Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the time the first pioneers arrived to the present day , the white man has felt compelled to tame the desert , to reduce its primeval vastness to human dimensions . |
| 2 | The Sri Lankan government has moved to try to counter the criticisms of its human rights record . |
| 3 | France Telecom has moved to try to improve the situation — nearly a month ago , the operator reviewed its objectives and decided to offer GSM service to 90% of the French population in 1994 , rather than in 1997 , as it had previously planned , but that was not enough to satisfy the new government . |
| 4 | Inevitably , the very fact that someone has decided to try to record the child 's language makes this ideal unattainable . |
| 5 | This is not their fault but entirely due to the speed with which the programme has had to move to meet the RHA target date . |
| 6 | The investors suspect that accelerated payments are the price Mr Outhwaite has had to pay to settle the disputes with other syndicates . |
| 7 | The Lutheran Church leadership has agreed to meet to re-evaluate the role of women in the Church 's activities . |
| 8 | A campaign has started to try to cut the rising number of children dying from solvent abuse . |
| 9 | Mejka has denied attempting to pervert the course of justice and two offences under the Companies ' Act . |
| 10 | AN INVESTIGATION has begun to attempt to discover the identity of a badly-decomposed body found in a forest ditch near Dundee . |
| 11 | Recognition , has launched Netbuilder to give the neural networking a more conventional look and feel , it says . |
| 12 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 13 | One is that the figure of 300 per cent increase in productivity just happens to be that which would have had to occur to cost-justify the installation of CAD given capital and wage costs in the early 1980s in the UK when this figure gained currency . |
| 14 | There is then a no gain/no loss disposal of his investment in the old company , and the gain that would have arisen goes to reduce the base cost of the qualifying investment . |
| 15 | The Czech Prime Minister , Petr Pithart , called on his Agriculture Minister , Bohumil Kubat , to resign on July 12 for having failed to act to solve the problems of marketing agricultural produce . |
| 16 | After receiving a government post ( in 1813 ) he seems to have felt bound to repay the debt of obligation by political services , especially at election times . |
| 17 | As on all the other Monaghan Days stretching far back he had come intending to stay the night . |
| 18 | The church was full of the women and girls who had attended the morning service and had decided to wait to see the wedding . |
| 19 | 15 She had good reason to suspect that it would , for long before the 1924 show opened , she had decided to try to convince the critics to change their ideas about her work by changing the nature of what she exhibited . |
| 20 | He loved the tough life of thrill and fear and his excellent war record had made it easy for him when , in 1941 he had decided to apply to join the newly formed Parachute Regiment . |
| 21 | The government charged three executives of the Nairobi daily Standard with publishing false reports claiming that people had died attempting to resist the demolition team ; the charges were dropped in mid-July . |
| 22 | While the area health authority ( AHA ) had commissioned work to consider the future of its long-stay hospitals , the looming 1982 reorganization of the NHS by which the area tier of authorities was to be abolished , did not augur well for any initiative to be taken forward from such work . |
| 23 | And somebody was following , a colleague was following , saw it happen , stopped and helped him sort of do what you 've got to do to get the man 's address and this sort of thing , make sure the car was alright , and took him into the office . |
| 24 | ‘ The more you pay attention to the body , the less attention you 've got left to pay the soul . |
| 25 | We 've got to look to keep the momentum going . ’ |
| 26 | Fortunately , the crew were not then aware that in recent recorded history three men had perished trying to walk the same route in midwinter . |
| 27 | All the months which Sally-Anne Tunstall had spent trying to erase the memory of what had happened to her , her refusal to remember any part of it , were as nothing . |
| 28 | From his point of view he had asked to go to see the gorillas and he had been told ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 29 | I mentioned this in view of the fact that Eliot had wanted Rowse to read the original essay , and I was anxious to see whether he still recommended this . |
| 30 | Not that he did n't know its history — he had been part of it , if only as a silent witness of his brothers ' refusal to join the Fenian organisation which had started trying to recruit the young men of their day . |