Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Thus for a proper appreciation of the distinction between " slow " and " fast " you have to wait for electromagnetic waves to be introduced , discussed , and digested .
2 We pray especially for those that You have placed in close proximity to us ; our relatives ; our neighbours ; those we meet day by day .
3 It turns out that we have to appeal in any case to something like a rational collective agency , directed towards avoiding recognized and agreed evils , and that already provides an adequate explanation — a fairly traditional one — of the incest prohibition .
4 Initial ‘ gut ’ reactions have varied from righteous indignation to cynical amusement , from vocal anger to silent embarrassment .
5 After an uncertain start they have responded in different ways to demands for a more active vocal part for the congregation .
6 Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan has launched an appeal for a centre to rescue orphaned and injured Mediterranean monk seals , whose numbers have collapsed in recent years to the point where they are , according to the Prince , " one of the most forgotten creatures on earth " .
7 I have written at great length to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary .
8 And the designers have built in reassuring similarities to the products you know and love , such as the ‘ Lotus Classic ’ menu option in Lotus for Windows , which lets you go on using the familiar ‘ / ’ method to bring up menus , until you get used to the state-of-the-art stuff .
9 Recently ethnolinguists , deriving their inspiration in England from the work of J. R. Firth and his disciples at SOAS ( The School of Oriental and African Studies ) , have also challenged ‘ universalism ’ and have argued for more attention to ‘ language-specific ’ descriptions before more general claims about language can be made , Fought , for instance , writing of attempts to analyse traditional Mexican languages , argues :
10 In Scotland 100,000 have applied for free tickets to a Hogmanay party in George Square , Glasgow , which will also celebrate the city 's year as Cultural Capital of Europe .
11 Since that was written our interest rates have risen in real terms to an all-time peak .
12 In South America , the mahoganies , Swietenia spp. , were much sought after , so that today , they have suffered through genetic erosion to such an extent that often they are not worth exploiting , only those of poor form having been left in the forests to set seed .
13 Perhaps the most compelling evidence of all comes from studies of people who have moved from one country to another — Japanese who have emigrated to California , for instance — and adopted Western diets .
14 In recent years most Latin American countries have moved from military dictatorships to democracy .
15 I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets .
16 Gas export earnings however have grown with increasing exports to Japan and South Korea though oil remains the main export earner at some 60% of export revenues .
17 This restructuring has seen a redistribution of talents as well as a reduction in numbers and many people have transferred from central functions to the regions .
18 In the past few days ( see News page 1 ) we have had to contradictory testaments to the way psychiatric services are surviving in a post-Griffiths ' world .
19 Reductions in bus passenger and car rear seat passenger casualties have contributed in large degree to this decrease .
20 In doing so we also try to relate some of the magnitudes we have encountered for individual NBFIs to the flow of funds matrix in Table 2.1 .
21 Will he tell the House just how much effort he and his colleagues in the Department have devoted in recent years to bringing that message home to employers ?
22 Most series have focused on surgical approaches to complications such as stricture and fistula formation .
23 These have ranged from serious assaults to the throwing of objects ( including eggs ) , attempts to relieve the tedium of a pornography trial by releasing nitrous oxide or ‘ laughing gas ’ into the court of Melford Stevenson J. and demonstrations to promote the cause of the Welsh language .
24 Victims singled out for assassination by the IRA have ranged from senior managers to builder 's labourers .
25 But unless she is lucky she will also meet others who have opted for different solutions to the problem of how to be a teacher .
26 A number of researchers have concentrated upon public relations to ceremonial occasions ( Bocock , 1974 ; Dayan and Katz , 1985 ; Shils and Young , 1975 ) .
27 I have driven along that road to Scotland many times and I know that beyond my hon. Friend 's constituency it is not so good .
28 Altogether sixty three Halton Apprentices have gone from junior technician to High rank .
29 In the twentieth century , large numbers of people have migrated from poor countries to richer countries in search of work , from Europe to the Americas , from black to white-ruled Southern Africa , from Mexico and Central America and the Caribbean to North America , from the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent to Britain and from southern to northern Europe .
30 These concerns have led to two approaches to calming housing areas in West Germany , those that rely solely on the law to reduce speeds and those that , additionally , incorporate redesign of the street .
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