Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Office has stopped subsidising one-day energy surveys for industry and commerce and there is little accessible public information . |
| 2 | As a result the company has stopped accepting fresh landings of scallops |
| 3 | Parliament has intervened to give special protection to press reports of statements made on significant public occasions , and there are hints — no more — that in certain cases the courts may be prepared to extend protection of qualified privilege to media investigations of major public scandals . |
| 4 | Perhaps the one piece of good news is that ‘ Kent R Allen , chief financial officer of the company , has resigned to pursue other interests ’ : put most diplomatically . |
| 5 | A meeting of the Chinese State Council has voted to impose severe measures on those who destroy wildlife . |
| 6 | And the team Allan Border is leading there are missionaries again of a sort : cricket on the island lives hand-to-mouth , and political upheaval has repelled touring international sides for five years . |
| 7 | It is , however , suggested that where a new basis for constitutionality has come to enjoy universal acknowledgment or sufficiently widespread acquiescence , the judge 's obligation to uphold the law points in the direction of endorsing charge rather than blindly ignoring it . |
| 8 | The time has come to kick fast food . |
| 9 | When the doctor confirms that it is important to provide care , or when too much anxiety is felt in leaving an elderly person alone , the time has come to consider alternative options . |
| 10 | And I think the time has come to consider extra reward financially for your loyalty . |
| 11 | Art Deco has come to mean brilliant colours , curved upholstery and angular , geometric designs . |
| 12 | The problem is that just like the ‘ moral treatments ’ of the nineteenth century , normalization has come to mean different things to different people , and professionals who have espoused the concept of ‘ normalization ’ often proselytize their views with a religious fervour which , though often motivating to fellow staff , can be alienating to those who are unfamiliar with the concept . |
| 13 | Thereafter confusion set in and , from scenes of events , groups of figures , etc. , presented on a very small scale , the term has come to mean elaborate pictures , much more ambitious than the historiations and sometimes extending to the whole of a large page . |
| 14 | A woman will say something like , ‘ Oh look , he 's got a cute butt ’ and some geek standing next to her , sensing that his chance has come to make serious waves in the world of sexual politics , will whine , ‘ You would n't like that if I said that about a girl . ’ |
| 15 | Since that time HIV has come to dominate gay life in this country . |
| 16 | Variable analysis is an inferential structure , a form of methodological reasoning , that has come to dominate social research . |
| 17 | The rescue of two skin divers in appalling weather conditions has won Acting Coxswain James Dougal a Silver Medal for Gallantry . |
| 18 | The Vitara has grown to accommodate extra doors |
| 19 | Samwell was a gentleman architect of considerable accomplishment , whose achievement has been undervalued , although John Aubrey [ q.v. ] considered him ‘ an excellent architect , that has built severall delicate howses ’ . |
| 20 | What 's more , Vladimir Popovic , who took charge of Red Star last season , has quit to become national team manager of Peru . |
| 21 | SunSoft vice president of sales and marketing Bill Larson has moved to become vice president of SunSolutions , the Sun Tech unit responsible for groupware like Show Me . |
| 22 | Gould has threatened to take legal action and has written to the Prime Minister claiming his civil liberties were infringed . |
| 23 | THE Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , has threatened to take disciplinary action against Fianna Fail backbenchers who criticise his Northern Ireland policy . |
| 24 | THE Wine and Spirit Association has threatened to take formal complaints of environmental health officers ( EHOs ) ‘ deemed to have abused their authority ’ to Government level . |
| 25 | The EC has threatened to impose economic sanctions on any Yugoslav republic that rejects its proposal , which calls for the break-up of Yugoslavia in its current form . |
| 26 | Some bright spark has decided to import top US comedy SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — good call , Garth , while the ubiquitous Jools Holland introduces homegrown music and comedy in THE HAPPENING . |
| 27 | FOLLOWING the completion of his assignment to co-ordinate the integration of Johnson Brothers into the Wedgwood Group management structure , managing director Robert Johnson , has decided to take early retirement from the Company . |
| 28 | FORMER Darlington goalkeeper Jeff Wealands , who went on to play for Hull City and Manchester United after leaving Feethams , has decided to quit senior football . |
| 29 | The government has decided to back private ownership . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know whether it 's coincidental , ’ he says , ‘ but there was a big article on the front of the Japanese equivalent of the Financial Times saying that the government has decided to improve financial reporting standards . |