Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | No one source that I have consulted gives the same total of S.A.S. troops as any other : numbers vary from fifteen to seventeen men ( including the officer ) . |
| 3 | We have compiled a register of the data we have received showing the purported performance of your local councils . |
| 4 | To compliment and complete the Scandinavian experience we ‘ ve been having this winter , The Whitworth Art Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum have collaborated to organise the first exhibition here of Norway 's most outstanding landscape painters , Johan christian Dahl ( 1788–1857 ) and Thomas Fearnley ( 1802–42 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The proposed new system is that whether on holiday or off sick the employee is paid for what theywould have earned had the attended work ( Subject to conditions of pay relating to full/half pay sickness entitlements and unauthorised absence ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The competitive nature with which most counties have come to contest the Second XI competition adds to the pressure . |
| 12 | At the other extreme a number of specialist car producers have come to dominate the luxury end of the car market . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now I 've finished researching this issue of NI , I have come to hate the very word ‘ population ’ . |
| 15 | Now I 've finished editing this issue of NI , I have come to hate the very word ‘ population ’ . |
| 16 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 17 | Before considering the various methods which various owners and developers have adopted to achieve the satisfactory conversion of church buildings to domestic use , it is important to be aware of the procedure through which the majority of churches become available for conversion . |
| 18 | That has continually happened when other hon. Members have sought to move the carry-over motion . |
| 19 | Chinese leaders are keen to strengthen what has become an increasingly important relationship with Tokyo , and have sought to use the five-day visit to invite Emperor Akihito later in the year . |
| 20 | Many prominent Keynesians have sought to replace the simple formulation and substitute in its place a set of equilibrium relationships between stocks ( e.g. the desired stock of financial assets ) and flows ( e.g. the flow of national income ) . |
| 21 | Having consulted widely on the subject , we have decided to extend the criminal law dealing with squatting . |
| 22 | ‘ I think you have decided to do the right thing , ’ said Holmes . |
| 23 | Twenty-four of France 's better-known writers have decided to mark the new year by launching a national petition against the reforms . |
| 24 | The brewers have decided to destroy the traditional tenancy system . |
| 25 | The children have grown to accept the sooty-faced character with the icicle depending from his nose and the drum of oil as some weird kind of minstrel , and it 's probably just as well . ’ |
| 26 | The effects of Basque nationalism have threatened to destabilise the Spanish state ; anti-nationalists living in the northern Spanish province of Navarra try to limit its spread by promoting regionalism — they campaign for the autonomy of Navarra while remaining faithful to their patria , Spain . |
| 27 | Middle-class voters have tended to support the Conservative party in Britain , and working-class voters the Labour party . |
| 28 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 29 | This may suggest that our ideas about wakes should undergo similar evolution , but recent experiments have tended to confirm the earlier picture . |
| 30 | Many historians have tended to stress the instrumental nature of sexual relationships and the conflicts inherent in working-class patterns of life , and no doubt much of this was often true ; but because we can not now identify with the exact meanings given to activities , this does not mean that strong feelings of warmth and mutual support did not exist . |