Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RNLI 's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February 1991 . |
| 2 | As for Wolfgang 's opera all I can tell you is that , to put it shortly , the whole hell of musicians has arisen to prevent the display of a child 's ability . |
| 3 | The introduction of contracts has helped to enhance the accountability of providers to purchasers and has opened up a debate about the standards of care that should be delivered . |
| 4 | Editor , — Chris Ham states that ‘ The introduction of contracts has helped to enhance the accountability of providers to purchasers , ’ but from our own research we are aware of some purchasing organisations that have failed to exercise any control over the financial and strategic operations of providers ( presented to the Health Economics Studies Group , York , 1993 ) . |
| 5 | Daly points out that the development of these words has tended to erase the female power once latent in their meanings . |
| 6 | The necessity for longer periods with individual readers has begun to affect the organisation of reading in the classroom ; the teacher finds that he or she needs more time . |
| 7 | Rightly or wrongly , the Pavillon des Arts has decided to emphasise the festive spirit of the time . |
| 8 | She said pedestrian refuges had helped to cut the number of accidents at the southern end of Ferryhill near the Darlington road junction which as seen several fatal incidents . |
| 9 | Indigenous organizations had threatened to boycott the presidential and congressional elections unless their demands were met . |
| 10 | With this came the news that the Barclay brothers had offered to buy the statue and were proposing to put it on show alternately in the V & A and the National Gallery of Scotland . |
| 11 | The report stated that another 40 results were outstanding and that repeat elections were to be held in 20 constituencies where candidates had failed to receive the minimum number of votes . |
| 12 | Elections were thus scheduled for Nov. 18 in these five constituencies , and in seven others where candidates had failed to get the necessary minimum number of votes in the July 29 elections [ see p. 37656 ] . |
| 13 | Alternatively , from another perspective , the clergy had acted to preserve the old divisions . |
| 14 | Yet by the end of 1690 most prominent laymen and clergy had come to take the oaths to the new regime , and only a tiny minority persisted as Jacobites or Nonjurors . |
| 15 | The decision , condemned by some observers as unconstitutional , was reportedly made after it emerged that the suspended ministries had failed to implement the Dec. 10 ban on Hindu religious groups . |
| 16 | It was reported on Aug. 5 that three of Nepal 's smaller communist parties had merged to form the Nepal Communist Party ( United ) in order to " strengthen the left movement " . |
| 17 | Disagreement between the two parties had threatened to topple the government , which in the early hours of Aug. 29 survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence . |
| 18 | Lord Wheatley 's fourth and last guideline was that the parties had agreed to accept the referee 's decision . |
| 19 | Joshi and a small group of supporters had decided to abandon the march at Jammu , ostensibly because of a landslide blocking the route , and agreed to be flown to Srinigar aboard an Indian Air Force carrier . |
| 20 | Then , drinking champagne with journalists , he flew home to a Teheran in which his supporters had tried to re-erect the toppled statues of his father . |
| 21 | The game was already lost in Berne when Gough went and I think the reason for that was that the Scots had failed to find the fire that brought them so close to success in Sweden . |
| 22 | Talks between GM and other European truck manufacturers had failed to produce the collaboration that GM wanted . |
| 23 | It was far worse for the Arabs whose homes lay in that part of Palestine in which the United Nations had decided to locate the new state of Israel . |
| 24 | Then I would find that the grass had carpeted the rubble and the bushes had begun to climb the torn traffic lights . |
| 25 | There have been instances recently where vast commercial organisations and even governments have been compelled to rethink their policies and their methods because a sufficient number of individual supermarket shoppers have decided to demonstrate the strength of their feelings by boycotting a particular item . |
| 26 | Desmond Haynes is the only Barbadian in the 13-man squad after the surprise omission of seam bowler Anderson Cummins and many local fans have threatened to boycott the match . |
| 27 | Rather than adopting a full-blooded process model in which the content of the curriculum might be indistinguishable from the activity of enquiry , schools have tended to see the teaching of a separate study skills course ( albeit sometimes under another name ) , which then facilitates the accessing of content for existing curriculum subjects , as the appropriate path to follow . |
| 28 | WEAR VALLEY : Market traders have voted to reject the council 's latest cost-cutting plans , and say they will strike if a compromise is not found . |
| 29 | Some nations have continued to use the IMF facilities , despite the success of the Euro-currency market in providing large-scale finance . |
| 30 | As one of Nonconformity 's most severe but incisive critics observed , ‘ powerful influences have intervened to elevate the corporate as opposed to the individualist aspect of dissent ’ . |