Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time you may have reached the stage when your children are now independent , your mortgage is substantially paid off and you have stopped subscribing to a life assurance policy . |
| 2 | The concern about declining councillor calibre embodies a bitter lament that a variety of changes have conspired to result in a situation in which there is now a less close and direct relationship between economic power , social status , and the political control of local government than was once the case in the Victorian age when local government enjoyed the leadership of businessmen and local notables . |
| 3 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |
| 4 | Many churches in the West , however , have come to depend upon an organ or other instrument to lead , support , or even dominate , the use of voices . |
| 5 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 6 | Some markets , which once had a homogeneous character , have tended to splinter into a variety of consumer groups , each with different tastes and preferences ; for instance , see Box 16.1 . |
| 7 | However , on balance a majority of UK economists have appeared to favour the discretionary cost-benefit approach or have thought the rules approach too dogmatic ( see e.g. Sutherland 1970 , Howe 1972 , Utton 1975 , Fleming and Swann 1989 , and George 1989 ) , and have tended to argue for a continuance of the present investigatory policy with some considerable strengthening of procedures . |
| 8 | The rate of acquisition of these various classes of assets has varied from year to year but with the exception of overseas securities holdings , which have tended to rise as a proportion of the total since 1980 , there are no significant trends . |
| 9 | Yet during their tenure of office both have had to deal with a Russia now run by an apparently liberally minded head of government who has come to the conference table willing to reduce arms at a rate that the West sometimes finds embarrassing . |
| 10 | Recently , in Belfast the police have had to deal with a spate of so-called joy riders . |
| 11 | His Halloween programme Ghostwatch so scared my children that I have had to sleep on a camp bed in their room . |
| 12 | Taiwan and Korea have had to cope with a decline in competitiveness like the one Japan experienced as the yen soared against the dollar during the 1980s . |
| 13 | Leicester have had to cope with a lot of injuries in the early part of the season the most serious blow the loss of Steve Walsh . |
| 14 | I have had to live in a bail hostel . |
| 15 | I have found as somebody who has worked for about a quarter century , in the national liberation movement , in building women 's organisations , in building political parties and helping to build trade unions , that I have had to move from a position of seeing national liberation as solving the question . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ It 's incredible when you consider that my team of part-time lads have had to compete against a side that is full-time . |
| 17 | ‘ And that I have had to get through a lot of long silences with both of you . ’ |
| 18 | We have got to work towards a situation where burning is no longer the routine disposal method for getting rid of surplus straw . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ All good things have got to come to an end , ’ said Stephen . |
| 20 | ‘ She lost less weight on Saturday than she had at York and we have got to think of a crack at the Arc . |
| 21 | However , the early season fitness the walls have produced contributed to a couple of hard repeats and some rapid ascents at Malham . |
| 22 | But when these rules have become accepted as a matter of convention , then a crisp distinction has necessarily taken hold between arguments about and arguments within the rules . |
| 23 | Since the 1989 Budget , the above figures have become governed by a ceiling , currently based on £75,000 earnings a year . |
| 24 | On the other , the Conservatives have become committed to a free-market society , in which the market-place is seen as economically efficient and socially just . |
| 25 | The second of the views we have noted derives from a claim that the route to indubitable knowledge is not through empirical experience of the external world , but through logical , that is rational , principles which are beyond doubt . |
| 26 | TWO Darlington candidates have refused to appear on a television programme with Donald Clarke , of the British National Party . |
| 27 | There are success stories of companies which have used this unlisted market as the first step to the big-time , but too many have remained stuck with a quotation but no business in their shares . |
| 28 | Moreover , just as the connection between certain looks and shame is one which we learn solely by experience , ‘ without which … we should no more have taken blushing for a sign of shame than of gladness ’ , so is the connection between certain visual experiences , and distance and size . |
| 29 | They have learned to co-exist , they have learned to live without a colleague . |
| 30 | The use of the mouth to caress and suck the genitals of either sex is more likely to produce disgust in some people , and is treated by many who indulge in oral sex as a ‘ problem ’ , an activity they have learned to see as a deviation from normal sexual activity . |