Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 In summary , the Zeebrugge tragedy has reminded the haulier that operations across the Channel can pose quite complicated legal problems concerning matters of compensation for loss of life , injury and damage to property .
2 Hilton says that the possibility of reformation thus open to man 's free choice has two aspects : first , reformation in faith which is based on the process of recognition and destruction of the image of sin which has occupied the greater part of Scale 1 ; and second , reformation in feeling which involves a development possible for some who can progress further to an inner freedom and joy which such discipline enables .
3 During the Eighties , it has been the Thatcher-Reagan model which has enjoyed the higher global vogue .
4 It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car .
5 Here the great house is not crumbling , as in Palladian , but has suffered the worse humiliation of being perverted into a preparatory school for boys : it is divided by baize doors and encircled by cinder paths .
6 John Baillie has made the further point that , in his detailed criticism of cyclical views of time , St Augustine was anxious to defend the doctrine of creation and particularly its corollary that ‘ through the creative power of God the course of events is characterized by the emergence of genuine novelty . ’
7 The dale is dominated at its lower end by two scars , Great Coum and Combe Scar , both carved out by the passing glaciers , while the sweeping fells of Barbondale mark the point at which the Dent fault has thrust the older Silurian gritstones thousands of feet above their original bed .
8 Both factors appear to have been operating ; Chapter Four has shown the greater volume of major services ( such as home help and day centres ) being used by sample members in Newham .
9 Long , expanded drills should not be given until the student has mastered the shorter , minimal structures , because the expanded drills are based on the minimal ones .
10 The fall in record sales during the 1980s has damaged the newer sector of the industry more than the major companies .
11 Who has played the better rugby ?
12 This analysis has recognised the wider context within which expenditure decisions have to be made and the need to take account of the responses of households and firms .
13 The Home Secretary has introduced the tougher regime after promising a crackdown at this year 's Conmservative Party conference .
14 He has found the thicker yarn ends are best doubled up or used treble to make blankets on the chunky machine .
15 Once acid has entered the lower esophagus peristaltic waves initiated within the body of the oesophagus sweep the bolus away into the stomach , but may still leave a juxtamucosal acidic environment in the lower oesophagus .
16 This is so far from the truth that on the whole , for those really attending to education , the notion of innate given individuality has remained the stronger .
17 that most of the present range of home-school links was already to be found in local primary schools well before PNP , and that activity in this field since 1985 has involved the further development and dissemination of existing practice rather than the devising of innovative techniques .
18 The General Assembly has asked the richer countries to give one per cent of their annual budget to try and wipe out poverty in the third world .
19 It is also a subject which has troubled the taller batsman .
20 In one of his later articles , Professor Newell has commented : " Of these great changes ( in the physical environment ) no single set of factors has influenced the later history of life more than the continuous modifications of topographic relief and distribution of continents and ocean basins and the attendant climatic changes " .
21 In equity finance , the state has allowed the lower dependence of Japanese firms to continue by treating loan interest as tax deductible in contrast to dividends .
22 It is not schooling but a nasty little trick he has to get the better of me .
23 Like Gruber , his Vienna contemporary Kurt Schwertsik has rejected the sterner face of the serial and post-serial avant-garde in favour of a more accessible , tonal music .
24 Now that Sinclair has perfected the newer type of membrane system used on the QL it would be interesting to speculate on which of the add-on companies is going to be the first to offer replacements for this !
25 In his biography of John Wesley the by then very conservative Robert Southey warned : Perhaps the manner in which Methodism has familiarized the lower classes to the work of combining in associations , making rules for their own governance , raising funds , and communicating from one part of the kingdom to another , may be reckoned among the incidental evils which have arisen from it .
26 In this respect , MAFF has created an awkward precedent which has enriched the larger farmers in the LFAs at the expense of smaller farmers .
27 And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know .
28 When food got scarce , he 'd taken the better paid job of a Sweeper .
29 He probably found that Ma was good in bed , but hell as soon as her feet touched the floor and after all , even Walter and Ma must have had to spend the larger part of the day vertical , I bet he ached to crawl back to Hilda , but Ma had him neatly encircled .
30 Doctors hardly counted till after 1850 and no one could have foreseen the later social power of lawyers .
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