Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I might 've considered coming into the business if dear Daddy had n't already got Big Brother as a co-director , ready to take over from him , and if he did n't make it so plain that he only tolerates me because I 'm your husband .
2 The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages .
3 To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what representations he has received calling for the introduction of internment without trial ; and if he will make a statement .
4 Glen , 17 , has received backing from the members and officials of Sacriston Workmens Club to assist in paying for costly travel expense .
5 Similar action should be taken , so that the dog is told to be quiet , and you disappear until it has stopped barking for a few moments .
6 Although most of the work reported in the literature has examined chaining to a separate overflow area , this is not the most effective way of using chaining .
7 The same situation was prevalent in England over a decade ago , and while the new breed of English walls has blossomed to state of the art types such as Newcastle 's Berghaus Wall , Scotland 's walls remain poor relatives .
8 More recently Halifax Labour MP Alice Mahon has given backing for a code , and referred the matter to the parliamentary select health committee for consideration .
9 All this has vanished save for the church , of which St Augustine 's chapel is an original fragment .
10 Although the scale of each consultation exercise , and the make–up of the consultation list has differed depending on the topic in question , there are a number of key tasks which have to be carried out .
11 The precise meaning attached to these terms has varied depending upon the setting in which they were used .
12 The Banking , Insurance and Finance Union has resolved to cooperate with a scheme for voluntary redundancies but says it could take industrial action if the job losses are made compulsory .
13 A profound historical amnesia has come to settle around the Teds whereby rock-and-roll outrages of the past , together with the magnified excitements that accompanied them , have been smuggled out of sight .
14 The time has come to leave behind the national humiliation and recriminations that have resulted from sterling 's suspension from the ERM
15 And as patients have become more involved in identifying and negotiating areas for learning and behavioural change , the field of investigation has come to borrow from the theories and practice of counselling .
16 But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement .
17 The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail .
18 On the 27 January 1991 Siad Barré fled the country , and the clans embarked on the intractable conflict which has come to look like a nation intent on destroying itself .
19 Life or death has come to depend on the proper functioning or malfunctioning of super-sensitive equipment over a couple of seconds .
20 Whereas the good introduction impresses , the poor one depresses , conditioning the reader to anticipate inaccuracy , poor understanding , irrelevancy , muddled thinking-all the qualities , in fact , which the experienced examiner has come to associate with the weak or poor response . "
21 This is where family work could be useful helping the whole family to understand the part alcohol has come to play in the life of the vulnerable elderly person , the pattern of abuse , the defensiveness about it , and the likely outcome .
22 The periodic ‘ Fed bashing ’ which one has come to expect of the incumbent political Administrations has again resurfaced .
23 The chapter has come to rest with a description of the currently established , liberal-democratic , constitutional theory — a theory which argues that the constitution provides for a system of Cabinet or prime ministerial government within a larger parliamentary democracy in which Parliament is legally sovereign and the people are politically sovereign .
24 Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital .
25 Fundamentally , many regard the ‘ conflict ’ over housing as an extension of the major divisions in society and argue that the allocation of housing is determined largely by the power that each group has come to possess in a society with a long history of class conflict ( Haddon 1970 ; Duncan 1976 ; Mellor 1977 ) .
26 The opposition now says that it will use the councils it has won to agitate for the dismantling of Mr Jayewardene 's centralist vision .
27 RCI supplies sales automation software for the AS/400 and Unix markets , but has undergone restructuring in the form of management changes and product rationalisation .
28 This phase will only be entered if no errors were detected during the prepass phase and the user has selected to continue at the end of the prepass phase .
29 Jip tells of something he has seen written on a wall : ‘ If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand we 'd be so simple we could n't ’ ( 88 ) .
30 THE province 's economy has been ‘ on hold ’ during the past two years as the rest of the UK has struggled to cope with the recession , a leading economist said today .
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