Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 So much so , that in the conventional use of the term , ‘ being critical ’ has come almost exclusively to mean that the object or action in question has fallen short of the standards in question .
2 Dangle assorted objects from string near him , so he just has to reach forward slightly to hit them .
3 With limited resources , manager Jim Jefferies has done remarkably well to keep Falkirk in the big league .
4 The Kiwi coach has done very well to help the game reach communist China ( see July issue of RW&P , pages 56 and 57 ) where there are hopes that rugby might be introduced to the Chinese armed forces .
5 The RSPCA hopes it has acted quickly enough to prevent the abuse of this new type of farm animal .
6 ‘ I have to tell you that Craig will not be bothering you any longer , he has found somewhere else to stay . ’
7 In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government .
8 For her latest exhibition , Oulton has gone even further to distance herself from Old Master traditions and concepts of Englishness .
9 The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested .
10 Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them .
11 Yet this is also the government which has fought most ruthlessly to bring EuroDisneyland to Marne la Vallee in the early 1990s .
12 None of Mao 's or Mr Deng 's heirs has survived long enough to assume fully their designated role as successor .
13 The light has strengthened enough now to gather binoculars and telescope and start up the car for a look round my ‘ patch ’ .
14 When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ .
15 Yet , despite numerous rows with the contractors , he has failed so far to tinker with the construction contract to any meaningful degree .
16 Budding classicists amongst you will quickly realise that Intel has managed rather clumsily to match a Greek prefix to a Latin suffix .
17 Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime !
18 Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning .
19 I wish he 'd lived long enough to meet you . ’
20 The vitamin E level would have had to fall much further to produce a deficiency and this would have been unlikely to happen in Alan or anyone else unless they are eating a very poor diet indeed .
21 Auditors and tax specialists will have to liaise more closely to ensure that internal procedures allow deadlines to be met .
22 As you embark on the F-Plan you might have to work quite energetically to convince yourself that the supposed virtues of the old low-carbohydrate method of dieting have been disproved by recent research .
23 ‘ Retailers will have to work much harder to persuade shoppers to part with their money . ’
24 ‘ And then we 'd have to come here tomorrow to deal with the car .
25 And if Rod sells this house I 'll have to find somewhere else to live . ’
26 Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion .
27 The old man must have moved very softly to get within twenty yards of him unheard , although the quiet afternoon was in fact a steady rumble and distant clatter of farm machinery .
28 Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election .
29 They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes .
30 Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ?
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