Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The manning hours at Hartlepool had to be reduced as we are trying to cut the amount of money that the tax payer has to find to run a socially necessary railway . |
| 2 | ‘ And now I think the time has come to explore a little further . ’ |
| 3 | This works fairly well , but many people will consider that the time has come to consider a more rigid mounting . |
| 4 | In the world of manuscripts , ‘ miniature ’ has come to have a rather puzzling significance . |
| 5 | ‘ Biogeography is a field of study which has come to assume a slightly different meaning for different disciplines . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the pressure of working-class parties and trade unions has helped to produce a much more substantial intervention by the state in the economy , and this situation , although it can be interpreted from one aspect as the emergence of a new type of ‘ organized ’ or ‘ managed ’ capitalism , does also constitute a degree of protection of working-class interests against the power of capital through the general regulation of economic activity and the provision of an extensive network of social services , however imperfectly this may be done . |
| 7 | Anyone who has had to teach a mathematically based subject will know the difficulties which students encounter in negotiating a new level of abstraction . |
| 8 | And to make a successful television career , Sue Lawley has had to tread a very careful path of being acceptable ( mainly to men ) as both a woman and a ‘ professional ’ . |
| 9 | This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units . |
| 10 | Energy conservation policy as pursued in the UK ( eg pricing policy , loft insulation grants and various publicity campaigns ) has tended to embody a relatively passive philosophy , relying on the consumer to respond appropriately . |
| 11 | In fact , the 1959 Act has worked to secure a very large measure of freedom in Britain for the written word . |
| 12 | Apparently , the dolphin has learned to use a partially formed seine-net ( which works by encircling a school of fish ) to catch fish , while the fishermen wait in the river for the arrival of a large school . |
| 13 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 14 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 15 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 16 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 17 | They 'd meant to get a little fucked up . |
| 18 | I have had to try to explain a rather sophisticated argument : last year their pensions were increased by more than 10 per cent. , when the increase in the cost of living was lower . |
| 19 | However , the tally of six underestimates the total effect because some MPs unsympathetic to Left-wing ideas may have decided to retire a little early rather than face a battle for re-adoption . |
| 20 | With free trade and payments in the early fifties , the United States would have tended to secure a far greater share of world trade . |
| 21 | If he had been asked what Roland Michell was , he would have had to give a very different answer . |
| 22 | I would have liked to see a slightly higher register developed , moving more towards a normative academic usage and away from the predominantly plain-language lexis which characterises the work . |
| 23 | In a further six cases ( one in Newham , five in Ipswich ) the development officer said she would have liked to provide a little extra help but a support worker was rejected by the client or his informal carer ; and since they did not require the kind of direct help which the development officer could provide , she merely visited occasionally to check whether or not the situation was breaking down . |
| 24 | I had intended to adopt a more conciliatory approach , but his whole manner made me angry . |
| 25 | They lacked any direct involvement in the origins of those hostilities and were clear-eyed about the depleted resources with which they had to work to arouse a usually indifferent public . |
| 26 | The road system built up since the Romans had come to serve a much heavier traffic load in the later Middle Ages as the county became wealthier . |
| 27 | Given the party 's increasingly isolated situation , given its general lack of prestigious cultural figures , it is not surprising that by 1928 Barbusse had come to enjoy a particularly favoured position within the ranks of the PCF itself . |
| 28 | For one of the founders of the sociology of religion , Emile Durkheim , history showed beyond doubt that religion had come to embrace a progressively smaller sector of social life . |
| 29 | Long ago , outside Kyrenia , he and this man had come to know a little of one another . |
| 30 | Julia , who had come to understand a little of Allegra Wallington 's character in the short time they had spent together , was as anxious as David to prevent that happening . |