Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Point of sale systems supplier Riva Group Plc has succeeded in stemming its losses for the year to December 31 by drastic cost-cutting and leaving unprofitable market sectors . |
| 2 | Of course there are individual doctors who are well aware of the mess their profession has got itself into ; but the very fact that they are in a profession , and one which has succeeded in armouring itself against state intervention , makes it hard for them to get their ideas accepted . |
| 3 | Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on Macedonian territory and it has succeeded in getting its neighbours to say the same . |
| 4 | Once a newly proposed bold theory has succeeded in ousting its rival , then it in turn becomes a new target at which stringent tests should be directed , tests devised with the aid of further boldly conjectured theories . |
| 5 | In this sense , the DUP has succeeded in establishing its view of the constitutional crisis and the proper reactions to it . |
| 6 | And , as the European manufacturer operating in the only home market where tenders are genuinely open , ICL has succeeded in making itself truly competitive , so much so that insiders are saying that profits for 1992 will be only slightly below the £62.4m recorded for 1991 , making it the only profitable mainframer in Europe . |
| 7 | Although the fish has been hooked several times , no one has succeeded in landing it . |
| 8 | IN these bleak times it is good to see that one veteran television star has succeeded in resurrecting his career . |
| 9 | Nonetheless our own business remained profitable and has succeeded in growing its market share to the point where it supplies over one third of the gold jewellery materials used in the UK . |
| 10 | Thatcher ) , who has succeeded in abandoning her resistance to German blandishments and has formed a common front with Chancellor Kohl in demanding the immediate and unconditional recognition of Croatia . |
| 11 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |
| 12 | The Womens Artist Slide Library is pleased to announce that it has succeeded in retaining its Arts Council funding for the publication of Women 's Art Magazine and has been offered financial assistance towards the running of the organisation over the next year . |
| 13 | That night a civil engineer — charming , sensible , honest — told me how Rhodesia has boomed since declaring her independence . |
| 14 | ‘ They besieged the record company to get it re-released and they feel proud that the public has responded by buying it in droves . ’ |
| 15 | Rather than deny the nature of the trade , Elie Borowski has responded by saying he ‘ is saving art objects for mankind , to bring them back to the public ’ . |
| 16 | Husameddin claims that one Shuja al-Din Ilyas Celebi , Hoca to the sultan , had become ( was ? ) a highly-regarded mufti in Edirne in 831/1427–8 , " historical proofs ' which Husameddin has chanced upon describing him as One finds also both in the biographical dictionaries and in the chronicles instances of the use of this early period . |
| 17 | Only one of the detectors has hinted at finding something new , but the evidence is thin and the experimenters are keen not to make any premature fuss . |
| 18 | Equally personal is Janet Smith 's The World Outside My Window , the first piece she has made since disbanding her company and the first in a long time that she has made to please herself . |
| 19 | The dangers of perpetuating in power a weakened and uncertain Conservative Party , set alongside the progress Labour has made in modernising itself , justify by a fine margin the risks of a change . ’ |
| 20 | Previously AT&T has talked about decreasing its ownership by going public , an event that was unlikely to take place for at least another year . |
| 21 | Their village post office has helped by providing them with a window display of Wild Thing models . |
| 22 | Critical reservations about New Historicism are overwhelmed by the benefits it has produced in forcing us to reconsider the relations between texts , historical contexts , and the methodologies we use in both establishing and unravelling these relations . |
| 23 | Because er , inevitably man has got ta leave their home , even if they 've had a father erm who 's been a if they 've had no father at all , they 're gon na leave and they 're gon na face a world where they have to be a man and they 're gon na have to find their own male morals , and I think the , the responsibility , basically , has got ta come to men to change not for us to change them . |
| 24 | Well they 'd see there were problems , you see , faith does n't mean that everything just happens , because faith has got ta do something , faith without works is dead . |
| 25 | Yes , David has got ta do his . |
| 26 | Somebody else has got ta get their giro banked pay hundred and thirty quid . |
| 27 | I was thinking , ‘ I bet nobody has thought of giving him a beer . ’ |
| 28 | Since becoming vice-chairman four months ago he has thought of changing it to Owen More Money . |
| 29 | Mr Clinton has spoken out firmly on China 's poor human rights record in the past and has speculated about removing its Most Favoured Nation status which would cripple the developing southern part of the country . |
| 30 | Mr Kaifu has agreed to reshaping his cabinet , but has insisted on keeping it clean . |