Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 2 | Now Mrs Thatcher has gone and her successor , John Major , has had to launch the biggest gamble of his political career by entering an election race with his party trailing in the polls . |
| 3 | The result is that [ such copy ] is given to the piece work comp and he has got to make the best of it . |
| 4 | They have published such reviews of the machinery of government in the past — in 1983 , they published the Rayner scrutiny of the HMI — but the Secretary of State has refused to publish the latest internal review . |
| 5 | Although a range of XPG4 specifications have been available for a while now , X/Open says the fact that vendors will bring XPG4-compliant products to market as soon as the end of this month ( see front page ) , demonstrates the measures it has taken to make the latest XPG release more flexible and structured . |
| 6 | This Government has managed to combine the worst qualities of scrooge , Shylock and Genghis khan . |
| 7 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 8 | She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once . |
| 9 | The Torstar Corporation , a Canadian based communications organization , was itself an amalgamation ; in 1967 , the Toronto Star Ltd and Charth Investment and Publishing Company Ltd had merged to form the largest communications conglomerate in Canada . |
| 10 | Letters to his father in 1928 revealed how he had grown to love the oldest part of the Bodleian — Duke Humfrey 's Library . |
| 11 | And therefore you 've got to take the shortest route across . |
| 12 | They ca n't go up there , we 've got to do the best we possibly can , and the Government is doing all it possibly can to help by providing subsidies for housing associations by providing ninety five per cent of the rent rebates which this City Council gives , so on and so forth . |
| 13 | I 've got my life to live and it 's in this house , and I say again , you left me a legacy and I 've got to manage the best way I can . |
| 14 | But it did n't happen like that and you 've got to make the best of it . ’ |
| 15 | We 've got to make the best of a bad job we 've got to find a way of training both C P O's |
| 16 | Wheeler , who was junior to them both , who had contrived to have the best set of rooms in the office and who had successfully requested both men to wait on him , cleared his throat to announce that he was ready to start the discussion . |
| 17 | But for once he had planned to escape the worst excesses of the English winter , and at the beginning of 1950 he embarked with the Fabers on a six-week cruise to South Africa : two weeks getting there , two weeks on the beach at St James near Cape Town , and two weeks back . |
| 18 | By the 1990s the change to the meritocrats had begun to affect the highest levels of the party . |
| 19 | We should advise you that we 've endeavoured to provide the best possible cover for the most competitive premium . ’ |
| 20 | Donna had managed to disguise the worst of the bruising on her top lip beneath some foundation cream and a little rouge had given at least some artificial colour to her cheeks , but as she pulled down the sun-visor on the driver 's side and peered into the mirror she realized she looked as tired as she felt . |
| 21 | She looked at him blankly , conscious of the anticlimax that had brought her tumbling down from out of the clouds , then she nodded , while making an effort to convey the impression that his kiss had failed to have the slightest effect upon her . |
| 22 | FOR years we have claimed to have the best butchers in the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | Governments and international agencies have sought to alleviate the worst effects of economic shocks . |
| 24 | But cost controls have helped offset the worst effects of the downturn , says chairman Sir Roy Watts . |
| 25 | I believe that the arrangements that we have announced give the best chance of ensuring that that will be the case . |
| 26 | Some of the listed newcomers may not sell as well as the established names mentioned beneath them , but they are there very often because publishers are promoting them heavily , and I have tried to pick the best of these . |
| 27 | The study did not spring into being overnight of course , and for over a decade a number of community groups throughout Appalachia have tried to combat the worst excesses of a pattern of landownership which breeds power without responsibility . |