Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 2 | As the technique has developed so the range of applications in clinical practice has expanded . |
| 3 | Over the years he has pieced together the plane 's last , dying moments from the second one of its engines caught fire . |
| 4 | As the cost of technology has fallen so the factors have been able to offer clients links into their databases . |
| 5 | The UK Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) has highlighted both the need to maintain safety standards in the face of competing pressures and the importance of organisational factors in preventing accidents inside and outside the nuclear industry . |
| 6 | The president of Edison , New Jersey-based Verbex Voice Systems Inc has skedaddled so the board has picked chief operating officer Larry Dooling , former USL chief , to replace him . |
| 7 | In this case the arbitrator has to accept either the position of the management or that of the workforce — the purpose of such arbitration is to encourage moderation , by discouraging unrealistically high pay claims from the workforce and unrealistically low offers from the management , in the expectation that a traditional arbitrator would eventually ‘ split the difference ’ between the two positions . |
| 8 | Since then , this committee has organised both the sing and the musical festival . |
| 9 | Couples had the lowest stroke average of 1991 ( 69.52 ) and this year has won both the Los Angeles and Bay Hill tournaments , been second twice , third once , sixth , 13th , 16th and 25th . |
| 10 | Only one horse , Mandarin , has won both the Gold Cup and the ‘ Grand Steep ’ as it is affectionately known . |
| 11 | Community care has pushed forward the idea of bringing more people out of institutions to live as independently as possible . |
| 12 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 13 | In the event my Lord , erm , that er your Lordship felt that further guidance was required , there are the two routes that I 've indicated to your Lordship briefly yesterday , there is the route of er seeking some information , if your Lordship felt it 'd be of assistance to you in resolving any doubts that you may have from the and your Lordship has seen yesterday the notice on co-operation which is in and at page eleven thirty two and is also the exhibit |
| 14 | As the prevalence of HIV-1 infection among homosexual men has risen so the risk of exposure to HIV-1 with each unsafe sexual encounter will have increased . |
| 15 | After Peter explains the equal spiritual standing of the non-Jewish Christians , this is the response : ‘ When they heard this , they had no further objections and praised God saying , ‘ So then , God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life ’ ' ( Acts 11:18 ) . |
| 16 | The latest row , over which should own the Crimea-based Black Sea fleet , has revealed both the strength of irredentist feeling in Moscow and the depth of animosity in Kiev towards the northern neighbour . |
| 17 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 18 | This has been undesirable , but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference . |
| 19 | The Minister has made exactly the point that I was making — that , in effect , a tiny minority has claims that are unfounded and without merit . |
| 20 | The State Administration for Environmental Protection has made public the names of 3,000 businesses which it says are responsible for the lion 's share of China 's industrial pollution . |
| 21 | This might seem rather beyond primary schoolchildren , but Zimet ( 1976 ) has shown conclusively the need for all children to become aware of possible bias , intentional or otherwise , in the books they read . |
| 22 | But at the same time the leadership of the organised working class has had neither the imagination nor the capacity to attempt to force a radical restructuring of the national economy on working class terms . |
| 23 | For the general view of music-making in the Nineteenth Century is inaccurate : time has winnowed away the reputations of many of the figures best known at the time , and completely obscured the smaller fry that occupied nine-tenths of the publishers ' catalogues of those days . |
| 24 | Along the way he has brushed aside the wrath of his fellow-judges . |
| 25 | Since that time the land has silted up in the river delta and the sea has retreated so the city , like Ostia , is now three to four miles inland . |
| 26 | Religious faith has become largely the province of the unreflective and the anti-rational . |
| 27 | This has become especially the case in the ‘ new ’ congress of the 1980s , where congressmen and senators have become even more individualistic and less amenable to control than before . |
| 28 | Contemporary changes therefore need to be placed in the context of a continuous process of change in English rural society that has affected both the character and the structure of English villages throughout their history . |
| 29 | RTP North has demonstrated clearly the benefits of teamwork by winning our Branch Cup on four consecutive occasions . |
| 30 | Johnny plans to work the climb this summer ; he has already managed all the moves but still has to piece together the sequences . |