Example sentences of "have [verb] [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , while we certainly agree that the policy of the law in regard to the formalities for the creation and transmission of interests in land should be upheld , we have to acknowledge that that policy has been substantially modified by the developments to which we have referred … |
| 2 | I have to see if this key fits the deposit box and if there 's anything there which will throw some light on my family . ’ |
| 3 | But I have heard that that scoundrel El-ahrairah means to come and steal them if he can . |
| 4 | It was not sufficient that any bystander would on those facts have realised that some injury was inevitable . |
| 5 | Since then , many other doctors who treat food intolerance and chemical sensitivity have claimed that such sensitivity can produce a wide range of mental problems . |
| 6 | The principles for the provision of services for drug misusers are exactly the same as those for heavy drinkers , with the proviso that services have to accept that many service users are initially very reluctant attenders and are sent by the courts , police , school or parents . |
| 7 | As we have seen , it is hard to draw the line between a conscious human being and a conscious machine likewise , we have to accept that any entity possessed of consciousness is in reality a living organism — whatever its physical characteristics . |
| 8 | Many have objected that this analysis is hardly Marxist — insofar as Marxism takes the form of an analysis of the misappropriation of surplus value . |
| 9 | In the past , some purists have said that all surface decoration applied to designed objects — all ornament , in other words — must be based on motifs which look flat , ie. they must not be drawn with a third dimension : you are allowed to make a pattern out of squares , so to speak , but not cubes . |
| 10 | But the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have said that this unemployment and recession are a price well worth paying . |
| 11 | We have seen that each system was forced to delay making a decision about the identity of a stretch of sound . |
| 12 | In the north we have seen that this village planning may have taken place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 13 | However , we have seen that this approach can be criticized on the grounds that the discourse structure of the interview is still present and that attempts to obscure the nature of the speech event are likely to lead in practice to confusion and difficulty . |
| 14 | We have seen that this information is really only useful if it can be obtained accurately and consistently across writers . |
| 15 | We have seen that this strategy had addressed the relation between certain population habits ( what Farr had defined as the vital statistics of marriage and divorce , fertility and fecundity ) and the nation 's economic prosperity , health and happiness . |
| 16 | Several times , in bars , glancing up from our Bud or our Molson or our Miller , we have seen that same shot on the mounted TV : like a eugenic cross between swordfish and stingray , the helicopter twirls upward from the ocean and crouches grimly on the deck of the aircraft-carrier , ready to fight . |
| 17 | It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) . |
| 18 | They have argued that most crime is petty and that the increase in recorded crime is more to do with the public 's decreased tolerance than anything else : |
| 19 | Many observers have argued that some form of planning is therefore essential if the optimum outcome for all concerned is to be achieved , but carefully administered recreational facilities in the countryside will not be sufficient on their own . |
| 20 | Rival pollsters have argued that this finding should be handled with some caution . |
| 21 | On the one hand , there are those who have argued that this variation is largely determined by inherited potential . |
| 22 | In particular , structuralist Marxists have argued that this approach is historically limited and misunderstands the contradictory role which military expenditure performs for capitalist economies . |
| 23 | Yet , while this account of loss of functions and dwindling significance might appear to be almost self-evident , many sociologists — most notably Talcott Parsons ( in Parsons and Bales , 1956 , pp. 16–17 ) — have argued that this picture is much too simple . |
| 24 | Some have argued that this policy of ambiguity and delay reflected wishful thinking on his part , a misguided belief that he could somehow parlay his personal standing with all parties into a new consensus that would hold the communities together long enough for a French-financed modernization programme to work its magic . |
| 25 | Since Lenin , Marxists have accepted that this consciousness only arises if it is ‘ injected ’ into workers ' movements by an outside agency , a revolutionary party or intelligentsia . |
| 26 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 27 | But it is a central implication of the argument I have presented that this price will have to be paid . |
| 28 | Some breeds such as Cocker Spaniels will bark repeatedly , and studies have revealed that this behaviour is far more common in dogs than in their ancestor , the grey wolf . |
| 29 | To ease this strain the Training Committee have decided that more use should be made of the services of other qualified teachers to teach on Q.T. days . |
| 30 | Experiments have shown that many relaxation techniques result in a state of consciousness quite unlike either being awake or being asleep . |