afternoon of country sport … the competition is keen … the racing hard and winning isn ’ t the be all and end all … for some horses and riders though this game is the first hurdle … a fence they have to jump to make the big time |
| 11 | WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party . |
| 12 | ‘ My fellow Americans , on this day , with high hopes and brave hearts and massive numbers , the American people have voted to make a new beginning , ’ he told the crowd . |
| 13 | He told ecstatic supporters : ‘ The American people have voted to make a new beginning . |
| 14 | We have to try to imagine a complex future in which different groups of the elderly will have different experiences from those of the present and from one another . |
| 15 | D'ye see , little hands have to struggle to free the trapped weft before the frame drops ? |
| 16 | While British surfing in recent years has developed into Day-Glo sporting fantasy , into pipeline boasts in city pubs , and into Newquay , Newquay , Newquay — booming as the ‘ surf capital ’ of Britain — these boys have looked to carve a different route . |
| 17 | From that time , they have continued to have an important role in the discounting of bills and as a result of this function have come to fill a pivotal role between the banks and the Bank of England in the determination of short term interest rates . |
| 18 | Clearly these are important categories in that they have come to define the narrative expectations on which genres play , but it is important to recognize their limitations . |
| 19 | The concessions and trade-offs which have come to form the main content of Zambian politics have proved fatally debilitating , even though the skill with which they have been orchestrated by President Kenneth Kaunda ( KK ) has ensured that Zambia is one of the least oppressive societies in Africa . |
| 20 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 21 | In modern times we have come to associate the very word ‘ ecology ’ with a concern for the environment — yet ‘ ecology ’ is properly the name of the science that deals with the ways in which living things interact with one another and with their environment . |
| 22 | In trying to attain this goal , science and technology have come to assume an unprecedented significance as tools for development . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , governments have come to accept the extravagant version as a taboo , and , like many such myths , its influence over the years has been in inverse proportion to its constitutional validity . |
| 24 | So at this grave moment we have come to establish a supreme people 's council which can represent all the Korean People and include representatives from all the classes of the Korean people . |
| 25 | At the other extreme a number of specialist car producers have come to dominate the luxury end of the car market . |
| 26 | But now these incidental catches have come to present a major danger to cetacean populations . |
| 27 | You see , I have come to experience a great truth of life : love . |
| 28 | While this is good news for millions of borrowers and mortgage holders , it is not such a rosy picture for those people who have come to expect a healthy return from their savings accounts . |
| 29 | However , most Japanese businessmen acquainted with foreigners have come to expect a certain variety within reasonable limits in the dress of foreign businessmen . |
| 30 | We have come to expect the premeditated dishonesty of Conservative Central Office to be reprinted in the Daily Mail , but we do not intend to allow it to go unchallenged in the columns of Hansard . |