Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that the National Executive Committee of the ruling party allows Nyerere total control of the party and therefore of government policy ; in fact there have always been a number of important policy issues which Nyerere has had to argue through the NEC and which he has not always won . |
| 2 | T. E. Yates has tried to maintain in The Spirit and the Kingdom that this prophecy was fulfilled in the ministry of Jesus , for he . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While in the United States the unfolding tale of corruption and mismanagement at the EPA has tended to focus on the usual mainstays of White House interference and ‘ sweet-heart ’ deals with past industrial employers , little attention has been paid to the Lysenkoist assaults of the Reagan administration on the EPA 's scientific integrity . |
| 5 | Reynaldo has continued to campaign for the rights of the Mapuche Indians and indigenous people elsewhere . |
| 6 | With the changed context of controversy , Gillray had turned to deal with an argumentative challenge from the left . |
| 7 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
| 8 | At the same time as the Convent negotiations were taking place , the Governors were also advertising for a new headmaster , for Mr. Scott had decided to retire at the end of the Easter Term in 1979 . |
| 9 | Tommy Gilmour , Clinton 's manager , said last night : ‘ Pat had tried to go through the pain barrier and keep his injury from me but I have taken the decision to withdraw him after consultation with an orthopaedic surgeon . ’ |
| 10 | The PLO had refused to comply with the demands of the Lebanese government to disarm its forces based in southern Lebanon , claiming that they constituted an army and not a militia [ ibid . ] . |
| 11 | The term of the outgoing president , Khristos Sartzetakis , had expired on March 30 , but Karamanlis had refused to stand as the candidate of New Democracy earlier in the year . |
| 12 | There had been little dispute about anything else Thorfinn had wanted to do since the day he was told of the fighting in Lothian . |
| 13 | Gagarin had had to search into the past for a word which perhaps he had heard from his granny ! |
| 14 | ‘ A big club like Arsenal have got to go for every major honour , our fans expect it . |
| 15 | The Louvre has agreed to extend to the Metropolitan a long-term loan of two glazed-brick murals depicting archers , from a sixth-century Achaemenid palace at Susa . |
| 16 | MOTORSPORT : Three-times Formula One world champion Nelson Piquet of Brazil has signed to race in a Buick-powered Lola in this year 's Indianapolis 500 race on May 24 . |
| 17 | Spurred originally by demands from the Navy ( for special performance requirements , not well catered for by the US suppliers ) and by internal security needs for faster information , Brazil had determined to go for a policy of self-sufficiency in the underlying technologies . |
| 18 | Rumours circulating in the UK last week , suggesting that Nirvana had planned to play with an extra guitarist at Reading , were hotly denied by a spokesman for the band . |
| 19 | This crisis was not so much averted as won by the progressives , but only after Pope Paul had taken a hand and , on the issues that Suenens had wished to put to the vote , the progressives won a clear majority on 30 October . |
| 20 | The CDU had wanted to change to a system of simple majority votes in constituencies , a move which would prevent the National Democrats winning seats but which would also destroy the FDP . |
| 21 | England had failed to qualify for the finals , Scotland had defeated Wales in an emotional match at Liverpool 's Anfield Stadium and Ally McLeod , a supremely patriotic manager given to hyperbole and heart-wrenching nationalism had amassed one of the finest footballing sides for years . |
| 22 | Because England had failed to qualify for the finals , the entire weight of the British media inevitably fell on Willie Johnson 's head . |
| 23 | To the massed spectators in the stands , flung in an instant from joyous acclaim of a Royal winner to horrified , dumbfounded silence , Devon Loch had seemed to leap at an imaginary obstacle before slithering to the ground and skidding along to a halt , the momentum throwing Francis up on to the horse 's neck . |
| 24 | Biologists who have come after Darwin have tended to focus upon the role of competition in driving evolution . |
| 25 | Taiwan and Korea have had to cope with a decline in competitiveness like the one Japan experienced as the yen soared against the dollar during the 1980s . |
| 26 | After spending many years in America , novelist Monica Dickens has returned to live in the English countryside . |
| 27 | In the 15th century there is a dearth of Florentine musical examples of the laude , and Wilson has had to resort to a discussion of the music found in lauda sources from the Veneto . |
| 28 | In recent years the DST has had to cope with a conflicting number of loyalties amongst those political refugees France has allowed to enter its country , especially from the Middle East . |
| 29 | Billie had started to look through the English-speaking magazines on the rack . |
| 30 | Tanjug reported that most of the approximately 600,000 Serbs in Croatia had failed to participate in the elections . |