Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crises of 1947 and 1949 might have given strong impetus to planning . |
| 2 | Such elders may have given positive meaning to experiences of anxiety , poverty , chronic illness , multiple losses and death . |
| 3 | And we think that Gen McCreery would have given short shrift to anyone who tried to pull the wool over his eyes . |
| 4 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 5 | Had I been called upon to exercise my discretion , I would have given particular consideration to the great disturbance that I have found the residents suffer . |
| 6 | Once again Bush endorsed a Republican alternative which would have limited extra coverage to a maximum of 20 weeks , and which included an assortment of tax incentives for businesses and individuals . |
| 7 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 8 | ‘ Defence sources in Britain say the man may have done incalculable damage to the NATO alliance before his exposure last week , ’ Loretta read . |
| 9 | However , the company 's activities may already have done irreversible damage to the park , which has been identified as the second most important in the world for bird life , with 10 per cent of all species . |
| 10 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |
| 11 | I would have preferred black pipework to white , for its unobtrusiveness but , more to the point , the hopper itself could have been made of a darker and heavier-gauge material . |
| 12 | And the same amount of things per head of the population will have been produced in the same ways by the same classes of people for many generations together ; and therefore this supply of the appliances for production will have had full time to be adjusted to the steady demand . |
| 13 | We might have to deny medical treatment to sufferers from AIDS and venereal diseases , alcoholics , those injured in sport or road accidents , on the grounds that more animals would be needed to test the new drugs and further the medical procedures necessary to treat the deluge of suffering resulting from the prohibition of testing with animals . |
| 14 | Future social committees will have to give serious thought to the syllabus and the events to be planned for all sections of the community . |
| 15 | Cairns Boston , head of the company 's management team at Land 's End , explained : ‘ We have reached the point where , without these new measures , we would have to give serious consideration to banning climbing altogether at Land 's End . ’ |
| 16 | In Britain similarly parties would have to give careful attention to the locality factor . |
| 17 | In weak party systems politicians may have to give considerable weight to popular opinion and pressures from vested interest . |
| 18 | The new Bill , which goes before Parliament on November 16 , says unions will also have to give written notice to employers of every worker who will be called on to take industrial action . |
| 19 | The information on this project provided by the IDA and the IIRS should have provided sufficient assurance to those concerned regarding the plant suitability and safety for the area . |
| 20 | This misleading view of intonation must have caused unnecessary anxiety to many learners of the language . |
| 21 | If it had gone off it would undoubtedly have caused serious injury to people in the shop . |
| 22 | If it transpired that the intervention notice was not justified , and Lautro rescinded it , a press notice might already have caused substantial damage to the person affected . |
| 23 | It has also been reported that diabetics may have increased vascular sensitivity to angiotensin II ( Christlieb , 1976 ; Weidmann et al , 1979 ) . |
| 24 | The conditions of the farm-workers during the 1890s made gleaning essential : a loss of the gleaned corn would have meant actual hunger to many a farm-worker 's family during the ensuing year . |
| 25 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 26 | Although the Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that it means that the person has drunk ‘ intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects steady self-control , ’ it is arguable that the person must have taken intoxicating liquor to excess so that he has lost the power of self control . |
| 27 | The landlord will have to make good damage to decorations caused by carrying out of works by him ( Bradley v Chorley BC [ 1985 ] 2 EGLR 49 ) . |