Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point .
2 In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth .
3 He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation .
4 BRITAIN 'S trade deficit has soared to a seven-month high , partly due to the pound 's devaluation .
5 Deconstructionism has pointed to the inherent flaws in structuralism — that , for example , binary oppositions are not absolute , but are dependent on their social meaning — and has celebrated the idea of ‘ subjectivity ’ .
6 In a challenging analysis Hans Medick has pointed to the increasing output of gin as indicating greater working-class expenditure on leisure .
7 von Beyme ( 1980 ) has pointed to the potential influence of union size and pluralistic divisions upon the degree of union democracy .
8 Secondly , he has pointed to the expressive dimension of the reward system , in addition to its instrumental qualities .
9 Hubbard ( 1981 ) has pointed to the inbuilt sexist assumptions of much biology , while Lanser and Torton Beck ( 1979 ) have pointed to the exclusion of female writers and critics from syllabuses of English .
10 Much recent management research has pointed to the multi-dimensional objectives of large divisionalised companies where ownership is separated from management .
11 Laura Levine has pointed to an interesting relationship in early modern England between fears of sodomy and fears of the theatre .
12 ANOTHER OF WAINWRIGHT 'S walks , Robin Hood 's Bay to St Bees , a 200 mile walk from coast to coast across England , has fallen to the conquering boots of Kevin Treacher .
13 The hope that a new Church of the poor has given to the impoverished masses of this region is the most significant political development in the region in recent decades .
14 May I say how welcome is the strong support that Great Britain has given to the Baltic states ?
15 It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose .
16 Moscovici has referred to the second process by which social representations are produced as objectification .
17 I am a member of the Select Committee on Health and , as you know , the House has referred to the Select Committee on Privileges the important issue of the leaked report .
18 Isabel Emmett has referred to the formal and informal mechanisms of selection as the ‘ social filter in the leisure field ’ , allowing different groups access to different facilities , more or less easily .
19 Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity .
20 ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick !
21 In this , the second annual report on our environmental activities , a range of examples are given to demonstrate how ICI has responded to the environmental challenge opposite each of our objectives .
22 The research will seek to show how the Council , originally set up in mid-nineteenth century when medical practice was greatly different from today , has responded to the changed circumstances .
23 The ideology of the enterprise culture through society has penetrated to a considerable degree to the young who grew up under Thatcher — ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ .
24 AIR France has protested to the European Commission over alleged favouritism towards British Airways in recent takeover deals .
25 However , a number of United States courts have considered cases in which service has been effected by registered mail upon defendants in Japan , a state which has objected to the other modes of service listed in Article 10 but not to the use of the postal channel .
26 Hong Kong has objected to the proposed ban because its stockpile of 670 tonnes — the tusks of up to 75,000 elephants — is worth $134m , while at least 3,000 jobs in the colony depend on the ivory carving industry .
27 Firstly , it is a family archive covering the period since the thirteenth century ; secondly , the dukes of Norfolk have been Earls Marshal and Hereditary Marshals of England for many centuries ; and finally , as the family has adhered to the old religion , many documents have an important bearing on English ( Roman ) Catholic history .
28 A rough estimate of the amount of water that could have been entrained by this fireball is , where R is the radius of the fireball when its pressure has dropped to the ambient value ( several kilometres for a 10-Mton nuclear blast ) , and the density of atmospheric water vapour ( several times ) .
29 The turps in the jar has congealed to a semi-solid jelly around the brushes .
30 It 's clear our little truce has come to a grinding halt .
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