Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | We have compiled a register of the data we have received showing the purported performance of your local councils . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Last year , only two salmon climbed Idaho Lower Granite Dam compared with 4,500 in 1950. 100 sub-species have already disappeared from the two rivers and the Shoshone-Bannock native American tribe , the National Marine Fisheries Service and conservation groups have petitioned to have the remaining species listed . |
| 10 | FOR years we have claimed to have the best butchers in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The competitive nature with which most counties have come to contest the Second XI competition adds to the pressure . |
| 19 | At the other extreme a number of specialist car producers have come to dominate the luxury end of the car market . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now I 've finished researching this issue of NI , I have come to hate the very word ‘ population ’ . |
| 22 | Now I 've finished editing this issue of NI , I have come to hate the very word ‘ population ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The paths they have built benefit the local communites as well as the users themselves . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | That has continually happened when other hon. Members have sought to move the carry-over motion . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Governments and international agencies have sought to alleviate the worst effects of economic shocks . |