Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CARL PREAN has written to the English Table Tennis Association asking to be omitted from future ranking lists because of the way they are determined . |
| 2 | In this , the second annual report on our environmental activities , a range of examples are given to demonstrate how ICI has responded to the environmental challenge opposite each of our objectives . |
| 3 | This year Marks and Spencer has leapt to the top slot , Shell is now second and Glaxo third . |
| 4 | PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev has appealed to the Russian Republic not to go it alone on reform and warned that the Soviet Union stood on the brink of an economic and political abyss . |
| 5 | This island alone in Indonesia has clung to the old Hindu religion and culture . |
| 6 | Frankly , it is hard to see what Vidal has brought to the familiar myth , most recently remade as Young Guns . |
| 7 | Then he raised his wings and lifted himself up as Slorne had done to the very top of his cage . |
| 8 | Carlie had said to the social worker in charge of her case . |
| 9 | Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face . |
| 10 | Claudia held on to her temper with an effort ; it was bad enough that Dana had leapt to the right conclusion without her confirming it . |
| 11 | The European Council has endorsed the demands which we , France and the United States have made to the Libyan Government requiring them to abandon their support of terrorism and to hand over the alleged perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 12 | But Scotland has added to the disastrous image in the most masochistic ways . |
| 13 | In a challenging analysis Hans Medick has pointed to the increasing output of gin as indicating greater working-class expenditure on leisure . |
| 14 | He said Hall had written to the dead man 's mother expressing his sorrow . |
| 15 | The assembled guests well knew they were after bigger quarry than hare or stag and it the small town of Kirkmichael , Mar , on Tuesday 6 September , formally proclaimed James King of England , Scotland and , as tradition required , France , a poor return for all the help the Bourbons had given to the Jacobite cause . |
| 16 | Lepine had applied to the Polytechnique school of Engineering in 1986 , but was offered just a conditional place pending the completion of a chemistry course . |
| 17 | The supermarket chains , Sainsbury , Tesco and Safeway have applied to the high court to try to stop the opening in this country of an American style warehouse club . |
| 18 | Isabel Emmett has referred to the formal and informal mechanisms of selection as the ‘ social filter in the leisure field ’ , allowing different groups access to different facilities , more or less easily . |
| 19 | He felt it was time to ask about the stains on the clothes that Jim Lancaster had taken to the dry cleaner 's . |
| 20 | By this time the trial of Mrs Dyer had moved to the Old Bailey . |
| 21 | After the service , when everyone had gone to the reception at his father 's house , Duncan had returned to the fresh brown earth mound and prayed for his grandfather 's soul . |
| 22 | Hong Kong has objected to the proposed ban because its stockpile of 670 tonnes — the tusks of up to 75,000 elephants — is worth $134m , while at least 3,000 jobs in the colony depend on the ivory carving industry . |
| 23 | On Sept. 24 a Law on Defence , which President Boris Yeltsin had returned to the Supreme Soviet on Aug. 10 , was accepted with the inclusion of the President 's amendments . |
| 24 | Adam had spoken to the Danish king Swegen Estrithsson , Cnut 's nephew , and can not be dismissed out of hand , although nor can he be regarded as infallible . |
| 25 | On Dec. 4 , 1991 , Valverde had given to the parliamentary commission on industry a detailed exposition of Renfe 's role in the affair , which he claimed had been merely to execute plans made by the Transport Ministry and the Autonomous Community ( local council ) of Madrid . |
| 26 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 27 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 28 | I do n't believe that the Secretary of State has need to call it in and indeed Mr Curry has written to the local Member of Parliament saying his mind is still open but on the information he had in October he does not think that these that this application raises issues of more than local importance . |
| 29 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
| 30 | May I say how welcome is the strong support that Great Britain has given to the Baltic states ? |