Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Robinson 's vocal has developed just the right pitch to keep you straining to hear his every word , the kind of kick-ass , hell-for-leather growl that sounds great and is heightened by the honey sweet gospelly chorus of backing singers Barbara Richardson and Taj . |
| 2 | While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged . |
| 3 | The 1988 Education Reform Act and earlier legislation has altered entirely the political context in which history teaching operates . |
| 4 | Underlying all the problems is the urge to exploit , which has poisoned both the cultural ethos and the natural environment . |
| 5 | As Prime Minister , Rajiv Gandhi of India has pointed out the real practical problem is that the rich will evade very high rates of tax . |
| 6 | Often the policies of individual railway companies determined what happened As Professor Simmonds has pointed out the Great Western was mainly concerned with long distance traffic in its early years . |
| 7 | Using traditional measures of religiosity , he has pointed out the apparent failure of English catholic schools to produce better catholics and fewer ex-catholics than state or other schools , and has inferred the likelihood of the same for Irish schools . |
| 8 | In particular , it has lobbied both the British Parliament and the European institutions with demands to break up the brewing monopolies and to restore greater choice to pub users . |
| 9 | Hudson ( 1984,1987 ) has catalogued how the reforming penal language of the 1960s became replaced with that of justice and punishment during the 1970s . |
| 10 | James R. Silke was to refer to how Warners offered ‘ heroes made from life ’ and Janet Graves has explained how the rigid financial limits imposed at the studio placed a premium on good dialogue and good acting . |
| 11 | ICL has filled out the top end of its DRS 6000 range with new multiprocessing models 780 and 782 in the 700 series . |
| 12 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |
| 13 | Christopher Taylor has given perhaps the best example of this in a study of settlements in the Nene Valley . |
| 14 | The number of top lady paddlers in sprint , shalom and coaching is legion and it would be invidious of me to select names although one has honoured canoeing by being awarded an MBE a few years ago and more recently one has completed almost the ultimate in canoe expeditions by paddling round the Horn . |
| 15 | The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time . |
| 16 | Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms . |
| 17 | Garin Jenkins has sorted out the front row and the Webster-Reynolds-Stuart Davies back row can live with any in the leagues . |
| 18 | The reigning European Barefoot Champion has picked up the British Waterski Federation 's highest award for her outstanding achievments . |
| 19 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 20 | Since moving to Australia in 1983 he has enjoyed both the informal Australian approach to life and the outlook of writers like Stoddart and Richard Cashman : ‘ They are much more challenging in their approach , less constrained by conventions , ’ he says . |
| 21 | A good deal of language teaching has followed a bottom-up approach , in that it has considered only the formal language system , often in isolated sentences , without demonstrating or developing the way that system operates in context . |
| 22 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 23 | Yet the capricious nature of golf has seen even the mighty Ballesteros humbled in the Championship . |
| 24 | So far he has tracked down the chemical 3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid . |
| 25 | Edward Simpson , former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the DES , and ironically in charge of planning for almost a decade , has argued cogently the same case for more resources for primary schools as a result of the introduction of Local Management of Schools . |
| 26 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 27 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
| 28 | Now that the Commission has turned down the unanimous decision of the Catering Sub-Committee to invite the London food commission to give advice on how healthy and nutritious the food in the Members ' and Strangers ' Cafeterias is , what will the Leader of the House do to improve the situation ? |
| 29 | However , the actual reproduction or modernist form over the last century and a half has revealed exactly the opposite tendency , since objects formed entirely on the basis of utility have proved singularly unattractive ( which accounts for their general absence from commercial marketing ) . |
| 30 | As the sells his beers to the free trade and to national brewers ' pubs he has noticed both the swingeing price increases imposed by the brewing giants and the reaction among their tenants . |