Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now all too clear that despite US occupation of Southern Korea the Russians have intended to impose a united front policy throughout the country … |
| 2 | Individual pastors have helped to found some of the numerous opposition groups while bishops have intervened to put an end to confrontations between the police and reformers . |
| 3 | Government ministers have intervened to stop a £7 million television and newspaper advertising campaign by the nuclear power industry . |
| 4 | Clever publicity , orchestrated confusion over the equipment involved and a gullible pop industry have conspired to create a wave of enthusiasm in some parts of the press and the music industry . |
| 5 | All these have conspired to produce a climate wherein the utmost care must be taken with our every comment or flight of humour . |
| 6 | The trade unions are a problematic force both in and on the uneasy edges of the system of power ; a variety of factors have conspired to produce an upsurge of competing participants and conflicting demands ; elected governments have frequently shown themselves to be weak and vacillating in the face of pressures and problems ; and certain democratic aspects of the British polity have heaped problems on to the capitalist economy in a way that has " crowded out " opportunities for growth . |
| 7 | Now that circumstances have conspired to make an immediate share issue an unattractive option , Dell Computer Corp is looking around for the best alternative to raise cash to finance its soaraway growth . |
| 8 | Since then tests have developed to cover a wide variety of abilities and people of all ages . |
| 9 | ‘ There are great expectations , pious hopes and myriad uncertainties which have coalesced to cause a frisson of excitement at the prospect of success , for success alone can be the only option that should be countenanced . ’ |
| 10 | A. human bone from Turkey buried in alkaline soil with scrub oak vegetation , showing extensive root marks that have coalesced to give an appearance of surface corrosion ; B. sheep bone from stream ( pH 5.4 ) in Wales showing the result of long term immersion in water , with breakdown of the surface structure of the bone and formation of large scale pitting ; C. bovid bone from Tanzania which was buried in the floor of a hyaena den and subjected to trampling and decay from urine and organic acids , destructuring the surface leaving large scale pits and occasional islands of unaltered surface bone ; D. horse bone from Sphagnum bog in Dartmoor ( pH 3.5 ) showing acid etching of the bone producing pitting following and enlarging original structures in the bone . |
| 11 | Environmental organisations from the south of Holland have joined to launch a campaign informing the major bulb-importing countries about the damage to the environment caused by the bulb-growing industry . |
| 12 | When you think how CCW and the WTB have collaborated to agree a set of Principles for Tourism in National Parks , we should try to remain hopeful that a similar joint approach can eventually be agreed for golf courses . |
| 13 | Although some of the participants develop hardware — Hampshire-based Neural Technologies Ltd and Gloucester-based Micro Circuit Engineering Ltd have collaborated to develop a Neural Instruction Set Processor — the project clubs will mostly concentrate on software development . |
| 14 | The British Psychological Society and Macmillan have collaborated to produce a series of books of ‘ Psychology for ... [ different professions ] ’ ; among the lucky recipients are doctors , nurses , occupational therapists , teachers and , even , hairdressers ! |
| 15 | Over the last few months SCOTVEC and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) have collaborated to produce a joint statement , the main feature of which is an agreement that SVQs and NVQs are compatible in their essential features and that there will be mutual recognition of these throughout the UK . |
| 16 | There 's nothing more frustrating than discovering halfway through a DIY project that you have forgotten to buy a simple yet vital piece of equipment . |
| 17 | Very good for those one off Happy Birthday ! messages when you have forgotten to get a card . |
| 18 | Party political factors are frequently to the fore ; indeed , ‘ many people … have claimed to perceive a resurgence of eighteenth-century jobbery ’ ( Hood , 1978 , p. 40 ) . |
| 19 | WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party . |
| 20 | ‘ My fellow Americans , on this day , with high hopes and brave hearts and massive numbers , the American people have voted to make a new beginning , ’ he told the crowd . |
| 21 | He told ecstatic supporters : ‘ The American people have voted to make a new beginning . |
| 22 | As most of us have to work to earn a living , the short winter days limit our riding considerably and leave us with the choice of riding before or after work in the dark or only at weekends , unless you are lucky enough to have access to an indoor school . |
| 23 | We have to try to imagine a complex future in which different groups of the elderly will have different experiences from those of the present and from one another . |
| 24 | The courts have to try to strike a balance between the two . |
| 25 | The local battalion have rung to give a few more details of the incident . |
| 26 | While British surfing in recent years has developed into Day-Glo sporting fantasy , into pipeline boasts in city pubs , and into Newquay , Newquay , Newquay — booming as the ‘ surf capital ’ of Britain — these boys have looked to carve a different route . |
| 27 | From that time , they have continued to have an important role in the discounting of bills and as a result of this function have come to fill a pivotal role between the banks and the Bank of England in the determination of short term interest rates . |
| 28 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 29 | As life expectancy has increased and earlier retirement has become more widespread in the twentieth century , so the elderly have come to comprise an ever larger section of the poor . |
| 30 | Over the last twenty years , we have come to draw a distinction between the initial and continuing training of teachers . |