Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amid the raging debate around the asylum law , which the CDU has manipulated to account for Germany 's plight , voters also pinned the source of their frustrations and fears on the presence of ‘ too many ’ foreigners in Germany . |
| 2 | Hydro-Quebec , the state-owned electricity company which is undertaking the James Bay project , has undertaken to comply with all environmental rulings made by the provincial or federal governments , and has invited the IWT to take part in environmental assessment . |
| 3 | And however much she loves her mother , the daughter who has undertaken to care for her in her old age is , in some instances , taking on one of the toughest and loneliest jobs on earth . |
| 4 | The same situation was prevalent in England over a decade ago , and while the new breed of English walls has blossomed to state of the art types such as Newcastle 's Berghaus Wall , Scotland 's walls remain poor relatives . |
| 5 | Eric Howard , manager of Diadora Division Three Bracknell Town , has resigned to move to Division Two Egham Town as general manager . |
| 6 | The Banking , Insurance and Finance Union has resolved to cooperate with a scheme for voluntary redundancies but says it could take industrial action if the job losses are made compulsory . |
| 7 | A profound historical amnesia has come to settle around the Teds whereby rock-and-roll outrages of the past , together with the magnified excitements that accompanied them , have been smuggled out of sight . |
| 8 | This ruling caste has come to rely on Italy 's huge public sector as a patronage machine for rewarding friends and supporters , a system that not only leads to corruption but also acts as a break on much needed free market reforms . |
| 9 | In spite of being an experimental novelist himself , Charles Newman has recently levelled a fierce attack on postmodernism which he argues ‘ has come to rely upon its own linguistic awareness of itself rather than plot or character development , to provide its own momentum ’ ( Newman 1985 : 98 ) . |
| 10 | In my view , the time has come to leave behind us the national humiliation and recriminations that have resulted from sterling 's suspension from the ERM . |
| 11 | The time has come to leave behind the national humiliation and recriminations that have resulted from sterling 's suspension from the ERM |
| 12 | And as patients have become more involved in identifying and negotiating areas for learning and behavioural change , the field of investigation has come to borrow from the theories and practice of counselling . |
| 13 | This is not what Claire has come to talk about . |
| 14 | Other countries have used systems of this kind with success and the Government have concluded that the time has come to ask for powers to adopt a system of early release on licence in this country . |
| 15 | If it is your mother-in-law who has come to live with you , even greater efforts will usually be required on both sides if there is to be peaceful co-existence , for this is always a challenging relationship ( there are not too many Ruths and Naomis around ) . |
| 16 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 17 | Inevitably , it has come to seem as if the victims are to blame . |
| 18 | it has come to seem like that only by accident . |
| 19 | This practice supports T. S. Kuhn 's ( 1963 ) argument that science textbooks ‘ do not describe the sorts of problems that the professional may be asked to solve and the variety of techniques available for their solution ’ but rather they ‘ exhibit concrete problem-solutions that the profession has come to accept as paradigms ’ which the student is expected to solve for himself ( or herself ) in the laboratory . |
| 20 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 21 | But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement . |
| 22 | On the 27 January 1991 Siad Barré fled the country , and the clans embarked on the intractable conflict which has come to look like a nation intent on destroying itself . |
| 23 | Life or death has come to depend on the proper functioning or malfunctioning of super-sensitive equipment over a couple of seconds . |
| 24 | Relatedly , for him , the evils of our times are indicated in the way that , allegedly , the polymorphous perverse has come to prevail over procreation , contraception over conception , and the anus over the vagina — ‘ as if the mark of a civilization dying should be a mountainous sense of excitement for the hole which presides over waste ’ ( p. 162 ) . |
| 25 | Whereas the good introduction impresses , the poor one depresses , conditioning the reader to anticipate inaccuracy , poor understanding , irrelevancy , muddled thinking-all the qualities , in fact , which the experienced examiner has come to associate with the weak or poor response . " |
| 26 | The time has come to think about putting something back into the soil . |
| 27 | One of the most productive nurseries in the world , the Yorkshire League , has become almost barren and the time has come to pluck from another , rich in blossoms — Shivaji Park , Bombay , where you can stand on the roof-top of the small pavilion and watch 15 games going on at the same time . |
| 28 | The books cover the three main areas of literature that he has come to favour since his debut into the world of writing after the 1939–45 War . |
| 29 | All else has come to feel like marking time . |
| 30 | For many who adopt a liberal and free-enterprise approach the explanation of our present problems is the increasing role which government has come to play in our economic life . |