Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan has taught much to the Western business world . |
| 2 | The School has responded positively to the technological demands of the new Standard Grade courses and has installed in the Department ten ‘ Applemac ’ computers adding to the not inconsiderable quantity of equipment already there . |
| 3 | The rum market in Venezuela is undergoing a difficult period of transition , but Pampero 's performance has responded well to the relaunch . |
| 4 | The Scottish economy has responded vigorously to the policies we have introduced to liberate enterprise , and many more people are now saving , investing and owning their homes . |
| 5 | Each step command is issued only when the motor has responded satisfactorily to the previous command and so there is no possibility of the motor losing synchronism . |
| 6 | The eye has to jump ahead to the source marker , or register it peripherally , and link it correctly to the preceding text . |
| 7 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 8 | Two points away from winning the league flag , Christmas has come early to the Perth fans ; ensconced in a new all-seater stadium , they are visiting an Ayr team under Ally McLeod 's managerial direction . |
| 9 | However , the club has come close to the brink , surviving winding up orders . |
| 10 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 11 | The gradual assimilation of minority nationalities , moreover , has operated less to the advantage of the Russian population as such than to the advantage of the larger nationalities in general , Russians included . |
| 12 | That section of the middle class which includes shopkeepers , foremen , and the small and self-employed businessmen — the petit bourgeois — has turned strongly to the party since she became leader . |
| 13 | The discussion above has related mainly to the services under the management of health authorities . |
| 14 | As the economic crisis has got worse , the attention the government has given to education has got less to the point where instead of opening schools they are closing some of them , because — so they say — they ca n't pay the teachers ' salaries . |
| 15 | And to say that they have ‘ been the eyes and ears of Delhi ’ is insulting to a community that has contributed enormously to the progress and fostering of secular values among Kashmiri people . |
| 16 | Recently television has contributed dramatically to the rejuvenation of particular sports , most notably darts and snooker . |
| 17 | By studying one thinker who has contributed much to the development of a certain type of political thought we might , as a result , avoid the problem of simply re-creating mythologies . |
| 18 | It is often argued that television has contributed much to the trivialization of politics in general and to the nomination process in particular . |
| 19 | THIS public fear has contributed much to the infiltration of fake hijras into the community of true eunuchs . |
| 20 | You say that he has contributed materially to the progress of your investigation . |
| 21 | Enjoying his retirement years in the sub-tropical warmth of south east Queensland , Australia , far from his English roots , is a man who has contributed greatly to the success of rotary wing development in Britain . |
| 22 | US foreign aid , the authors say with some irony , has contributed greatly to the ‘ modernization of Third World poverty ’ . |
| 23 | Their impact on the industry has contributed greatly to the regard in which the Department of Hospitality Management is held . |
| 24 | Finally , the Bail Act has signally failed to avert an explosion in the remand population , which in turn has contributed substantially to the prison numbers crisis . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the model has inspired much detailed historical research — indeed it has contributed substantially to the progress of economic and social history — and in the past few decades , partly as a result of the publication of previously inaccessible manuscripts of Marx , there have been some valuable contributions to Marxist scholarship addressed to the kinds of problem that I have indicated , concerning modes of production , tribal ( that is , primitive communal ) societies , historical sequences , and the relation of political power to forms of society . |
| 26 | He joined the Gwili Railway shortly after I did and on the very same day as my cousin Paul Lucas , but since then Roger has contributed more to the railway than either of us . |
| 27 | The situation in Powys reflects that in Wales as a whole and has contributed especially to the threat to upland broadleaved woodlands but also to the losses of heather moor , rough grassland and to the degradation of species-rich pastures . |
| 28 | With regard to traditional conflicts of interest , which are also liable to be efficiency-reducing , there is little reason to think that the separation of ownership and control has contributed significantly to the scope for management self-dealing , but it does pose problems for the effectiveness of the mechanisms that regulate it , the design of which is premised on shareholder involvement . |
| 29 | In fact the sequence of events was much more complex than that , although , as discussed earlier , many former patients were discharged to inadequate accommodation without aftercare , and progressive reduction of psychiatric beds over the past thirty years has contributed significantly to the problem . |
| 30 | My predecessors and I have enjoyed a close and fruitful working relationship with local authorities in Wales over many years and I believe that that has contributed significantly to the efficient and effective conduct of business between central and local government which is the key to the debate . |