Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , so it eventually becomes an obsession , and someone has to kill to get the key , but it keeps the audience alert , particularly when there 's a late night knock at the door . |
| 2 | Hereford MP Colin Shepherd has lobbied to keep the base open . |
| 3 | Emma has arranged to spend the weekend with a cousin , so there 's no possibility of being disturbed . |
| 4 | In Piata Universitatii , in central Bucharest , under the looming tower of the Intercontinental Hotel and the glaring neon of a Castrol sign , a crowd has gathered to mark the anniversary and hear political speakers . |
| 5 | Peter White of Midland Bank was less convinced , complaining of the failure of some large firms to adhere to a strict off-limits policy , and described an even worse practice of advancing a candidate who has undertaken to engage the headhunter involved at a later date if he or she lands the job . |
| 6 | The Forestry Commission has undertaken to bear the report 's findings in mind when embarking on future tree-planting programmes . |
| 7 | The institutions are required to monitor their use of the access funds and the Secretary of State for Education and Science has undertaken to review the operation of the funds in due course . |
| 8 | A different possible interpretation of a contract is that , not the buyer , but the seller has undertaken to accept the risk that the goods might not exist , i.e. he has undertaken as part of the contract that the goods do in fact exist . |
| 9 | The developer of the site , Ideal Homes Holdings , has undertaken to reserve the site and provide it free of charge to the school trustees in addition to a one-off payment of up to £150,000 . |
| 10 | The item must be of sufficient quality to be displayed in a public collection whether national , local authority or university , and the owner has to agree to keep the object in the UK , preserve it and allow reasonable public access to it . |
| 11 | A local group has formed to oppose the mining and has held its first public meeting . |
| 12 | Somehow she has to try to extract the information she wants from the information she gets . |
| 13 | Kurt Forster , for the last eight years Director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities at Santa Monica , has resigned to accept the Chair in the History of Art and Architecture at Zurich 's Federal Polytechnic . |
| 14 | Dungannon District Council has voted to scrap the Post Office addressing system which insists letters must include house numbers and road names . |
| 15 | Unhappy about EC proposals on waste transport , the European Parliament has voted to stall the Commission 's draft legislation , with the aim of pressing Brussels into framing even tougher controls . |
| 16 | Leeds polytechnic has voted to change the method by which it elects its President . |
| 17 | The Church of England Synod has voted to approve the ordination of women priests . |
| 18 | * Meanwhile , the US Senate has voted to ban the use of large drift nets in US waters up to 200 miles offshore , as well as their use by US fishermen in international waters |
| 19 | In his eagerness to depict the cloudy psychology of an adolescent , Motion has forgotten to give the boy a personality . |
| 20 | But he says : ‘ He has lost touch with something wonderful — he has forgotten to let the child within him take flight . |
| 21 | As our awareness of ‘ the environment ’ has gown , so has the meaning given to the term expanded until it has come to signify the whole of the non-cultural world . |
| 22 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 23 | You know something 's going on , we have a little surprise set up for you , and I think the time has come to let the cat out of the bag . |
| 24 | He watches a man arrive who , we discover , has come to take the cure at the local sanatorium . |
| 25 | Everyone has come to see the Radio 1 Roadshow and be entertained . |
| 26 | Callinicos ' defence of classical Marxism , of historical materialism , is in the first instance deployed against a postmodernism which has come to proclaim the death of the grand narrative of emancipation and the need for a new form of politics not constructed along the lines of the traditional left . |
| 27 | It 's funny , every time we 've sat at our seats that bloke has come to ask the chap next to me |
| 28 | Mr. Lester submitted that the time has come to relax the rule to the extent which I have mentioned . |
| 29 | Having now worked in both sides of the oil business , Morgan says that he has come to appreciate the importance of high quality cooperation , whether it 's at Grangemouth Refinery or in transporting and marketing oil in the US . |
| 30 | Perhaps now that the forests and other wilderness areas have nearly vanished , these carnivorous animals burn brighter than ever in our consciousness — solitary beacons of wild nature whose continued survival has come to represent the survival of wilderness itself . |