Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 In a moment I will produce the recipe — and please , will readers do their best to suspend disbelief until they have tried it ? — but one of the main points about this recipe is that it taught me ( for after all , one does not buy lobsters all that often ) that anisette is , improbably but incontrovertibly , a quite magical ingredient in fish dishes and sauces .
2 Employers also try to discourage the mobility of their highly skilled labour because they wish to retrieve the investment made in training over the long term , and they certainly would not want competing firms to poach labour that they have trained .
3 17.33 With regard to spelling , the aim should be that by the end of compulsory schooling pupils should be able to spell confidently most of the words they are likely to need to use frequently in their writing ; to recognise those aspects of English spelling that are systematic ; to make a sensible attempt to spell words that they have not seen before ; to check their work for misspellings and to use a dictionary appropriately .
4 Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out .
5 ‘ It is not a function of a district council , which York is , to provide accommodation so they have an eviction policy for gypsies .
6 Radio and TV waves are public goods in that the reception of signals is non-rivalrous and it is difficult to exclude consumers once they have reception equipment .
7 How to claim help because you have a low income
8 The women used to wear sari and I have never seen a lately with anything but sari , but now they have started wearing the Punjabi dress .
9 Arranging to receive goods before they have been stolen does not amount to handling : Park ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 164 ( CA ) , because " guilty knowledge must exist at the time when the offence is committed " .
10 It does not have to re-analyse characters once they have been identified , which helps to speed up the processing of long documents .
11 There are some key terms that are sure to cause trouble because they have different meanings in International Relations and in philosophy .
12 Managers have agreed to 860 posts being created to cover computerisation but they have not acceded to further staffing demands .
13 If you should decide to accept a place on a course , do not rush out to buy textbooks until you have finished reading this book , and guidance on returning to learning in particular .
14 Political and economic considerations regarding England seem to be an important part of Amanda 's critique , but surely our heritage , culture and lifestyle should give every English person cause for some degree of contentment , and to praise God that we have what we have .
15 It is much easier for us to disobey God when we have developed a calloused conscience , or have paralysed our desires for God .
16 As well as setting up a register the Act will eventually make it illegal for people to handle food until they have taken a basic food hygiene certificate .
17 Conditions are then idyllic for novices and intermediates — or learning to sail dinghies if you have n't tried that before .
18 Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him .
19 Increasingly , we feel the main objective should be to give support where we have a significant local presence — a refinery or chemicals plant , for example .
20 To give hope when you have none yourself .
21 It is easy , too , to waste money unless you have either a musician or a music expert in the agency team .
22 On the other hand there are a few techniques , frequently used in constructing proofs , to which it is perhaps useful to draw attention as they have been known to give students the occasional difficulty .
23 She relates that Lena will even take the trouble to teach customers how to use machines that they have bought elsewhere and go out of her way to make deliveries , both free of charge .
24 My hon. Friend has been a staunch ally in trying to resolve difficulties as they have arisen for my constituents .
25 ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives .
26 Well we 're already under pressure to give names , and we are reluctant to give pressure , cos n reluctant to give names because we have n't got them , at this stage , but we need , but at some stage we need to iden as we , as part of the process , this need , there 's a need at least to identify one home within the east of the county .
27 There have been offers from cosmetics and hair product firms for me to do advertising but I have turned them down .
28 You could use it er , in the reverse of the way that the theory suggests , which you can actually leave it on the last diary page where you have something on your to do list that you have n't completed .
29 But it is hard to persuade voters that you have managerial skills if you have been out of office for 11 years .
30 At some point in its development it has to create more organized political groups , or convert or capture existing political organizations , which are able to engage directly in a struggle for power and have the capacity to use power when they have gained it in order to reconstruct society .
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