Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are on the floor together : the door has to swing to on its own , as it is designed to do , though more for the sake of security than lovers . |
| 2 | UNESCO is the third such agency that the US has withdrawn from in less than a decade . |
| 3 | Indeed half of Littlewoods ' 2.5 million agents have adopted this route and the average number of customers per agent has fallen from between six and 10 to just over two . |
| 4 | In the first of a three part series , Liz Hannam looks at what the society has to cope with in a typical twenty-four hours . |
| 5 | The pragmatism of political urgency must be allowed to sully the purity of intellectual thought ; what is needed , at least in the short term , is what Gayatri Spivak has referred to as a kind of ‘ strategic essentialism ’ . |
| 6 | The worst offenders are almost always Councils controlled by extreme left factions engaged in what the present Chairman of the Conservative Party , Christopher Patten , has referred to as ‘ bleeding-stump politics ’ . |
| 7 | Bad harvests , meanwhile , had once again forced wheat up to famine prices , and the ‘ outbreak of peace ’ after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was to herald what C. P. Hill has referred to as ‘ one of the grimmest periods in modern British History ’ . |
| 8 | Learners who live in what Krashen has referred to as ‘ acquisition-rich ’ environments and take advantage of such settings to use their communicative skills in the L2 , also need opportunities to focus on the functional properties of the language and attend to form . |
| 9 | It is what John Triseliotis has referred to as ‘ a family for life , with its network of support systems not only for them but also for their future children ’ . |
| 10 | The period of the 1940s and the 1950s was to produce what Samuel Beer has referred to as the welfare state and the managed economy , or what some commentators have referred to as the period of the social democratic consensus . |
| 11 | Why does the system in Northern Ireland remain isolated with no connection to any other system , with all the technical and economic disadvantages which that entails and which the hon. Member for Antrim , East has referred to on several occasions ? |
| 12 | Well , there 's nothing , as I understand it there is nothing in the Law Society guidelines but there are certainly references in the professional conduct guidelines which Mr has referred to in the course of this report er which referred to the extent of solicitors in the situation . |
| 13 | I need hardly remind you of the many emergencies that Save The Children has responded to in recent years . |
| 14 | The drought of the previous three years has dissolved into into a huge downpour and now there 's more of a worry about being too much rather than not enough water . |
| 15 | After about four to six weeks , when the temperature has dropped to about 4l°C , the heap should be turned , when a further surge of bacterial activity and a second heating will take place , causing further breakdown of the vegetable matter . |
| 16 | I mean just out of Heathrow and Gatwick I think traffic has dropped by about twenty per cent over the erm past two weeks , but that 's now beginning to pick up again . |
| 17 | Is that what democracy has come to in this country , with the democratically elected Government refusing to listen to the democratically elected Opposition — who will be unable to reveal the flaws in the council tax as we did in the case of the poll tax , and which were soon clear for all to see ? |
| 18 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 19 | It 's feared that the death toll in the Cairo earthquake has risen to at least a thousand . |
| 20 | For instance , if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan , if the international price for the country 's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time , can the loan be regarded as justified ? |
| 21 | Er Chairman I I really have to say I do n't I do n't really agree with the assertion that the policy is is essentially more restrictive than than er P P G seven will indicate and I would endorse what er Patrick Earle has said in in that regard . |
| 22 | Similarly , if I tell you that I am going to move this piece of chalk in front of me , and I demonstrate look here goes right okay , same piece of chalk has moved across in front of me . |
| 23 | This is a question that the board has struggled with for two years . |
| 24 | On the move : has transferred from to the personnel department . |
| 25 | Not very many sub-conversions have yet been done as I understand it and my source of information about the levels of conversion is solely from Mrs , called on behalf of the defendants and her real source of information is simply one family whom she has talked to on the telephone about it , who find the levels conversion of their Nissan Serena perfectly satisfactory for their twenty year old daughter . |
| 26 | More interestingly , the company is also to begin casting its nets in other waters when it introduces a new range of productivity tools under the name of Deskworks , in June , something it has talked about for ages . |
| 27 | Whether or not there is a bust this year , in the long term China 's prospects are excellent , which could prove the best economic news the world has had for at least a century , and the best news China 's people have ever had . |
| 28 | There is now a glimmer of hope … this is the first reasonable amount of water a pond in Blewberry has had for at least two years . |
| 29 | According to a game survey recently performed by a group at the Istituto di Zoologia of the University of Rome , Italy 's population of fully wild , feral dogs has exploded to above 80 000 and is fuelled by a pool of perhaps ten times as many stray and free-ranging animals . |
| 30 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |