Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Japan has taught much to the Western business world .
2 I recall the speech to which the hon. Gentleman referred and I know that he has referred before to a case similar to that which he described today .
3 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 .
4 The rum market in Venezuela is undergoing a difficult period of transition , but Pampero 's performance has responded well to the relaunch .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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 Move over Wilf NOT a lot of people might know this , but a Newcastle United player has come closer to an Olympic medal than poor old wobbling Wilf O'Reilly .
9 ( He has come closest to an antipathetic character as the ex-con in Straight Time , and as a crook in Family Business , two of his biggest commercial failures . )
10 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 .
11 However , the club has come close to the brink , surviving winding up orders .
12 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 .
13 Brandmakers , whose ambitions were profiled here last week , has grown rapidly to a turnover of about £1.7m .
14 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 .
15 At the end of this time the rotor has moved forward to a position where the motor is producing negative torque .
16 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 .
17 The discussion above has related mainly to the services under the management of health authorities .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Recently television has contributed dramatically to the rejuvenation of particular sports , most notably darts and snooker .
21 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 .
22 It is often argued that television has contributed much to the trivialization of politics in general and to the nomination process in particular .
23 THIS public fear has contributed much to the infiltration of fake hijras into the community of true eunuchs .
24 You say that he has contributed materially to the progress of your investigation .
25 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 .
26 US foreign aid , the authors say with some irony , has contributed greatly to the ‘ modernization of Third World poverty ’ .
27 Their impact on the industry has contributed greatly to the regard in which the Department of Hospitality Management is held .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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