Example sentences of "have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance it is offering a number of parallel application development packages — Linda , Express and PVM — alongside the AIX Parallel Environment Software that the company has developed itself for the SP1 . |
| 2 | At p596 Stamp J asked the rhetorical question : … how can a British Income Tax Act impute to a foreign resident " for the purposes of " that Act an income of which the foreigner has divested himself under the foreign law and which in his hands is altogether outside all the provisions of the Income Tax Act ? |
| 3 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 4 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 5 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 6 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 7 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 8 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 9 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 10 | That matter is high on their agenda , and the hon. Gentleman may recall that the Labour party has distinguished itself over the past 40 years by being wrong about practically every foreign policy and defence issue that has come before it . |
| 11 | On the continuum of penal philosophy which stretches from the punitive to the reformative , the Nicaraguan penal system has placed itself on the far edge of reform . |
| 12 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 13 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |
| 14 | The first argument to scotch is that Britain has committed itself over the years to accepting the single currency and the central bank . |
| 15 | In 1867 Bagehot may have been able to write that ‘ a republic has insinuated itself beneath the folds of a Monarchy ’ ( 1965/1867 : 94 ) . |
| 16 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 17 | As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution . |
| 18 | There are many teachers who feel that things are that bad , and for whom , at some tacit level of decision-making , becoming ‘ like that ’ has presented itself as the only sensible , or the only possible modus operandi that is left . |
| 19 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 20 | ‘ Their precious Republic has ruined itself over the Naples war . |
| 21 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 22 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 23 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 24 | In research terms , this has shown itself in the way that it has become perfectly acceptable to use a wide variety of research techniques in one study , and to use different techniques for the study of different topics . |
| 25 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 26 | The extent to which the company has transformed itself over the past dozen years should not be underestimated . |
| 27 | It often seems to Christians that the Christianity which has wrapped itself round the person of Jesus has served to obscure rather than communicate its raison d'être . |
| 28 | Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will . |
| 29 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 30 | BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 . |