Example sentences of "and [noun sg] have [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speculation has been based mostly on anatomy , both adult and larval ; meanwhile ultrastructural studies , immunology and biochemistry have added to the debate , and sometimes the confusion . |
| 2 | For four and a half centuries the village and manor have belonged to the Earls of Pembroke . |
| 3 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has written to the Leader of the Opposition drawing attention to the many ways in which it was a gross distortion and to the fact that , for example , one in 10 personal computers sold in the world — let alone in this country — is now made in Scotland and that no less than 85 per cent . |
| 4 | In the twentieth century the battles have been over quite different issues and in the courts the hitherto ancillary matters of child custody and maintenance have come to the fore . |
| 5 | By the 1980s , however , massive decline of jobs and population had led to the concentration of national socio-economic problems in inner cities , and to a very varied set of government programmes to improve the situation ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 6 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 7 | The passengers and crew had transferred to the Stratocruiser and resumed their journey more than 3 hours behind schedule . |
| 8 | Therapy ? 's latest game is ‘ Whose Round Is It Anyway ? ’ in which contestants from the band and crew have to go to the bar and order a drink in the manner of a named personality . |
| 9 | … ’ bit once the sun and beer has gone to the head and we 're talking as we are after this weekend severe overcooking . |
| 10 | A five-hour visit by US President George Bush on June 11 , intended , according to US political analysts , to demonstrate to US voters in an election year that his decision to launch the December 1989 military invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] had been vindicated and that peace and democracy had returned to the country , badly backfired when thousands of demonstrators disrupted his public appearances . |
| 11 | The Right has prompted the Left to ponder that perhaps capitalism and democracy have come to the parting of ways ; perhaps there is more life in the democratic road to socialism than many have chosen to suppose ; and so perhaps there are things that need to be defended and advanced from within the British constitution itself . |
| 12 | Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable . |
| 13 | In particular , the investigators examine how industry and government have responded to the challenge presented by the emergence of biotechnology with its potential to generate new , powerful and profitable drugs which will supersede many currently in use . |
| 14 | Corporatism and post-Fordism have led to the control of industry , employment and markets from international centres which supervise the socio-economic development of continental trading communities . |
| 15 | However , systems change and the more integrated approach and understanding has led to the inception of new and original concepts and these will provide the basis for chapter 8 . |
| 16 | The contemporary ‘ macho ’ image which Press and public has given to the regiment since they became dramatically aware of it during the siege in 1980 of the Iranian Embassy in London , is a false representation of what it was during the Second World War . |
| 17 | Her mother and brother had departed to the kitchen from where Wexford could hear their muted whisperings and the funereally careful clink of cups . |