Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ‘ mentioned-in-the-text ’ is taken as the basis for selection of discourse subjects , it should be noted that the analyst is , in fact , attempting to reconstitute the presupposition pool which the participants must have had prior to the discourse fragment being analysed . |
| 2 | ‘ It was over before we knew it , ’ said Taliesin later , ‘ and even if it had not been , I do not think we could have got near to the Lad . ’ |
| 3 | It may have become apparent to the counsellor that counsellees are ‘ locked ’ into feelings which are affecting the way they are leading their lives , but are apparently more content to hold on to the feelings than to resolve the difficulties which arise from them . |
| 4 | The expression " capital sum " does not include any sum which could not have become payable to the settlor except in one of the events specified in the proviso to TA 1988 , s673(3) ( these relate to bankruptcy , assignment , marriage and death under the age of 25 ) . |
| 5 | But I ca n't help drooling at thoughts of the enormous quantities of top-quality drooling of top-quality jewellery and purses bulging with sovereigns that must have slipped unnoticed to the ground while all of those ‘ gaieties ’ were taking place . |
| 6 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 7 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
| 8 | In other words Africa may have remained close to the region of major sub-lithospheric heating which preceded the breakup of Pangaea and this may explain why it has a high mean elevation today in spite of lacking significant orogenic belts . |
| 9 | He would have recovered the property from the Hammonds but the property would have remained subject to the charge . |
| 10 | He was right to be gloomy , and he should have remained gloomy to the end . |
| 11 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 12 | She would have to get used to the way she looked in black and white . |
| 13 | The public will have to get used to the idea that the electricity board can switch off room heaters or water heaters by remote control . |
| 14 | I did want to lose weight so much for it , but have had very little success so will have to get used to the idea of being the back-end-of-a-bus in comparison to Heather . |
| 15 | ‘ Sorry , my girl , I am , and you 'll just have to get used to the idea . |
| 16 | Pete Messenger 's licence to grow hemp increases from 5 to 500 acres next year — so the local drug squad will have to get used to the idea of legal fields of cannabis in Oxfordshire . |