Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , a number of distinguished judges have admitted to breaching the exclusionary rule and looking at Hansard in order to seek the intention of Parliament . |
| 2 | Investigators have resorted to paralysing the smooth muscle with spasmolytics to obtain artefact free images of the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 3 | In an effort to protect them from the disease , Namibian nature conservation officials have resorted to vaccinating the animals with darts fired from helicopters . |
| 4 | As coastal fisheries have become less profitable through overfishing , more fishermen have taken to killing small cetaceans to supplement their incomes . |
| 5 | Many farmers have adjusted to changing economic and social fortunes by taking a second job rather than leave their farms altogether . |
| 6 | ( Because this item is so scarce , several P-40 owners have resorted to using oil coolers and radiators intended for the Douglas DC-6 . |
| 7 | In judging the six keyboards under test all these possible options have been looked at to see how far the producers have gone to creating the ‘ ideal ’ replacement . |
| 8 | Lately , however , academics have taken to exposing the whole business as a farrago of fantasies and errors . |
| 9 | So far , most discounters have stuck to selling food , though Aldi does use one-off promotions of clothing to attract customers . |
| 10 | Legions of lost souls have taken to congregating at a popular local hostelry , the Throat and Razor , repeating those very words over and over again , till the tears run down their sunburned legs . |
| 11 | With rhino numbers in Zimbabwe at an all-time low due to poaching , rhino horn smugglers have taken to constructing fake horns in an effort to sustain their trade . |
| 12 | When not banging on about the sins of Vin Garbutt , the shaggy-haired Teesside warbler responsible for Little Innocents and other anti-abortion songs , certain feminist folkies have taken to conducting vigilante patrols through Folk Roots magazine in search of new sources of offence . |
| 13 | This ‘ twin-track strategy ’ , as government ministers have taken to calling it , has been a growing trend in the English penal system for as considerable time now , and is one major theme of the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 ( along with ‘ just deserts ’ ) . |
| 14 | Still others have taken to burrowing into wood or even into limestone , and fossils of these curious animals can be found lying in their home-made burrows ( see p. 21 ) . |
| 15 | Recent poaching incidents have led to stepping up of bailiff patrols and the setting up of a hotline by the River Annan 's Salmon Fishery Board . |
| 16 | Certainly Swedish Railways have taken to acting as toughly as any enterprise in the private sector . |
| 17 | Although the Taligent Inc environment is not due to ship until late 1994 or early 1995 , the Apple Computer Inc-IBM Corp joint venture faces heightened competition from Next Computer Inc now that its options have shrunk to making a success of its NextStep environment , and a hot wind from Cairo — Microsoft Corp 's Cairo , that is , is blowing down their neck . |
| 18 | Many of the living echinoids are protected by spines , some sharp and breaking off easily into the unwary foot , others stout and clublike ; a few groups have taken to burrowing into sediment , and the spines have become small and felt-like . |