Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 2 | It seems that he died after drinking brandy which had been laced with strychnine and we have to try to discover how the poison got into the brandy . ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless , there must be some feature which distinguishes the production of knowledge from that of political slogans , for example ; and we have to try to understand how the real object is transformed into the thought object . |
| 4 | But in the century since we have come to understand better the structure of natural language , and have made some conceptual progress in the philosophy of language . |
| 5 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 6 | All but two of the closed institutions in Rhode Island have applied to join either the FDIC 's scheme or a parallel one run by the National Credit Union Administration . |
| 7 | Disney have applied to produce both the opening and closing ceremonies of the tournament . |
| 8 | We and others have therefore introduced a sort of helicopter scanning of technological progress throughout the world from which we have sought to see where the enabling inventions may lie . |
| 9 | Over the past chapters , I have sought to show how the combination of broken homes , disturbed domestic backgrounds and lack of a full understanding of the needs and implications of formal education create a family environment unsuited to the requirements of black youth in British education . |
| 10 | But he is confident that some announcements will be made by year-end on those who have decided to take up the offer . |
| 11 | B U choose the Merry Widow because their last show White Horse was so successful the B U Musical Society have decided to take on the ambitious task of tackling the Merry Widow for their next production . |
| 12 | None of their three sons Roy , Robert and Clive have decided to carry on the family tradition . |
| 13 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 14 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 15 | As a corollary , AI-workers have tended to play down the importance of neurophysiological knowledge about the brain . |
| 16 | Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches . |
| 17 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 18 | Electric fish have , at least twice independently , hit upon this ingenious method of navigation , but they have had to pay a price : they have had to give up the normal , highly efficient , fish method of swimming , throwing the whole body into serpentine waves . |
| 19 | I have no doubt that those same consumers , when exercising their choice about what to buy , will want to be absolutely sure that products imported to the United Kingdom have had to undergo precisely the same levels of checks and monitoring as products exported from the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside . |
| 21 | To avoid creating a new problem I have had to shorten slightly the northward move of the Clerk Street stop . |
| 22 | For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation . |
| 23 | So far , however , the crofters in the Western Isles have preferred to purchase only the house sites and pass on their rights to their families , although in other areas where the land is better there has been greater interest in purchasing whole crofts . |
| 24 | hames Water have promised to buy up the affected land and properties at their current value and are keeping that offer open until plans are finalised . |
| 25 | In return for the aid , the Bulgarian authorities have agreed to close down the plant 's four 440-megawatt pressurized water reactors , which lack containment facilities to enclose them in case of an accident , as soon as financially possible , perhaps by 1998 . |
| 26 | Contractors Bernhards Rugby Sports Services have agreed to carry out the repairs at no extra cost to the local authority , said a council spokesman . |
| 27 | Sun — which admits its latest strategy is similar to the route trodden by MIPS Computer Systems Inc that now has half a dozen semiconductor companies selling its R series RISC designs — says it is just awaiting clearance to announce the names of several firms that have agreed to take on the Sparc . |
| 28 | Forty-one Japanese and US companies operating in Thailand have agreed to reduce drastically the amount of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) they use . |
| 29 | There 's nothing wrong with the music , but the record industry have got to sort out the singles market before sales fall further . ’ |
| 30 | Fletcher said : ‘ If we want England sides to perform better overseas then we have got to sort out the itineraries . |