Example sentences of "have [verb] to create " in BNC.

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31 If I had wished to create a hard and more definite edge or accent then I would have had to ensure that everything was dry .
32 If Melissa had wished to create the character of an elderly Frenchwoman for one of her novels , she would surely have chosen Antoinette Gebrec as her model .
33 But at Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust , they 've decided to create a Kingfisher paradise .
34 It was reported on July 3 that the RSFSR Supreme Soviet had decided to create an autonomous German raion in the Altai region of Siberia , historically an area of German settlement where 127,000 ethnic Germans were now living .
35 How many millions had died to create this blotchy , congealed stew ?
36 So you 've got to create something quite simple and effective in which they can be successful , which is n't so demanding as you would for the other group .
37 That , that you 've got to create it for them .
38 So you nee you 've got to create or preserve a group who have a surplus over and above subsistence .
39 The existence of this power resulted , ironically , in the fact that those African newspapers which had campaigned vigorously for the nationalist cause now enjoyed less freedom under the very governments that they had helped to create .
40 In general respectability was achieved and the consequence of that was that the movies had moved somewhat decisively away from the masses that had helped to create the industry .
41 After all , it was the wilderness that had helped to create him .
42 This feature of quantum mechanics proved very distasteful to some of the very men who had helped to create the subject .
43 At the end of May , , the minister for small companies , called for a greater sense of risk and enterprise in any new market which might succeed the USM and , in emphasising the importance to the country 's economy of smaller-company activity , pointed out that companies with fewer than 20 employees had helped to create 350,000 new jobs between 1989 and 1991 .
44 NATO had proposed to create a new " rapid reaction force " in Europe , which it wanted to bear the responsibility for the front-line defence of the region , as the USA 's own troop presence in Western Europe was wound down [ see p. 38216 ] .
45 The newspaper pointed out that , while Nicholas Ridley had created the National Rivers Authority to oversee the state of river water , he had refused to create a similar body to monitor tapwater and bring prosecution of polluters .
46 She breathed in the cool Japanese atmosphere she had worked to create for him , looked at the slatted chairs , the pale greys , the yellows .
47 By the beginning of March , as many as 640 oil wells were alight and individual smoke plumes had combined to create a regional plume 1000–2000 km in length , extending frequently to the south-east and periodically to the north-east .
48 Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike .
49 The Shah had built up his armed forces and had begun to create a nationwide secret police , but he had done almost nothing to meet the disparate but urgent demands of his people .
50 In the mid nineteenth century , Fermin Caballero attempted to divide agricultural Spain into three parts : the Cantabrian regions , where the hard-working race of ‘ gothic ’ small farmers had survived to create a stable peasant economy ; the basins of the Guadiana , the Guadalquivir , and Aragon , where the economic legacy of the Arab conquest was the latifundia ; the centre , where the two races had mingled and left an intermediary , medium-sized farm .
51 We 've not managed to clear the speaker 's part of the platform as entirely as the Americans do , but at least we 've managed to create a decent space around the speaker .
52 In the weeks she had been here , she had managed to create an area of ordered calm which spoke of high efficiency and brisk management .
53 The inter-war German democracy was precarious precisely because it was grafted on to a social order that had failed to create the very basic social and political conditions that would allow a democratic system to flourish , but also because while German expansion in the east had been halted , the drive to the east was still seen as a tantalising solution to all of Germany 's problems .
54 By the Edwardian period it had become inescapably clear that middle-class evangelism had failed to create a working class in its own image ; the great majority of London workers , particularly , were not Christian , provident , chaste or temperate by middle-class standards , while the artisan and skilled worker had developed social and political patterns of their own .
55 Clever publicity , orchestrated confusion over the equipment involved and a gullible pop industry have conspired to create a wave of enthusiasm in some parts of the press and the music industry .
56 My dream is achievable because all we have to do is stop doing some of the things we are already doing : stop using the productive forces we have developed to create disabilities through warfare , environmental pollution and industrial accidents ; stop creating disabilities through poverty by using our vast wealth not in pursuit of capital accumulation and profit , but in ensuring that we all have the necessities to sustain material life ; and stop judging and treating people on the basis of the contribution they can or can not make to the development and operation of these productive forces .
57 But if the room is not to look a complete jumble you have to try to create distinct areas for relaxing , sleeping , eating and work .
58 Build on it , as I have done to create permutations of shape .
59 Since 1979 we have sought to create an accountable local government system capable of delivering high quality local services at a price that local people are prepared to pay .
60 But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action .
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