Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A witness has come forward to say he heard the police fire before Place . |
| 2 | So far , not a single witness has come forward to throw any light on Joanna 's confused account of her abduction on Tuesday night from outside the Harpenden Leisure Centre where she worked . |
| 3 | published their review , little has happened to improve the acceptability of the ITPA and , in terms of the developments which have occurred in linguistic theory and our knowledge of children 's language acquisition , a great deal has happened further to undermine its theoretical foundations . |
| 4 | As the wood is an 8,000-year-old oak wood only eight miles from the centre of London on a site of special scientific interest , could not the Department have done more to insist that the important new road going close to my constituency was cut-and-cover ? |
| 5 | Mr Forsyth said that the tenants ' association had tried hard to improve the quality of life for all concerned . |
| 6 | So far our programme had kept well to schedule and we were feeling quite pleased with ourselves . |
| 7 | Verbal exchanges in the days leading up to the opening ceremony had served only to heighten the interest in the event . |
| 8 | How Chant had longed then to return to the ether from where he 'd been summoned ; to shrug off the body which Sartori had congealed around him , and be gone out of this Dominion . |
| 9 | The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , the Consumers ' Association , and the Department of Trade and Industry have got together to produce a leaflet to warn you of garden hazards which you may not be aware of , and may not be aware of , and how to safeguard against them . |
| 10 | We , in Norfolk , are exceptionally proud that their determined effort and hard work has enabled both to pass the exam in only eighteen months of training . |
| 11 | Subsequent experimental work has failed both to clarify fully the exact mechanisms involved in frost weathering and to define precisely the climatic conditions under which the process is likely be most effective . |
| 12 | The passage into law has failed fully to satisfy campaigners who argue that proper parity has still not been won for Scots families . |
| 13 | That , however , is not much use to the retailer if the boy has chosen instead to sue the retailer for breach of contract . |
| 14 | The Institute has worked hard to ensure recognition of the professional work done by such staff and operates its own qualification procedures . |
| 15 | It announced that : The National Council has decided immediately to approach with concrete proposals the British Labour Party , the Trades Union Congress , the Co-operative Party , the C.P.G.B. and all other working class bodies . |
| 16 | The Council has worked hard to secure agreement on the proposals and it must be stressed that the improved package offer presented recently to NALGO represents the best balance between the interests of staff involved and Council Tax payers . |
| 17 | For five years — and at a cost of at least £150,000 — the council has tried unsuccessfully to reach agreement with Mervyn Sweet , of Chapel Farm , to protect the meadows . |
| 18 | Some years earlier , the Liverpool Watch Committee had tried unsuccessfully to ban police officers from membership of rival Protestant and Catholic quasi-political organizations . |
| 19 | The cat had done well to run for shelter … |
| 20 | Topaz had tried hard to heed Benedicta 's warning , but it was impossible . |
| 21 | Although the Security Council had voted unanimously to send a mission to investigate the killings , this had been frustrated by the Israeli government 's refusal to co-operate . |
| 22 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 23 | Consumers ' Association and the National Consumer Council have worked hard to break the monopolies on air fares in Europe with some sympathy from the Commission . |
| 24 | But old boss Beck knows Dublin will come back fighting : ‘ The lad has battled hard to get to the big time and he wo n't forget where he 's come from . ’ |
| 25 | It 's why Heggie Group has invested heavily to ensure it stays an approved repairer . |
| 26 | The structure of the Group has altered radically to accommodate its changing operational requirements . |
| 27 | David and his team had worked hard to win the appointment in the face of tough competition from other financial institutions . |
| 28 | An even less flattering appraisal of her charge came from Libby Heath after Clare Villar 's Quick Reaction had made all to win the Men 's Open under Simon Andrews . |
| 29 | Nana 's form was to skip the next two hundred years of Jamaican history and tell Martha how her husband had gone away to work in Panama and never come back , and how Martha 's own father was in America now . |
| 30 | Experts from ICI and the Worldwide Fund for Nature have worked together to help shape the ‘ Environment ’ module and the overall approach to environmental issues in the Nuffield Modular Sciences project for GCSE science teaching in the UK . |