Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As John of Climacus said : ‘ The man who has come to know himself is never fooled into reaching what is beyond him . |
| 2 | Or the shift from ‘ producer capitalism ’ to consumer capitalism , in which , for example , the moment of distribution has come to assert itself versus the moment of production . |
| 3 | Incidentally , he has decided to ally himself with the more stable elements in his life , and now styles himself Roger Foxcroft . |
| 4 | However , she has decided to give herself a year to change . |
| 5 | The rich North Italian industrial city of Turin has decided to put itself on the international map with a biennial art and antiques fair to be held at the Lingotto , the spectacular former Fiat car factory , from 27 February to 7 March . |
| 6 | but David has decided to involve himself now , in the last year of it , the last time of his year |
| 7 | The Office for Fine Arts in the Netherlands has decided to rid itself of most of the 230,000 works of art which have been left to deteriorate in a number of large depots around the country . |
| 8 | THE Tory party — £10 million in debt — has decided to privatise itself . |
| 9 | Equally personal is Janet Smith 's The World Outside My Window , the first piece she has made since disbanding her company and the first in a long time that she has made to please herself . |
| 10 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 11 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 12 | Recent work on lesbian alcoholism has had to devote itself first to disproving deviancy models of this condition ( e.g. Anderson and Henderson 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Notwithstanding the welcome opportunity to see the work of this distinguished artist , I was left with the depressing realisation that when one compares the contribution of the women artists with that of the men one sees that the women artist has had to deny herself the luxury of exploring and depicting those ‘ strange developments ’ that exploit humour as well as horror , and which ultimately liberate artist and viewer alike . |
| 14 | For fifteen years Kim Longshaw , who 's a diabetic , has had to inject herself four times a day . |
| 15 | The US , even more than Britain , has had to propel itself into international roles in order to create the illusion of being a united nation-state . |
| 16 | On Bosnia , while Britain has welcomed US involvement , it has had to keep itself from dismissing as laughable the feasibility of proposed US airdrops . |
| 17 | Rather , Laing believes the UK has got to reassert itself as a manufacturing economy . |
| 18 | In answer to Unix Labs 's recently filed a petition for reconsideration , Judge Dickenson Debevoise has refused to reverse himself and hand down a preliminary injunction preventing Berkeley Software from distributing its BSD/386 code . |
| 19 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 20 | Well , whatever it means , poor little Retty Priddle has tried to drown herself ! ’ |
| 21 | With the aid of the surgeon 's skills , she has tried to make herself a mixture of the great beauties through the ages . |
| 22 | are that this is transmitted throughout the world within minutes of being spoken so you have the monarchy which has tried to make itself populist , has actually made its language much more populist . |
| 23 | Sarah Jacobs has tried to build herself a life , saving for four years to buy furniture and applying for training courses . |
| 24 | Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) . |
| 25 | The word ‘ aquatint ’ has begun to obtrude itself , and it is worth taking space and time for this particular form of illustration , because of its particular beauty and because fashion , in this case probably rightly , has elected it to the aristocracy , if not the crown royal , of the illustrated book world . |
| 26 | Over the last 20 years the Church has begun to appraise itself . |
| 27 | Uniplex Ltd , the Hemel Hempstead-based Unix office automation stalwart , has begun to re-fashion itself as a groupware house , an effort that will take another 10 to 12 months to realise . |
| 28 | Uniplex Ltd , the Hemel Hempstead-based Unix office automation stalwart , has begun to re-fashion itself as a groupware house , an effort that will take another 10 to 12 months to realise . |
| 29 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 30 | It was Cubitt who noted that ‘ artistic knowledge and cultured tastes are not now confined to what are sometimes called the upper classes ’ and the German historian , Muthesius , saw that ‘ within Nonconformity , each individual layman 's romanticism has begun to show itself — as seen in the architectural achievements of the Congregationalists ’ . |