Example sentences of "has [verb] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail .
2 The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends .
3 This phase will only be entered if no errors were detected during the prepass phase and the user has selected to continue at the end of the prepass phase .
4 As part of a reassessment of its priorities , SERC has had to look at the balance of its forward planning , in particular to ensure that the funding of grants can recover from necessary short-term stringencies .
5 But Strasbourg 's anti-nicotine brigade has won a consolation prize : the health and social-affairs commissioner , Mrs Vasso Papandreou , has promised to look at a ban in the future .
6 It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee .
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