Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Eagleburger , who has already offered to resign , said he would be taking ‘ corrective actions ’ . |
| 2 | The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof . |
| 3 | If you would like to receive my prayer letter please contact Joyce MacPherson who has kindly agreed to distribute it for me . |
| 4 | But there is n't an officer of the crown who has n't had to put his hand deep in his own coffers to make good what should be crown expenses . |
| 5 | I think I am the only one who has n't had to pay any fines for not missing a tournament . |
| 6 | There 's no one who has n't had to confront this problem . ’ |
| 7 | a person commits an offence if , for payment or not , he knowingly exposes or delivers to another person who has not consented to receive it any item which , on the ground that matter contained or embodied in it — ( a ) is concerned with human or animal sexuality , or ( b ) depicts violence or cruelty , or ( c ) is gruesome or disgusting , may , if taken as a whole , be expected to outrage the majority of persons who are likely , having regard to all relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear it . |
| 8 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 9 | To this day it is nearly impossible to find a Canadian movie screened ; in any of our cities , or investment capital which would allow a cutting edge industry to develop in Saskatchewan rather than Idaho , or a cultural figure who has not had to make it in the US ( Bryan Adams ) or the UK ( Conrad Black ) before the person is taken seriously at home . |
| 10 | In a press statement , visiting Capital House Chief Executive Norman Riddell — who has since left to join Invesco Europe as Chief Executive — and the Manx subsidiary 's Managing Director Bob Straskiewicz said that Capital House was a truly world-wide operation . |
| 11 | That was presented , last July , to yet another secretary , Lord Young , who has since refused to publish it . |
| 12 | Producer for both the new single and October-scheduled album was Craig Leon — he of numerous Fall credits — who has finally managed to capture the beefy FADS live sound on tape . |
| 13 | Deborah feels she is lucky in having a mother who has deliberately tried to encourage a good self-image . |
| 14 | Yet at least England can now hope in the future for better things from the bat of Lewis , who has always looked to have the ability to be a genuine all-rounder at Test level but until this match had scored just 483 runs from 15 Tests at an average of 24 . |
| 15 | The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success . |
| 16 | Yet it is in precisely this sort of situation that a woman who has hitherto chosen to stay at home with her children may need to seek work . |
| 17 | This account of how a sturdy and friendly young American wins the heart of the irascible and hostile Earl of Dorincourt , the grandfather who has hitherto refused to see him , acquired a largely undeserved reputation for sentimentality . |
| 18 | Hardy , who has twice failed to win the European title , can feel somewhat fortunate to be matched with the International Boxing Federation champion , Orlando Canizales of Mexico , in Sunderland on January 24 . |
| 19 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 20 | The question facing women 's studies today is the extent to which she has , in the last decade , matured into the dutiful daughter of the white patriarchal university — a daughter who threw tantrums and played the tomboy when she was younger , but who has now learned to wear a dress and speak and act almost as nicely as Daddy wants her to . |
| 21 | Someone who has only agreed to buy ( i.e. to whom property has not yet passed ) can not do so , Shaw v. Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis ( 1987 C.A. ) . |
| 22 | Network SouthEast 's marketing director , David Walker , said : ‘ Anyone who has ever tried to use the 1,500-page British Rail timetable will know just how complicated it can be to plan a rail trip . ’ |
| 23 | This comes as no news to anyone who has ever tried to render into English verse so much as a strophe of Horace . |
| 24 | Another simple definition which will appeal to everyone who has ever tried to slim : More weight loss for less willpower ! |
| 25 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 26 | Anyone who has ever tried to grow peaches outdoors will be familiar with ‘ Taphrina deformans ’ , the fungus which causes peach leaf curl disease . |
| 27 | Considerable skill in getting plants established was also required — it is only too easy for gaps to appear , or for an odd man out in flower colour to pop up , as anyone who has ever tried to grow a complete row of vegetables or lay out a bedding plan , will know . |
| 28 | He deserts her in Italy some years later , and she finds her way back to London where she is reunited with her uncle , who has never ceased to search for her . |
| 29 | His dress was austere enough , but rich and ample , and worn with an authority that comes only by birth , and his movements had the unmistakable quality of nobility , the absolute conviction of one who has never had to hesitate or use caution and humility in order to placate his betters . |
| 30 | Lord Young , a minister who has never had to face an election , has a meagre reservoir of affection and support among Tory backbenchers . |