Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] " 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 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 3 | We did not achieve that , but the Regional Council has undertaken to carry the full costs itself . |
| 4 | During the same period , it has voted to change the Russian constitution — itself new — on roughly 50 occasions . |
| 5 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 6 | The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees . |
| 7 | Last week Lord Skelmersdale told the Lords that ‘ the government 's decision is that the time has come to implement the 1975 Act … . it is the large number of reservoirs for which no one appears to take responsibility which gives rise to the greatest concern , he added . |
| 8 | Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ . |
| 9 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 10 | In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's . |
| 11 | Gradually over the years the term has come to mean the minimum number of members who must be present if the meeting is to transact business . |
| 12 | Its own root is ‘ thought ’ , and from that it has come to mean the inner debate of a person who is reasoning with himself . |
| 13 | The life-is-a-party world of Xuxa has come to portray the official version of Brazilian reality , with its glossy blondes and creamy morenas — and very few blacks . |
| 14 | Thus , ‘ Congress has come to dominate the national politics of federalism , and its members have gained that dominance by crawling inside the details of federal grant programmes and examining the effects of the distribution of federal money ’ , instead of the states deciding it themselves . |
| 15 | If one man has come to symbolise the hard , inner edge that has driven England to such success it is Winterbottom . |
| 16 | It has come to expect the steady increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue , but it also distrusts science because it does n't understand it . |
| 17 | The time has come to bring the two modules together in the big program called EVOLUTION . |
| 18 | Over this period an influential school of thought called monetarism has developed around his ideas and has come to challenge the Keynesian orthodoxy as the dominant academic influence over monetary policy . |
| 19 | Now the Government has moved to tackle the growing problem with four hard-hitting TV advertisements , as part of a £1.4m crackdown on sniffers . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal has struggled to reconcile the two decisions but has come in for criticism . |
| 21 | While Boris Yeltsin has struggled to control the Russian parliament for a year , Kalmykia 's 30-year-old president , Kirsan Ilyumzhinov , has solved a local version of the same problem in a day . |
| 22 | The European Community 's environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , has threatened to take the British government to court for failing to comply with the EC 's drinking water directive , which sets limits on levels of toxic and microbiological pollution . |
| 23 | Norway has threatened to leave the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) unless it is allowed to hunt minke whales in the north-east Atlantic and the six-year ban on commercial whaling is lifted . |
| 24 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital Gatt agreement , aimed at averting a damaging international trade war , if its demands for a better agriculture deal are not met . |
| 25 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital agreement if its agriculture demands are not met . |
| 26 | He said If this person who ever he is has decided to join the Tory party then it is a matter for him and a matter of small regret but not one which will cause us to lie awake worrying about . |
| 27 | In the book-building for BT-3 , Warburg has decided to allow the 11 members of its global selling syndicate to pitch to any big institution anywhere , dispensing with national or regional tranches reserved for national firms . |
| 28 | Judy Robinson has decided to leave the Grey Horse , on Bank Top , as her rent will double from £13,000 to £25,000 a year under a new 20-year lease . |
| 29 | The League 's management committee has decided to invite the two candidates it agreed upon on Monday for interview , but the head-hunting process which has caused so much vexation is threatening the ultimate embarrassment . |
| 30 | The League 's management committee has decided to invite the two candidates it agreed upon on Monday for interview , but the head-hunting process which has caused so much vexation is threatening the ultimate embarrassment . |