Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Once again this week you need to do the following in preparation for the " Grand Review " : review your weight loss record any reactions you experienced make a note of any foods you have discarded note the positive drinks or foods that you have discovered . |
| 4 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The paths they have built benefit the local communites as well as the users themselves . |
| 7 | Regrettably , most other television programmes , notably ‘ fly on the wall ’ documentaries from Yorkshire Television and Central have sought to expose the inadequate conditions in which many mentally handicapped people live , especially in long stay hospitals , rather than discuss the progressive steps being made in the care of the mentally handicapped in Britain today . |
| 8 | Governments and international agencies have sought to alleviate the worst effects of economic shocks . |
| 9 | Beyeler has in fact made a distinction , broadly historical , between painter-sculptors and those artists , mainly those of Minimalist and Conceptualist tendencies , who have sought to blur the two idioms in their installations and in performance and video art . |
| 10 | I , I appreciate that one of the concerns was the use of the word director , er , and maybe it would er , help us all out of the problem , after all , you have decided to merge the two departments , and therefore calling them er , Chief Officer , using the two department 's names seems to work against what your attempts have been , and therefore maybe Chief Public Protection Officer , rather than director . |
| 11 | In the post-war period , foreign affairs and economic issues have tended to dominate the Prime Ministers ' parliamentary attention . |
| 12 | That is because producers have tended to drop the lower-yielding varieties , he explains . |
| 13 | Since so many of their coastal farms have now disappeared beneath a raft of asphalt and concrete , we have tended to forget the minor variations in the landscape which so influenced the earlier farmers ; even in the ‘ rural ’ Weald modern urban man finds it hard to distinguish the overlay of later centuries from Saxon patterns . |
| 14 | Another problem that has beset the RMCs is that , instead of being financed from special , earmarked central or regional funds , they have had to derive the necessary resources from the parent institutions . |
| 15 | The greater the length of time that they have had to consider the full implications of what was proposed at Maastricht , the stronger have been their reservations . |
| 16 | Other occupations have adopted the professional rhetoric and even if they have done so in order to enhance their status and monopoly or guild power , they have had to accept the concomitant constraints on self-interested behaviour . |
| 17 | We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals . |
| 18 | Under a new facilities agreement , the lenders have agreed to maintain the existing loans and facilities to June 1993 subject to termination rights and to compliance with new covenants . |
| 19 | Further to the details given in the last Q.T. Notes , while four areas have agreed to supply the necessary helpers we would still be pleased to hear from anyone who could help . |
| 20 | The Chief Whip was prepared , when it became necessary , to make parliamentary time available on the delightful ground that ‘ We have got to occupy the parliamentary members somehow during the war . ’ |
| 21 | PUB regulars have helped fulfil the last wishes of a friend who died from cancer . |
| 22 | But cost controls have helped offset the worst effects of the downturn , says chairman Sir Roy Watts . |
| 23 | A number of studies have attempted to rank the relative mobilities of the major constituents released during weathering , and although the precise order varies depending on the environmental conditions the generally agreed sequence is |
| 24 | It is in this spirit that I have attempted to analyse the technical-legal issues surrounding the debate about the illegality of nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | Rather than use an arbitrary measure of commission costs ( since these can vary according to the exact size of the deal and the market makers spread ) we have attempted to capture the competitive effects associated with changes in transactions costs by using a measure of turnover on the UK Stock Exchange . |
| 26 | Since the Second World War and , more especially , from the 1960s onwards , there have been other changes , some of which have appeared to reverse the general tendencies summarized above . |
| 27 | Recent controlled studies have served to clarify the different aspects of the interaction between alcohol and gastric acid secretion . |
| 28 | Advances in molecular biology in recent years have served to emphasize the possible relationships between homoeopathy , immunology and genetics . |
| 29 | Christians involved in print media in the Philippines have united to form the Christian Publishers and Booksellers Association of the Philippines . |
| 30 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |