Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 2 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 3 | Practice with ‘ sticks ’ ( miniature kites on the end of a I metre ( 39in ) dowel ) forms a good start for understanding both the figures and the jargon which has developed to describe the shapes . |
| 4 | A branch of mathematics called network analysis has developed to provide the answers to the type of problem just cited , and network analysis algorithms are incorporated into comprehensive Geographical Information Systems as well as being available for stand-alone PCs . |
| 5 | OK , so it eventually becomes an obsession , and someone has to kill to get the key , but it keeps the audience alert , particularly when there 's a late night knock at the door . |
| 6 | Hereford MP Colin Shepherd has lobbied to keep the base open . |
| 7 | Emma has arranged to spend the weekend with a cousin , so there 's no possibility of being disturbed . |
| 8 | In Piata Universitatii , in central Bucharest , under the looming tower of the Intercontinental Hotel and the glaring neon of a Castrol sign , a crowd has gathered to mark the anniversary and hear political speakers . |
| 9 | For example , if another company in the group has provided guarantees in respect of dividends or redemption , or has undertaken to purchase the shares , the issue will constitute a liability of the group and should be reported as such . |
| 10 | Peter White of Midland Bank was less convinced , complaining of the failure of some large firms to adhere to a strict off-limits policy , and described an even worse practice of advancing a candidate who has undertaken to engage the headhunter involved at a later date if he or she lands the job . |
| 11 | We did not achieve that , but the Regional Council has undertaken to carry the full costs itself . |
| 12 | The Forestry Commission has undertaken to bear the report 's findings in mind when embarking on future tree-planting programmes . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Bean has undertaken to supply the horses , ’ Sam said . |
| 14 | The institutions are required to monitor their use of the access funds and the Secretary of State for Education and Science has undertaken to review the operation of the funds in due course . |
| 15 | A different possible interpretation of a contract is that , not the buyer , but the seller has undertaken to accept the risk that the goods might not exist , i.e. he has undertaken as part of the contract that the goods do in fact exist . |
| 16 | The developer of the site , Ideal Homes Holdings , has undertaken to reserve the site and provide it free of charge to the school trustees in addition to a one-off payment of up to £150,000 . |
| 17 | The item must be of sufficient quality to be displayed in a public collection whether national , local authority or university , and the owner has to agree to keep the object in the UK , preserve it and allow reasonable public access to it . |
| 18 | A local group has formed to oppose the mining and has held its first public meeting . |
| 19 | B has to try to find the keys and get them out of the circle before being hit by A. If the Keeper hits B s/he wins . |
| 20 | We have to have recourse to what Stenning calls ‘ abnormal ’ contexts , where the analyst reads the text and then has to try to provide the characteristics of the context in which the text might have occurred . |
| 21 | Rolle has to try to meet the linguistic challenge which faces any mystical writer : to define and point towards the nature of an experience which is in essence ineffable . |
| 22 | Please remember that the programme has to try to meet the expectations of eight different Regions/Nations , the Overseas Groups , Sector interests eg. Fund-Raising , Communications , not to mention the visitors themselves . |
| 23 | Somehow she has to try to extract the information she wants from the information she gets . |
| 24 | Kurt Forster , for the last eight years Director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities at Santa Monica , has resigned to accept the Chair in the History of Art and Architecture at Zurich 's Federal Polytechnic . |
| 25 | Dungannon District Council has voted to scrap the Post Office addressing system which insists letters must include house numbers and road names . |
| 26 | Unhappy about EC proposals on waste transport , the European Parliament has voted to stall the Commission 's draft legislation , with the aim of pressing Brussels into framing even tougher controls . |
| 27 | Responding to growing public pressure , the Ukrainian parliament has voted to close the Chernobyl nuclear reactor , the site of the world 's worst nuclear accident in 1986 , two years ahead of schedule . |
| 28 | Leeds polytechnic has voted to change the method by which it elects its President . |
| 29 | During the same period , it has voted to change the Russian constitution — itself new — on roughly 50 occasions . |
| 30 | The Church of England Synod has voted to approve the ordination of women priests . |