Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , an unwholesome condition has developed in the previously productive , though often contentious , relationship between science and government . |
| 2 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 3 | It has been suggested , for instance , that wages in Japan are determined by mechanisms based largely on profit maximization , while Matsuzuka ( 1967 ) has pointed to the closely related variable of organization size in determining wage disparities , as well as age and duration of employment service . |
| 4 | Giddens in particular has pointed to the very varying ways in which Freud used the words id , ego and superego . |
| 5 | The material that has fallen into the more massive of the two galaxies rekindles the quasar at its core . |
| 6 | Chapter 3 has referred to the very low overall rate of national population growth in recent years . |
| 7 | This year a robin has nested in the closely interlacing branches ; last summer there was a wren . |
| 8 | A further deposit of maps , plans and charts from Mr R. Quentin Stevenson , mainly consisting of material used by the Stevenson family in their civil engineering projects in Scotland , has added to the already significant number of maps from this source . |
| 9 | In 80 years , GM has grown into the most powerful industrial conglomerate in the United States , and one of the biggest multi-national companies in the world . |
| 10 | The July , 1983 ‘ Andropov ’ experiment has built upon the more sensible of these measures , also reviving some of the decentralising features of the aborted 1965 reform : most interestingly , a wage norm based on ‘ normative ’ rather than ‘ quantitative ’ ( piece-work ) indicators , thus , ( it is hoped ) promoting innovation and productivity . |
| 11 | It has operated on the rather inequitable basis of paying different amounts of money or none at all according to the source of disability rather than its extent . |
| 12 | He has seen in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the emergence of a commercial " leisure industry " responding to a bourgeois desire to emulate the existing minority culture of the elite . |
| 13 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 14 | The House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Committee has argued for the more active use of fiscal policy ( in other words a more aggressive use of tax cuts in recession ) because of the constraints on interest rate changes caused by ERM membership . |
| 15 | The authors of this study point out that because today 's youth is being failed by the parental generation where the all-important factor of mature superego-formation is concerned youth has turned to the more primitive and regressive superego-formation found in groups . |
| 16 | However , more recently , concern has shifted to the more insidious problem which affects the entire population — pollution of roadside areas by leaded petrol . |
| 17 | But the man whose first year as chairman has co-incided with the most traumatic period in Liverpool 's history , spoke out to ease the pressure on Souness . |
| 18 | To date , research has focused on the most obvious feature of living things : cell multiplication . |
| 19 | Many commented that the concentration on child abuse skewed their professional response to the needs of children and families more generally : Finally , one study ( McGloin and Turnbull , 1986 ; 1987a ; 1987b ) has focused on the much more restricted issue of the effects of parental participation at child abuse review case conferences . |
| 20 | There are , of course , many more rasboras seen from time to time , and this article has concentrated on the more popular species commonly available . |
| 21 | The government has bombarded savers with opportunities to buy shares — generally on the cheap — in recognisable and profitable enterprises , it has tempted them with a succession of tax breaks designed to promote share ownership , and it has presided over the most sustained equity bull market of modern times . |
| 22 | Significantly , much confusion has derived from the apparently different economic and social priorities set by government employees , other planners , conservationists and farmers . |
| 23 | Komsomolskaya Pravda , which has emerged as the most informative of all Soviet newspapers because it runs articles others refuse to print , depends on the Pravda printing house , which is owned by the party . |
| 24 | The repeated application of this technique of varied adaptation to each movement has led to the not unjust description of Clemens 's Masses in particular as sets of variations . |
| 25 | Thatcher 's climbdown over the phenomenally unpopular community charge has led to the phenomenally complex council tax . |
| 26 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 27 | This government have to be made to realize what a cruel blow it has struck on the very weakest sections of the community , the unemployed and the five and half million pensioners living in poverty . |
| 28 | Blenkin , for example , ( 1980 ) believes ‘ the most recent generation of teachers has worked through the most rapid period of curriculum development in the history of state education ’ ( p. 45 ) . |
| 29 | Much of the improvement in survival has resulted from the now routine use of cyclosporin as an immunosuppressive agent . |
| 30 | Speaking in a Johannesburg synagogue on Sept. 14 , Mandela said : " On the eve of real negotiations , forces determined to wreck the peace process have implemented a strategy of destabilization which has resulted in the very real and terrifying prospect of full-scale civil war breaking out . " |