Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] to [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A sideways-scrolling platformer , your task is to patrol the sewers ( home of Doc Croc and company ) looking for your magazine , which the rancid reptile has inadvertently blown to bits .
2 If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land .
3 ‘ He has finally come to terms with being a United player . ’
4 But he has already said to employees and investors that the option he finds most attractive is keeping IBM intact as the biggest , and hopefully mightiest , firm in its industry .
5 They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) .
6 Miss Downey , who now lives in a Los Angeles suburb , has already talked to architects and plans to start building in the spring .
7 Social life can thus be viewed as a kind of theatre , an image which , of course , has always appealed to dramatists and poets .
8 This has repeatedly led to clashes over such questions as differentials , with ASLEF attempting to protect the elite status of its members .
9 Not only are there fewer titles published today but the process of decline has also led to monopolies within large cities .
10 But it has also led to assumptions which cause religion to be ignored , doubted and re-interpreted .
11 The challenge of the emerging technologies and new media has also led to publishers in Germany setting up a new working group on electronic publishing , the Verleger-Arbeitskreis Elektronisches Publizieren .
12 The independent sector has also contributed to developments in the area by setting up courses aimed at recruiting staff back to work .
13 This seems unlikely now to lead to the formal designation of the three types of universities ( 'R' for research-based , ‘ X ’ for mixed , and ‘ T ’ for teaching only ) that has been mooted , but it seems probable that in practice the university system will become more overtly stratified than before ; there has always been an element of covert stratification , although this has often related to departments rather than whole institutions .
14 Furthermore , the fact that Haines must report to the Jockey Club Stewards and has no authority to act unilaterally has inevitably led to suggestions that his is merely a token appointment .
15 The rise of complex , enterprise-wide client/server computing strategies has inevitably lead to demands for a single mechanism that will allow users to access information which resides on databases that may be distributed across a range of hardware platforms .
16 The rise of complex , enterprise-wide client-server computing strategies has inevitably lead to demands for a single mechanism that will enable users to access information which resides on databases that may be distributed across a range of hardware systems .
17 ‘ The dog has really taken to hurdles racing and will improve even more with experience he can only get better , ’ said racing manager Jimmy Nunn .
18 But the consortium has now written to GPs in Harwich giving a cast-iron guarantee that the town 's hospital and casualty services are safe .
19 Production supervisor Eddie Hotchkiss , who led Dad 's Army , has now returned to operations following the disbanding of his tank taskforce .
20 The use of filamentous bacteriophage has even led to strategies for building antibodies in bacteria and improving their binding affinities , and so by-passing immunisation 4,5 .
21 Moreover , as these demands have grown , so have the commercial pressures on companies to present their results and state of affairs in the best light , and this in turn has sometimes led to difficulties for auditors in standing up to directors who fix their remuneration and who , in practice , have the power to dismiss them .
22 This has sometimes led to disputes between religious and secular clergy , between orders and bishops .
23 The first , albeit tenative , steps towards forming a new Pacific-based economic union display an astute awareness of the way events are moving within Europe : movements with which Number 10 has yet to come to grips .
24 The locals field one former Test player , Madan Lal , and although Maninder Singh — last seen being swept to oblivion by Gooch in the Bombay World Cup semi-final — was practising at the England net yesterday , he has yet to come to terms with an attack of the yips .
25 He has yet to come to terms with the fact that a popular front of the mind or body means a Labour leader in Number 10 .
26 He has recently moved to Bohemians club ) in Dublin and is playing ok .
27 Pollitt ( 1990 ) argues that this approach was largely process-oriented but has recently shifted to outcomes ( surgical mortality rates , unplanned readmissions , prevalence of cross infections ) reflecting the demands of more powerful purchasing organisations and litigious consumers .
28 He has scented higher things — England ‘ B ’ v Pakistan and 12th man for the real McCoy against India , both in 1982 , his first full season — and if the aroma has never led to mouthfuls of fame ( due in part to a perceived shortage of confidence against high pace in his formative years ) he has been a staunch servant through thick and thin .
29 So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat
30 We 'd best go to t'stables , like he said . ’
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