Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Environment Secretary , Chris Patten has agreed to alterations to the County 's structure plan , but it 's still not clear whether the Authority will have to proceed with a controversial scheme for a gravel pit at Finmere . |
| 2 | EPA Administrator William Reilly has called on industrialists to " exercise choice and imagination " in curbing the pollutants , which include carbon tetrachloride , benzene and chloroform . |
| 3 | A report on suicides at Oxford University has called for ways to be found to reduce academic pressure on students . |
| 4 | But it has proved during tests to be very effective . |
| 5 | Fighting has cut off supplies to the refugees . |
| 6 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |
| 7 | The Scottish Office has asked for responses to the consultation document by 27 November . |
| 8 | Celia Cviic ( no , it 's not a typist 's error ) sends two recipes for burek based on street snacks she has eaten on visits to her husband 's family in Yugoslavia ; one with a meat filling , one spinach and cheese . |
| 9 | The White Paper ( see p2 for detailed news coverage ) addresses a number of the structural issues which AEA has identified as barriers to innovation in the UK . |
| 10 | It lay over there with the gold helm made in Germany to replace the helm of Canute 's that had blown in pearls to the wind , beading the ashes of his forebears ' great hall at Orphir . |
| 11 | Service trades offer the opportunity to create jobs quicker because they fulfil a requirement that already exists , rather than attempting to create a market for a new product and often having to wait for factories to be built and machinery installed . |
| 12 | She will be preparing to face the future , having come to terms to some extent with the loss of her previous expectations concerning it . |
| 13 | 6 Any taxes which the Publisher may have to withhold on payments to be made to the Proprietor hereunder , shall be for the sole account of the Proprietor . |
| 14 | In the Middle Ages they would have gone on pilgrimages to the knee-cap of Saint Whoever , to the great profit of the Church . |
| 15 | Having the conduct of the drafting of the agreement is a considerable advantage because points agreed in negotiation can be reflected in the document in the way in which the lawyers drafting it prefer , and it is the other party who is always having to ask for changes to the text . |
| 16 | It would also mean that Scottish programme makers would have to bid for resources to London , where priorities might well be different from their own . |
| 17 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |
| 18 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 19 | It was filled with hundreds of exotic ornaments his grandfather had collected on trips to the continent . |
| 20 | Institutions such as insurance companies which had bought Forestry Commission land had closed off woods to the public . |
| 21 | This group included the veteran politician Mbiyu Koinange , who had participated in missions to the British Colonial Secretary in the early 1950s , and Dr Njoroge Mungai , then a minister in the Kenyatta government . |
| 22 | Darlington Juvenile Court heard how the youth had escaped with cuts to his hand and stomach in the £14,000 blaze . |
| 23 | At the time we had not understood why the team leader had refused this and had asked for referrals to be made directly to her . |
| 24 | ( During his life they had appeared to others to be eight-faceted and eerily insectile ) . |
| 25 | Jordan had been entirely dependent on Iraqi oil since September when Saudi Arabia had cut off supplies to Jordan [ see p. 37728 ] . |
| 26 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 27 | This provocative election showed that dissatisfaction with the government had spread from intellectuals to the privileged . |
| 28 | But to present the full scenario and then vote er on the the different items er so that voting is done on items on the amendment before we then proceed er if you want to we just have to go to amendments to that because of course no two amendments can be on the floor at the same time . |
| 29 | In two months my two albino Oscars have grown from 1″ to 3–4″ , feeding well on pellets , until recently . |
| 30 | Vincent Skinner , the Writer of the Tallies , complained that ‘ the distraction I have had about quarrels to my place have hindered me much and now so utterly discouraged me that the service I intended to have done I could not . |