Example sentences of "[det] have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 This has simply got to stop . ’
2 This has always seemed to make sense , despite the Scots ' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles , and one 's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket .
3 This has undoubtedly come to pass : Smith 's shock-haired , lipsticked moonface is internationally recognisable and The Cure sell massive quantities of records in every market where bright , sensitive adolescents spend money .
4 This has now developed to include Henley members and has become an official club fixture , the winners rewarded with the Jayemdoubleyou Cup which the late Jack Webb presented and which cup had in fact been his father 's rowing trophy !
5 This had already begun to gather steam with the publication in February 1988 of a White Paper which promised special protection for the nuclear industry .
6 One or two , accompanied by a wife and children , had seemed to regard the tournament as an opportunity for a free family holiday ; and some had even managed to miss the halfway cut , to the great embarrassment of all concerned , except probably Mike Martinez whose twenty-five per cent commission was safe whatever happened .
7 Another had always wanted to work in landscape gardening , not manufacturing .
8 He said yesterday : ‘ Everywhere I 've gone , fans have asked me to do well against Roma , and some have just tried to touch me .
9 Roman Rody-yev has acieved remarkable results with other patients , some have even learned to walk again .
10 Some have not begun to appreciate the purpose of print .
11 … It can , in short , do everything that is not naturally impossible ; and therefore some have not scrupled to call its power , by a figure rather too bold , the omnipotence of Parliament .
12 Some have reluctantly had to give up an earlier nursing career because of ill health , or to care for a dependent partner , close relative or friend .
13 Typically women have been engaged in exchanges of goods and services based on kinship , but these have also helped to create women 's kin relations in particular forms and based upon essentially economic relationships : the care of each other 's children ; lending and borrowing money and other items ; lending and borrowing children 's labour .
14 In many of these the state radio is hostile to the Federal Government ; the latter has therefore decided to establish FRCN radio stations in every state capital .
15 But how many have ever stopped to consider this particular riddle ?
16 Other reasons are less obvious , for firms have not merely reacted to change in their external environments ; many have actively sought to create new , internal sources of advantage .
17 More recent reviewers of the biographical evidence about the latter have certainly continued to comment on the remarkable frequency with which serious mental disorder occurs among outstandingly creative people .
18 As Galadriel says of her Mirror ( I , 378 ) : it ‘ shows many things , and not all have yet come to pass .
19 So it is futile to try to define the homosexual sensibility according to the standards of conventional sensibility : first because the latter has sought to exclude the former ; second because , in retaliation , the former has often worked to undermine the latter and , in the process , challenged the very nature of the aesthetic , fashioning in the process new and sometimes oppositional mutations of it .
20 Although a minority have wanted and planned having a baby , most have not intended to get pregnant , at least not consciously .
21 The 12-strong board of governors meets on Thursday , and although most have diplomatically refused to comment on the row , estimates are that in the absence of any further evidence against Mr Birt in the next few days , he will survive any vote on his future .
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