Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australia 's defeats at Swansea and Llanelli , and only four tries in five matches in Wales , have given new hope to home players and fans only 12 months on from the 38–3 record home defeat at the hands of the Wallabies . |
| 2 | Gilbert is now acknowledged to have been a brilliant geomorphologist who made a contribution which anticipated many of the developments half a century later and whose deductions regarding stream and landscape mechanics ‘ have given new life to quantitative geomorphology in the twentieth century ’ ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 , p. 572 ) . |
| 3 | We have given strong support to the Sports Council and its efforts to raise participation in sport . |
| 4 | The Government have given renewed priority to improvements in the infrastructure — in roads and railways and other transport . |
| 5 | One of several players to have come into the Armagh side of late to join the more experienced brigade , Mark is following in the footsteps of two of Killeavey 's most distinguished players , Gareth and Padraig O'Neill , both of whom have given great service to the county . |
| 6 | For example , a company may pay off its bank overdraft ahead of its other liabilities because the directors have given personal guarantees to the bank . |
| 7 | Both Catholic and evangelical churches ( particularly those based in the United States ) have given economic aid to villages , particularly in the Ixil ‘ development pole ’ . |
| 8 | Alan Bray and Jeffrey Weeks have given historical support to this view , though not without qualification ; I remarked in Part 1 some further reservations . |
| 9 | More importantly , however , they have given added urgency to the long-running debate about the future of Britain 's inner cities . |
| 10 | while the directors have given careful consideration to whether the company will continue to be a going concern , the directors ' statements can not be a guarantee that that will happen . |
| 11 | I have given careful consideration to the representations I have received on the level of settlement and the views that the local authority associations in coming to my final decisions . |
| 12 | I have given strict orders to my henchmen that if I die in suspicious circumstances , they are to hang my chaplain immediately . |
| 13 | Alternatively or additionally subjects may genuinely feel that there is greater subjective difference within the few films they have given high ratings to than within the many they have given lower ratings to and have been at least partially successful in avoiding what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms equal frequency biases . |
| 14 | Strong , well-constructed playground equipment is available from various firms who have given particular attention to safety factors for children with special needs . |
| 15 | They wish to develop alternatives to the traditional approaches that have given privileged positions to discoveries , innovative theories , to the world of ideas . |
| 16 | Representatives of 30 European countries , meeting in Geneva , have given near-unanimous support to proposals to set stiffer targets for reductions in emissions of sulphur dioxide . |
| 17 | Legionnaires ' Disease , Sick Building Syndrome , Humidifier Fever and problems from contaminated ductwork have given fresh emphasis to the need for regular inspections , monitoring and specialist cleaning of water and air conditioning systems . |
| 18 | The authorities have given special emphasis to the financial instruments offered by banks and building societies ( Bank of England March 1983 ) . |
| 19 | In Western society we have marginalized elderly people to a considerable extent , maybe because we place more emphasis on economic than on personal worth . |
| 20 | We have done many injustices in the name of freedom which have enslaved entire cultures to the technologies and interpretations of our world view . |
| 21 | DOCTORS have taught pregnant women to be an anxious lot . |
| 22 | Basler have undertaken extensive modifications to the already capacious DC-3 cargo door . |
| 23 | The women 's organizations in Nicaragua and ANDES 21 de junio , the teachers ' association , have arranged weekly visits to the camps to talk to the women about the political situation in El Salvador and to help them organize collectively : |
| 24 | In the past , some terminal manufacturers have developed proprietary solutions to the problem of adding windowing functionality to character-based applications , but these have tended to fall by the wayside . |
| 25 | It may be that they have developed new sensitivities to foods , or that they are becoming chemical-sensitive . |
| 26 | Among the 12 recipients are : Johnson Matthey , whose autocatalysts , are world leaders in a global market worth hundreds of millions of pounds a year ; Pilkington , whose energy saving glass is projected to be worth more than £100 million a year by the late 1990s ; Agricultural Genetics Company and Horticultural Research International , which have developed biological alternatives to chemical pesticides ; Sericol , for the development of water-based screen printing inks ; Ricoh UK Products , for chlorofluorocarbon ( CFC ) elimination in selenium drum production ; and Kerry Ultrasonics , whose water-based cleaning system replaces the need for CFCs . |
| 27 | It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them . |
| 28 | Hence , Herring et al. ( 1988 ) described the design of SQL extensions to a new object-oriented GIS ; Abel ( 1988 ) has reported work on the creation of SQL-based spatial extensions to a relational database in the ‘ Spatial Information in a Relational Open-architecture database management system ’ ( SIRO-DBMS ) project ; and Ingram and Phillips ( 1988 ) have designed spatial extensions to a hybrid GIS data model . |
| 29 | LUDICROUS LOLLIPOPS , sticky-fingered guitar popsters , have added extra dates to their current tour at |
| 30 | Commenting on the mission Iain McTaggart , SCDI 's trade promotion executive , said : ‘ The high profile events in Spain last year have added fresh impetus to the country 's economic development and we are hoping to capitalise on the emerging opportunities in the principal commercial centres of Madrid and Barcelona . |