Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Colorado Springs , Colorado-based Cray Computer Corp has had to have another rethink on its strategy for its delayed and now down-sized Cray-3 supercomputer . |
| 2 | ( Alternative ending : Finally , I must pay tribute to the bridesmaids Sharon , Natalie , Margaret and Sue whose invaluable support has helped to make this day so successful . ) |
| 3 | Deutsche Gramophone has chosen to call this album ‘ Horowitz the Poet ’ , which is by any standards an annoying an inaccurate title . |
| 4 | In recent years the NUAAW has striven to overcome some of its organizational difficulties by recruiting more workers in the agricultural ancillary industries , especially in food-processing factories . |
| 5 | A Russian scientist has attempted to mimic that development by starting with wild foxes and breeding the most timid ones . |
| 6 | The traditionalist camp has had to swallow some bitter pills . |
| 7 | Cleveland County Council 's economic development subcommittee has agreed to allocate another £12,000 to a European development programme . |
| 8 | Under provisions contained in the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 Parliament has sought to remove all scope for political bias in teaching and in extracurricular activities . |
| 9 | Parliament has chosen to discharge this function by placing primary responsibility upon a scrutiny committee formed especially for the purpose . |
| 10 | In any case , if a writer has managed to put some key point rather well , why not both give him the credit for doing so , and at the same time avoid struggling to reinvent the wheel ? |
| 11 | Greenfield has attempted to apply this to other cultures , using questionnaires given to Wolof children to establish an empirical basis for the distinction ( 1972 ) . |
| 12 | During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other . |
| 13 | Since it was established in 1938 , the board has endeavoured to coordinate all the organisations for women in the Church , and to promote action in them . |
| 14 | The lack of sponsors has meant the taxpayer has had to foot more of the bill . |
| 15 | The association has agreed to meet this expense but it will be pointed out to the Youth Club that if they are responsible for any further damage they will be required to provide the cash . |
| 16 | Labour has failed to understand this . |
| 17 | Faculty chairman Peter Wyman told ACCOUNTANCY : ‘ We are very concerned that the Revenue has started to use some of the anti-avoidance legislation to stop people doing what they might legitimately do to try to minimise their ACT problem . ’ |
| 18 | What is regrettable , though , is that the research programme has continued to describe such a wide range of student responses under the same term ‘ learning ’ . |
| 19 | Although the Minister 's Department has refused to countenance such a review in the past , I beg him to think again and announce today that the Government will undertake the urgent review called for by the NACAB and many hon. Members . |
| 20 | Over the past few years , the industry has tended to lean more and more on contract labour . |
| 21 | The ITTO has pledged to bring all tropical forest under " sustainable " management by the year 2000 . |
| 22 | However , a recent study has failed to identify any clinical importance of this marker , either in relation to disease activity or response to interferon alfa therapy . |
| 23 | However , the broad principle which informs Benveniste 's category of the personal is most pertinently extrapolated onto a narrative model by Barthes when he points out that traditional critical practice has tended to attribute all apparently subjective ( or personal ) elements to a psychological reality placed outside the language of the text itself : the mind or personality of the author , the narrator or a character in the story . |
| 24 | Indeed , because of deficiencies , the Air Force has had to change some of its plans for the bomber and may have to dish out an extra $1 billion to correct the problems . |
| 25 | One of the early theories about the causes of hyperkinetic syndrome put it down to brain damage , but research has failed to find any evidence of this . |
| 26 | But the real explanation , it seems , is simply that the Evening Standard 's Commuter Club has begun to highlight all LT 's deficiencies . |
| 27 | Alternative candidate letters and words may be suggested where recognition has failed to provide any . |
| 28 | Quite apart from nearly a hundred years of intensive research having failed to demonstrate such a cause of functional psychosis , there is another important reason why it is totally inappropriate to draw on analogy with the neurological diseases proper . |
| 29 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had decided to use some of the proceeds from its sale of the Harrison-Towns field to build squash-courts , and the Parents ' Association was about to launch an Appeal to raise money for a swimming pool , the lack of which had been bemoaned since the move to Buxton Road . |
| 30 | Where , however , the recorded mileage was exceptionally low for the age of the vehicle and the defendant had failed to make any enquiries even of the car 's immediate previous owner , the defence is likely to fail , Simmons v. Ravenhill ( 1983 D.C. ) . |