Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hereford MP Colin Shepherd has lobbied to keep the base open . |
| 4 | Emma has arranged to spend the weekend with a cousin , so there 's no possibility of being disturbed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We did not achieve that , but the Regional Council has undertaken to carry the full costs itself . |
| 9 | The Forestry Commission has undertaken to bear the report 's findings in mind when embarking on future tree-planting programmes . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Bean has undertaken to supply the horses , ’ Sam said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A local group has formed to oppose the mining and has held its first public meeting . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dungannon District Council has voted to scrap the Post Office addressing system which insists letters must include house numbers and road names . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Leeds polytechnic has voted to change the method by which it elects its President . |
| 20 | During the same period , it has voted to change the Russian constitution — itself new — on roughly 50 occasions . |
| 21 | The Church of England Synod has voted to approve the ordination of women priests . |
| 22 | * Meanwhile , the US Senate has voted to ban the use of large drift nets in US waters up to 200 miles offshore , as well as their use by US fishermen in international waters |
| 23 | Sometimes the government has wished to avoid the politically damaging disruption of vital public services ; for example , Hannah , describes how , in the 1960 wage negotiations at the Central Electricity Generating Board , the settlement was made ‘ after management consultation with the Ministry had indicated that they should settle , as the Cabinet were not willing to force matters to a strike ’ ( 1982 : 223 ) . |
| 24 | In his eagerness to depict the cloudy psychology of an adolescent , Motion has forgotten to give the boy a personality . |
| 25 | But he says : ‘ He has lost touch with something wonderful — he has forgotten to let the child within him take flight . |
| 26 | While Munro baggers have been marking the centenary of Sir Hugh 's tables , a ghost has come to trouble the celebrations — the hovering spectre of Foinavon . |
| 27 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 28 | As our awareness of ‘ the environment ’ has gown , so has the meaning given to the term expanded until it has come to signify the whole of the non-cultural world . |
| 29 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 30 | You know something 's going on , we have a little surprise set up for you , and I think the time has come to let the cat out of the bag . |