Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present Survey makes it clear that the continued circulation of such lists has again failed to stimulate the use of foreign-language publications . |
| 2 | " The community of nations has resolutely gathered to condemn and repel lawless aggression . |
| 3 | These last two assurances , his successors had inexplicably failed to provide . |
| 4 | The drivers had finally agreed to race : more or less coerced by their bosses ( including McLaren ) , 99 per cent of whom care rather less about safety than they should . |
| 5 | That being so , and the items being so basic , their lordships held that the parties had not intended to make a contract but had simply agreed to agree . |
| 6 | Although the issue split the centre-left coalition , with most of the Christian Democrats ( CVP/PSC ) voting against and most Socialists ( SP/PS ) voting for the bill , the parties had previously agreed to allow a free vote and not to let the result lead to a government crisis . |
| 7 | Many of the heads had voluntarily opted to trial a scheme of financial devolution because they had expected to benefit from it . |
| 8 | It is hard to believe that Thucydides when he wrote these words had not lived to see at least the Spartan Thibron 's Asian expedition of 400 . |
| 9 | She still faced me , but her shoulders had already begun to turn away … |
| 10 | Coun. Frank Robson ( Lab ) said that Leech Homes had again decided to add more houses to their plans for The Pastures , off Hunden 's Lane . |
| 11 | Nearly a quarter of those in nursing homes had not had to pay towards the cost of living there compared with only 7 per cent of those in old people 's homes . |
| 12 | When they arrived in Portimão , a bustling fishing port some ten miles to the west of Praia do Carvoeiro , the tables which sat in rows in front of the quayside restaurants had already begun to fill . |
| 13 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 14 | Jessamy 's knees had immediately begun to shake , and she had wheeled round and run out . |
| 15 | Environment Ministers from the federal government and the provinces have also agreed to begin recovery initiatives by the end of this year . |
| 16 | It is for this reason that all the superpowers have effectively conspired to exclude nuclear weapons from the ambit of the laws of war . |
| 17 | Japan 's exporters have already had to go through a punishing belt-tightening , prompted by the yen 's steep rise against the dollar after 1985 . |
| 18 | The surety would have to look after himself or herself , as most sureties have always had to do . |
| 19 | The dire warnings of world shortages have not come to pass . |
| 20 | With this aim in mind , import quotas and licensing requirements , restrictions which nations have traditionally used to limit the volume and types of imports entering their countries , are prohibited . |
| 21 | Resisting the temptation to go over the top with innovation ( suspension is coils and dampers not hydropneumatic ) , the designers have still managed to introduce some novelties . |
| 22 | In practice the major use of such agreements has been in the sphere of highway maintenance and construction , where old county boroughs and large urban districts have invariably continued to provide the service on behalf of their county council . |
| 23 | Now I I I do n't think there 's any doubt about this Chairman that that particular group bears er comment from us er er part of the er Conservative resolutions made wants to acknowledge the fact that for the first time all parties , members of the parties have n't started to look in detail at these St Albans and many aspect , many aspects of the Consultants ' strategy of starting to appeal . |
| 24 | It is the particular genius of British politics that the major parties have always managed to hold on to their respective extremists and so to draw their teeth . |
| 25 | The right to have an independent determination arises when negotiations between the parties have broken down ; but what if the parties have never tried to agree ? |
| 26 | The Next Directory is doing good mail-order fashion business and savage cost-cutting in the group 's buying policy and its high-street shops have all helped to produce profits of £8.3 million in the six months to August . |
| 27 | Most authors have usually opted to study either price changes ( F t +1 ; - F t ) or the change in the logarithm of prices ( ln F t +1 ; - ln F t ) , which can be rewritten as the logarithm of the price relative , that is , ln ( F t +1 ; /F t ) . |
| 28 | It is one of the facts of the computer world that there have always been far too many different printer types for the programmers to support and printer manufacturers have never managed to catch on to this simple fact . |
| 29 | Your Mahler performances have always seemed to carry a starker , more purely tragic message . |
| 30 | We we should discuss a bit about this document and I too have had the er dubious honour of reading John Major 's speech and it 's nice to see that both Tory speakers have actually managed to take half of it each and paraphrase it . |