Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its public debt has fallen to 111% of GDP from a peak of 131% in 1987 , but this is still the second highest ( behind Belgium ) of any industrial economy . |
| 2 | It adds that evidence has come to light of two possible explosions involving similar waste . |
| 3 | This principle has been applied , and the money held to be recoverable , in cases where the sanction has amounted to duress of the person of the subject or of his goods . |
| 4 | Carol Chambers of Middlesbrough Volunteer Bureau said : ‘ I rang the Bulgarian Embassy only to find out this guy has written to loads of people . |
| 5 | Labour 's consumer spokesman Nigel Griffiths has written to President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine following complaints over a previous Hoover offer of flights to Europe . |
| 6 | Gloucestershire has risen to top of the national list for thefts from cars … and ninth above London , Thames Valley and Merseyside for total car crime . |
| 7 | Congress , as we are all aware , since nineteen eighty eight , this union has moved to sectionalization of its membership according to their trade . |
| 8 | When Manchester United visit Leeds on February 9 , Cantona will find the adoration has turned to cries of ‘ Judas ’ . |
| 9 | On the one hand , the Labour Party has turned to ideas of democratic socialism , with regard to the control and regulation of capital . |
| 10 | AS THE argument over economic solutions to solve Poland 's ills grows , the debate has turned to ways of maintaining worker interest and participation in industries which will be subject to a tougher managerial and financial climate . |
| 11 | If that happens , you may wish to exercise the rights that Parliament has granted to victims of discrimination to make a complaint to an industrial tribunal . |
| 12 | The Premier has appealed to editors of Tory-supporting papers to lay off Chancellor Norman Lamont and hide the depth of the economic crisis . |
| 13 | indeed , the fourth Directive of the European Commission , which requires a unified reporting system , has lead to consolidation of the position of English as the dominant language of company reports across European multinationals . |
| 14 | NASA engineers said last week that the fault , which has lead to leaks of dangerous liquid-hydrogen , will put back Challenger 's first trip into the heavens by several weeks , probably to March . |
| 15 | The collapse of socialist governments in the USSR and GDR has led to withdrawal of their technical support . |
| 16 | This compares with around three million at the same stage of the last BT share sale in 1991 and has led to criticism of the £15 million advertising campaign . |
| 17 | A police investigation has led to charges of assault against five officers . |
| 18 | The breadth of section 4(5) has led to difficulties of interpretation . |
| 19 | That has led to mountains of surplus ACT in companies where UK earnings are not high enough to absorb the ACT . |
| 20 | The Labour leader 's low profile through the summer has led to rumbles of discontent . |
| 21 | This in turn has led to systems of employment of labour which , while not unique , yet display a measure of variety and flexibility rarely encountered in other industries . |
| 22 | This has led to feelings of abandonment in older people , and of considerable guilt in younger relatives . |
| 23 | This has led to sales of houses , land and contents to meet the syndicate losses . |
| 24 | He says : ‘ Dwindling belief in redemption and damnation has led to loss of fear of the eternal consequences of goodness and badness . |
| 25 | It contrasts somewhat with the wishes of John Patten , education secretary for England and Wales , who wrote last year : ‘ Dwindling belief in redemption and damnation has led to loss of fear of the eternal consequences of goodness and badness . ’ |
| 26 | Research on diabetes continues in many centres , including Oxford , where research on animals has led to techniques of isolating and purifying the human pancreatic cells that produce insulin with a view to implanting them in diabetic patients and curing the disease . |
| 27 | Observation that the red shift in light received from distant galaxies increases with distance , has led to theories of an expanding universe that originated in a big bang . |
| 28 | Describing the new music as ‘ a communicable disease ’ and ‘ the music of delinquents ’ , The Daily Mail was so moved as to run a front-page editorial , ‘ Rock'n Roll Babies ’ , which apart from issuing a hollow , reassuring prophecy — ‘ It will pass ’ — stoked up the fires of respectable discontent against ‘ this sudden ‘ musical ’ ’ phenomenon which has led to outbreaks of rowdyism' . |
| 29 | This approach has led to overexploitation of stream systems . |
| 30 | That the disease ranges widely in severity has led to suggestions of a genotype-phenotype correlation in CF. The most common mutations in Israeli patients with CF — W1282X and F508 — were shown to be associated with a severe disease . |