Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | BP fired the first salvo yesterday and chairman Robert Horton has arranged to see Chancellor Norman Lamont to try to assess the prospects for change . |
| 2 | NICOSIA ( Reuter ) — The Japanese firm , Mitsui , has undertaken to pay Iran almost $1bn ( £625m ) in compensation for ending its role in a joint petrochemical complex , Iran 's Irna news agency said . |
| 3 | Although most upset the family has come to realise Mary has no place in the real world nor their own . |
| 4 | I think the time has come to ask Meredith Putt a few questions . ’ |
| 5 | She has come to know God as he is , she is able to trust him , and her whole life reflects the difference . |
| 6 | The Johnson camp has come to prefer Charles Taylor , the third self-proclaimed president and a man Mr Johnson was once keen to shoot . |
| 7 | It is an electrolytic deposit technique , and the process has come to supersede Sheffield plating . |
| 8 | He might even allow himself a wry laugh when he considers how the West has come to excoriate Ceausescu today , after all those years when they applauded his ‘ daring ’ dissent from Warsaw Pact orthodoxy , and acting as a thorn in the Kremlin 's body politic . |
| 9 | Line B drives us back to read line A again in the light of what line B has added to line A. |
| 10 | Under twenty years of military rule , its output has grown to make Brazil the world 's largest agricultural exporter after the United States . |
| 11 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 12 | South Africa has threatened to stop Namibia 's independence process after clashes with nationalist rebels . |
| 13 | The IAAF has threatened to counter-sue Reynolds after dismissing as ‘ worthless ’ an American court judgment awarding him £18 million damages because he was banned for alleged drug-taking . |
| 14 | The United States has threatened to ban EC companies from bidding for a range of government contracts from 22 March if the EC does not drop a three per cent pricing preference for domestic over foreign suppliers in public utility contracts . |
| 15 | Although the WBC , one of boxing 's four governing bodies , has threatened to make Lewis champion if Bowe 's first defence is not against him , there would be enormous pressure to keep the world title unified . |
| 16 | First , Iraq has threatened to attack Israel and Saudia Arabia with missiles and bombs if war breaks out in the Gulf ; the Iraqi News Agency said the warning had come from the country 's Air Force Commander . |
| 17 | As he scribbled , he said , ‘ By the way , Elinor , Paul Littlejohn has decided to leave STG , Bermuda . |
| 18 | Skinner , 31 , who began his career with Blaydon , has decided to leave Harlequins in May but intends to play a season for Blackheath before hanging up his boots . |
| 19 | So Robert Lasagna , a Saatchi representative in Italy , has decided to give Shevardnadze a satellite telephone to let him ‘ speak to the world ’ . |
| 20 | The Irish government has decided to acquire Castletown , Co Kildare , the country 's foremost Georgian house from the Castletown Foundation . |
| 21 | The Securities and Investments Board has decided to strengthen Imro after studying the SRO 's report on its regulation of two Maxwell companies , Bishopsgate Investment Management and London and Bishopsgate International Investment Management . |
| 22 | Team manager , Buckley 's Tudor Jones , has decided to entrust Flint 's bid to recapture the crown to youth and that means no places for Hall 's heavyweights . |
| 23 | I 'm terrified we might see Khan or Greenslade on a day when everyone has decided to follow Mother Walsh 's directions about placing the feet on the ground without damaging the old insect life . |
| 24 | Now that Toby Balding has decided to send Morley Street to Ireland for the race the 10-1 on offer from the sponsors is a most attractive price . |
| 25 | The firm has decided to drop Deloitte to avoid confusion among clients and to strengthen its identity with its parent firm , Coopers & Lybrand International . |
| 26 | THERE is never a good time to kiss £100,000 goodbye — but with Christmas round the corner , Colin McRae must be wondering what he has done to upset St Stephen . |
| 27 | In the UK , Oracle Corp 's , UK marketing director , John Spiers , has defected to rival Sybase Inc to take up the position of Northern European marketing director : he will report to Vincent de Gennaro , international marketing director . |
| 28 | RITCHIE TAYLOR , a junior All Blacks centre , has helped to transform Bridgwater and Albion this season from strugglers to winners of a promotion and cup double . |
| 29 | Together with internationalization , multilateralism has helped to shape Britain 's economic position in the post-war world . |
| 30 | Development of these services has helped to consolidate Manchester 's position as the only non-London airport in the UK to have direct airline service links with five continents , with longhaul flights to North America , Middle East , Far East , Africa and Australia , as well as regional services to Continental Europe . |