Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to reconcile their view of education with the form of schooling they are now required to deliver , they have regretfully had to turn off the tap , and substitute instead a tape-loop of the sound of running water . |
| 2 | Her progress is delayed by the 400 parents and friends who have all decided to move to the edge of the parade ground to ensure they get good seats for the parade . |
| 3 | The Co-op always had refused to sell to Maxwell , but now they HAVE suddenly agreed to sell to the administrators of his estate who now own the whole site . |
| 4 | The 12-strong board of governors meets on Thursday , and although most have diplomatically refused to comment on the row , estimates are that in the absence of any further evidence against Mr Birt in the next few days , he will survive any vote on his future . |
| 5 | House prices have already begun to fall across the country with the most recent statistics showing the Midlands and the North joining London and the South-east . |
| 6 | Hundreds of protestors have already started to converge on the area around Horton General Hospital . |
| 7 | What was peculiar about my own circumstances I have already tried to describe in the hope of finding and revealing some useful clues . |
| 8 | Japan 's exporters have already had to go through a punishing belt-tightening , prompted by the yen 's steep rise against the dollar after 1985 . |
| 9 | The supporters have not failed to build on the promise shown last season ! |
| 10 | In all my travels , I have not managed to fall off the edge of the world . |
| 11 | I must admit however that there are texts I used frequently with girls which I have not chosen to read with a mixed class , feeling that they would not attract the attention of the boys . |
| 12 | We have thus tried to fit to the NMR data by imposing these ε values ( on one junction at a time ) while also constraining the sugar puckers to agree with the COSY data . |
| 13 | While foreigners on Wall Street have largely failed to break into the domestic-equity business , the gaijin houses on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) have won Japanese institutional business at the expense of the big four Japanese securities houses , mostly because the foreigners offer better research . |
| 14 | The one where you are forced to have a group photo of the three acts you have separately promised to put on the cover that week |
| 15 | As we have seen , the laws of war do not consist only of what states have formally agreed to accept in a treaty or convention . |
| 16 | I have always liked to work in a simple room , he wrote . |
| 17 | Although the instruction books that come with new machines recommend certain ways of setting such machines up , I have always liked to experiment across the range of possible settings . |
| 18 | ‘ The challengers have always had to go to the other side of the Atlantic now it 's their turn to come to England . |
| 19 | ‘ The challengers have always had to go to the other side of the Atlantic now it 's their turn to come to England . |
| 20 | Professionals and businesses that stand in fiduciary relationships with their customers have always had to cope with the problems that arise when they owe conflicting duties to different clients , or their own interests conflict with those of a client . |
| 21 | We have always refused to appear on the programme . ’ |
| 22 | Most of the benefits of such investment by urban based business or financial institutions have always tended to accrue to the more advantaged economic sectors . |
| 23 | ‘ I have always tried to live in an ivory tower , but a tide of shit is beating at its walls , threatening to undermine it . ’ |
| 24 | We need to understand the extent to which oppositional practices have , wittingly or unwittingly , shared the assumptions of the dominant state-led strategies that have also attempted to respond to the black presence in British education and society . |
| 25 | The city technology colleges , outside local authority control , have also failed to develop at the speed the government hoped for . |
| 26 | The courts have also refused to interfere with a policy direction not to enforce a particular law . |
| 27 | Our on-going employees have also had to participate in the task of keeping costs under control as we freeze salary levels and restructure staff benefits . |
| 28 | Lake said : ‘ I was performing well and I am really disappointed as I have also had to withdraw from the doubles . |
| 29 | In an indication that Britons would be paying more in indirect taxes in the medium term , but the the blow had been deferred until future years , the Chancellor said : ‘ These reviews will inevitably take time , so I have also had to look to the revenue side of the account . |
| 30 | I have also started to write about the lion hunt organized by Claudia for Waindell Leavitt . |