Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the number of environmental regulations escalating , companies have naturally turned to outside services for help and advice . |
| 2 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 3 | Refuting the argument that proportional representation would mean trimming to minority centrist positions , Robin Cooke , one of Labour 's leading advocates of reform , said : ‘ We have already gone to endless lengths to placate the centre ground . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I can only repeat what I have already said to other journalists , ’ he said and began to read . |
| 5 | Jim Allen 's provocative screenplay clearly echoes the ramifications of the Stalker affair and the film 's evident political sympathies and knowing references to dirty tricks campaigns against the Heath and Wilson governments in the 70s have already lead to outraged questions in the house . |
| 6 | Up to 12% of these tumours still confined to the bowel wall have already spread to regional lymph nodes . |
| 7 | They range from the basic spar endcaps we have already mentioned to dihedral joints , three and four way plug-in joiners , sail-clips and , for the carbon tubes , the arrow nocks and tube sleeves for joining . |
| 8 | There have been a number of other dukes , earls and barons who were deaf but who have not aspired to political life . |
| 9 | Although these conditions place a premium on the ‘ intangibles ’ of technical and market knowledge , they have not led to full verticality in the firms ' fixed assets . |
| 10 | The authorities have not responded to widespread allegations that he was beaten to death . |
| 11 | Similarly , bleeding from oesophageal varices that have not responded to repeated sessions of injection sclerotherapy is a further indication for surgical intervention . |
| 12 | Transfer the F1 adults that you have just bred to new tubes containing flour-yeast mixture . |
| 13 | In my 17 years as a clergyman , I have hardly talked to white people . ’ |
| 14 | At a human level it should not be difficult for those with some sympathetic imagination , to understand the reasons why both Members and Officers of the National Park Planning Committee have gradually acceded to determined pressure for further and further development . |
| 15 | Quality Assurance initiatives have also led to considerable advancements in both efficiency and quality . |
| 16 | I have also pointed to external critique , where we try to get students to form a view of the object of their studies , employing a perspective other than their home discipline . |
| 17 | I have also written to various television channels about their coverage of AIDS , saying either ‘ thank you ’ because it was good , or criticising them if it was bad . |
| 18 | As we will see in Chapter 12 , the courts have also gone to great lengths to make it difficult to bring tort actions against regulatory bodies . |
| 19 | The procedures for closure allow for periods of consultation and these have often led to bitter disputes within the community with the result that decisions regarding closure are delayed , or based on non-scientific data . |
| 20 | The issues on which the schism turned have often seemed to Western scholars so insignificant as to be almost laughable . |
| 21 | On advice Macmillan have today suggested to Soviet General on Tolbukhin 's HQ that Cossacks should be returned to Soviets at once . |
| 22 | Writers have frequently attributed to cross-national research the important advantage of throwing light on one 's own country and helping one to understand it better , undermining the ‘ in-bred prejudices or preconceived ideas ’ that attend a parochial approach ( e.g. Schregle 1981 : 28 ) . |
| 23 | The introduction of automated office systems could carry these processes still further , thus undermining many of the assumptions and procedures which we have conventionally applied to archival work ( Gavrel 1990 : Hedstrom 1991 ) . |
| 24 | Even the dunce might come away from school with a phrase or two — — and the learned have sometimes gone to extraordinary lengths to get him into and out of their systems . |
| 25 | In London the figure is only eighty eight point four percent but even the ninety five percent figure and the eighty eight four percent figures are artificially inflated because those elements include people who have died and not have not been removed from the register , people who have emigrated , people who have otherwise moved to other parts of the country and who it is unreasonable to expect will all be seeking to make use of postal or proxy vote facilities . |
| 26 | Universities attract this kind of attitude , as , to some extent , does the campus novel , a brand of fiction which is probably the closest English departments have previously come to industrial production . |
| 27 | I have informally intimated to British Gas that we 'll be taking it up with them , not as a mere procedural matter through the joint secretary 's machinery , but as a negotiating matter , with the negotiating committee . |
| 28 | Chinese tiger buyers have therefore turned to Indian suppliers . |
| 29 | Can you imagine that these people have never listened to canned music or swigged a ‘ Coke ’ , never twiddled with radio frequencies , never seen Dallas on TV , never answered the phone , and never played Space Invaders ? |