Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 9in ( 230mm ) boundary wall , which has cracked due to settlement , is to be replaced . |
| 2 | A stake in the business , which has come near to bankruptcy , is put up for sale . |
| 3 | They are great colonisers of damaged reefs , whether the damaged reefs , whether the damage has occurred due to tourism , with attendant pollution , from shipping traffic or sedimentation . |
| 4 | ‘ If we are talking about who has contributed most to hairdressing , it would have to be Vidal Sassoon . |
| 5 | We guarantee to meet claims from readers made in accordance with the above procedure as soon as possible after the advertiser has become subject to bankruptcy proceedings , or has gone into liquidation , up to a limit of £16,000 per annum for any one advertiser so affected , and up to £48,000 in respect of all advertisers . |
| 6 | We guarantee to meet claims from readers made in accordance with the above procedure as soon as possible after the advertiser has become subject to bankruptcy proceedings , or has gone into liquidation , up to a limit of £16,000 per annum for any one advertiser so affected , and up to £48,000 in respect of all advertisers . |
| 7 | The idea has become axiomatic to politics , so much so that people are hardly conscious of it any longer . |
| 8 | Its coat colour and pigmented skin are valued in hot climates where it has proved resistant to eye cancer and also , to some extent , to ticks . |
| 9 | So much has changed in the life of the farm worker , especially the nature of his work ; yet so much , as we shall see , has remained resistant to change . |
| 10 | Pask , who 's a laboratory technician from Horwich in greater manchester , denies murdering Doctor Howe but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibilty . |
| 11 | Her father , William Kwavalskie , who 's from Shurdington in Gloucestershire , denies murder but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter . |
| 12 | Sams has pleaded guilty to kidnapping Stephanie , unlawfully imprisoning her and demanding a £175,000 ransom . |
| 13 | ‘ For centuries he has lived close to calamity : drought and flood threaten his crops and beasts ; diseases , infertility and death afflict his wife and children ; ghosts disturb his peace . |
| 14 | Since everything seemed out of my reach I was reduced to making friends with the pigeons who were everywhere , and whose gentle murmurings I 'd grown accustomed to hearing . |
| 15 | Because of the problems we could have had due to heat stroke I elected to walk with the group carry 50 litres of water . |
| 16 | Having run sixth to Desert Orchid in the Irish National the month following the Cheltenham race and then been beaten a short head by On The Other Hand at the big Punchestown festival in April that year , The Committee ran into a major training setback and never saw another racecourse for two and a half years . |
| 17 | WELL I 'M AFRAID YOU 'LL HAVE TO GET USED TO IT ! |
| 18 | However , " culture " and art " were inherently undemocratic since they stood for processes of feeling , understanding , and evaluation that were considered to have become lost to majority cultures and literacies . |
| 19 | Towards the end of the eighteenth century both pewter and pure tin — natural or silvered — were also being used , though the nobility appear to have remained loyal to brass , it being more convenient for the engraver to work , especially if one 's coat-of-arms was to appear on it . |
| 20 | Okay o a do you think we 've done that to death ? |
| 21 | During those early years of the colony 's existence we received very few of the homeless children who had grown accustomed to street wandering . |
| 22 | And I 've got sixteen to tea . |
| 23 | During the last three years I 've become accustomed to refinement . ’ |
| 24 | One of Linskog 's patients had a lymphatic tumour which had become resistant to radiotherapy ; situated in the jaw , it was making eating and breathing difficult . |
| 25 | Over the years , Dauntless had become used to loneliness , but he suspected that for Cleo it was a new condition which she was having trouble getting used to . |
| 26 | He had become used to washing and shaving in cold water . |
| 27 | The heads reported an increase in the level of job satisfaction that they had experienced due to devolution — although one said he had n't had time to think about it ! |
| 28 | There had been nothing either prurient or arbitrary in their choice of frankly sexual emblems to embody the mystery of the Conjunction ; but even in times less hypocritical than her own such pictures had proved subject to misinterpretation . |
| 29 | Henry wondered if his chum , the great young cellist , had taken untimely to bed because he was trying to keep out of Henry 's marriage , or perhaps because he was nursing loneliness . |
| 30 | The old Eythrope house which had stood near to Bridge Lodge had belonged to the Earls of Chesterfield , who had pulled it down in 1810 and made the most of the high price of building materials then prevailing owing to the Napoleonic wars . |