Example sentences of "have [verb] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN Oxford student has plunged to his death after a late-night drink and drugs party . |
| 2 | The quality of those crosses was nt up to much most of the time — but some credit has to go to their keeper who was taking everything within 12–13 yards of his line … |
| 3 | ‘ It looks at the moment as if she has fallen to her death , ’ a spokesman told TODAY . |
| 4 | The main work-load on programming , the implementation of change and steering through the necessary mass of procedures and consultation to successful conclusion has fallen to my department 's team leaders , and in particular to Ruth in Personnel and training . |
| 5 | The Neurocranker — an elite class competition climber with a body and brain augmented by medical and computer technology — has fallen to his death from a competition climbing wall 5,000 metres above Tokyo . |
| 6 | A patient has fallen to his death from a window of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon . |
| 7 | A monument he has erected to his wife ( née Brobity ) is more of an encomium upon his own virtues than upon hers ; his father . |
| 8 | Adam Drabo has since become a folk hero , for the inspiration he has given to his country 's people to rid themselves of corrupt government . |
| 9 | Whilst therefore making full allowance for the diversity of gifts God has given to his Church in the varying capacities he has accorded to different members , Paul insists that the Spirit creates unity , and that it is the job of the Christians to keep that unity and not spoil it . |
| 10 | Er Mr has referred to his preference for the release of lots of small sites on the basis that erm they will be er Leeds residents would be less aware of them than if all the sites are collected together in the form of a new settlement . |
| 11 | Director Joel Schumacher has referred to his tale of love and death as an AIDS-era movie but the coyness of using a ‘ safe ’ illness like leukaemia as a metaphor for the terrors of AIDS is just another example of Hollywood 's penchant for skirting the issues . |
| 12 | The Primate of the Episcopal Church in the USA thanks God for ‘ the gifts ordained women have brought to our church and the wholeness that has come to its life ’ . |
| 13 | Quite fortuitously early music has come to its aid : Montpellier co-produces all the operatic ventures by William Christie and his Arts Florissants . |
| 14 | advise the bank/organisation if the policy is not renewed as soon as practicable after such non-renewal has come to their knowledge ; |
| 15 | Now one of the Russian physiotherapists has come to their home in Lydbrook in the Forest of Dean to work intensively with Stephen . |
| 16 | Farmers here are trying to shrug off the legacy of communism and collective farming which caused the steady decline in agriculture and Don Powell has come to their aid . |
| 17 | In several ways his position reminds me of Bakhtin , that other thinker who has come to our rescue from the ( necessary ) tribulations of post-Saussurean thought . |
| 18 | Nothing has come to our attention to indicate that the following statements made in the directors ' report are unreasonable in all the circumstances : |
| 19 | Consider what children might actually be required to do in response to each of the following : Why do you think the giant has come to our town ? |
| 20 | Following Mr Singh 's purchase of neighbouring land for a supermarket , it has come to my knowledge that , reluctantly , customer car parking facilities demand that he also purchase ‘ The Tip ’ for a car park . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 22 | It has come to my mind that it is contrasting er spiritual |
| 23 | Because something has come to my mind only during the past few days , when I learnt that the Gipsy Working Party by five votes to four had recommended that the Rockhill site go forward for consultation . |
| 24 | It has come to my attention that students have been copying software with staff encouragement . |
| 25 | But I repeated them in Ezra Pound. : Poet as Sculptor , and nothing that has come to my notice since , including an erudite and adulatory article on these cantos by David Gordon in Paideuma 4 ( 1975 ) , has made me want to retract my words or change my mind . |
| 26 | ‘ Father Prior , ’ said Brother Jerome , between outrage and satisfaction , ‘ something has come to my notice that you should know . |
| 27 | A very odd case has come to my department — we always seem to get the odd ones — concerning the disappearance of the managing director of a shipping company . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Wansbeck believes that no inward investment has come to his constituency and , if that is the case , I am sorry for his constituents . |
| 29 | What has come to his rescue is an altogether subtler kind of ideas and information-limitation whose effectiveness is , if anything , enhanced by the fact that it can not easily be explained in terms of conspiracies and blunt propaganda . |
| 30 | The company has added to its strength in systems software — particularly the DOS operating system which comes with every IBM-compatible personal computer — with a range of word-processors , spreadsheets and other applications software . |