Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although rainfall has now returned to normal , Georgia 's leaders remain keenly conscious that water is a scarce commodity , to be carefully managed . |
| 2 | P. , B. and D. are together with one family , T. and A. were initially together although A. has since had to be moved to a small children 's home , and K. is with a third family . |
| 3 | ( Interestingly , in the car industry , although Ford has never belonged to an association in Britain nevertheless in Germany it is an active member of the metalworking employers ' association and follows the terms of its negotiated agreements . ) |
| 4 | Erm , I do n't think we 've got any at the moment cos mum 's just gone to the shops What do you want for tea Lisa ? |
| 5 | But I wonder if Harry has ever listened to Schumann ? she thought . |
| 6 | If Oliver had not come to France with her the playing might have gone further . |
| 7 | surely would n't have gone through it if Bertha had n't appealed to him . |
| 8 | If Eliot had only managed to be funnier , some had come to feel , he would also have been more accurate . |
| 9 | But last night beleaguered United boss Alex Ferguson , under pressure from the Old Trafford board to seal a big-name transfer before his side 's next game against Oldham a week tomorrow , whose bid for Sheffield Wednesday striker David Hirst was rejected earlier this week , insisted an agreement was impossible because Edwards had not spoken to EITHER of them . |
| 10 | If because risk had not passed to the buyer , the seller has to bear the loss , this does not necessarily excuse him from performing the contract . |
| 11 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 12 | I 'm pleased we 've gone away probably , you know , we 've made a few friends because everbody 's just said to me how well we 've played and you know , it was a great game and all that kind of stuff , so that pleases me , I just do n't like losing . |
| 13 | Before Sartre had even replied to Levi-Strauss criticisms , Althusser had published for Marx ( 1965 ) , a work which , together with the later volume Reading Capital ( 1968 ) , far from defending Sartre 's Marxism from the structuralist challenge , completed the move against it , and offered a new interpretation of Marxism from which humanist existentialism and Hegelianism had been resolutely purged , with Sartre 's voluntarism replaced by a more mediated form of economism . |
| 14 | These provisions would give the seller a kind of property right over , and thereby give the seller entitlement to , all the proceeds of the sub-sales of unmixed goods ( except those sub-sales made after title has already passed to the buyer ) . |
| 15 | She closed the living-room door before answering , even though Dickie had long gone to bed . |
| 16 | She tried to tell Maud and Enid , but they had had enough of frog stories , particularly as Mildred had actually admitted to them , at the time , that the story she had told Sybil was not true . |
| 17 | This type of maze allowed David Olton in Baltimore and John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel ( both expatriate Americans , then working at University College , London , though Nadel has since returned to the US , to Tucson , Arizona ) to distinguish between working and reference memory cues in learning the task . |