Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the opening stages of the civil war in Croatia , the army says it has intervened to protect its soldiers and facilities and act as a buffer between warring sides . |
| 2 | I can not remember whether he has arranged to visit me at Twickenham . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what has been the level of investment since 1979 into wave energy research ; and what initiatives he has undertaken to promote its use . |
| 4 | The dangers of such an approach can be seen at its most extreme in Gordon Rattray Taylor 's neo-Freudian interpretation of Sex in History : ‘ The history of civilisation is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful drives and the systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them ’ . |
| 5 | I wonder what the good doctor and his housekeeper make of her — and what story she has concocted to explain her presence there ? |
| 6 | The later crimes duplicate those committed by Dyer , who has wished to baptise his churches with the blood of young victims . |
| 7 | 4 You work in a bookshop , someone has telephoned to ask you to put the last copy of a particular book ( which will be difficult to replace ) on one side . |
| 8 | If your mail to a debtor is returned with this notation and he has forgotten to leave you his new address all is not lost . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the discipline itself , especially in the United States , has resolved to regard him as a leading advocate of scientific method and by subscribing to this interpretation we have at least avoided causing confusion . |
| 10 | The period around the time of the full Moon on the 10th will necessitate a certain amount of soul-searching on your part , but the time has come to regain your self- confidence and live how and where you wish . |
| 11 | Perhaps the time has come to test it . |
| 12 | Now , having spent a hard eight years making clear what we are against , the time has come to describe what we are for . |
| 13 | Next there is a group of colleagues whom I shall describe as the ‘ patriots ’ , who through love of country and a proper belief in its democratic institutions do not accept that the time has come to deny our nationality . |
| 14 | The groom has come to collect his bride . |
| 15 | ‘ It has come to take you away , ’ said a German who spoke English . |
| 16 | Mosley said : ‘ We 've been listening long enough and the time has come to do something about it . |
| 17 | Tina Howe 's Painting Churches shows her in full flight , as the wife of a distinguished Boston poet and the mother of a women painter who has come to do their portrait . |
| 18 | During a career which spans teaching ( including a spell in Kirkwall ) and ten years as a deaconess in such areas of social and urban deprivation as Irvine and Muirhouse , Wright has come to realise her strengths lie in forging informal relationships . |
| 19 | Nobody has come to see me today about that and I think it is disgraceful that the surgery has been disrupted , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The son 's arrival makes the tenants think that the owner is dead and that the son has come to claim his inheritance . |
| 21 | The sea has come to claim us — |
| 22 | They are all faced with the power of God in Jesus who has come to destroy them . |
| 23 | Should we advise Her Majesty under whose Charter we operate , that the time has come to devolve our responsibilities gradually to the institutions who are our partners ? … |
| 24 | Since then , it has come to designate what is clearly perceived as a property in its own right , which , when used in an adjective , is ascribed to the accompanying noun ( or , strictly , to the entity that is its referential locus ) . |
| 25 | I will argue , in this paper that , although valuable information is currently being lost to history , it need not and it should not be lost and the time has come to prevent it . |
| 26 | One friend , whose widowed father has come to share their home , told me how hard it is to put up with his constant smoking . |
| 27 | Perhaps you should relax a little , and — who knows — perhaps you 'll find your own happy ending where you least expect it , and now , if you 'll excuse me , the time has come to reward my friends in advance for the efforts they have promised to make on our behalf . ’ |
| 28 | Sir Leicester may think it appropriate to keep Mr Rouncewell waiting , ‘ opposing his repose and that of Chesney Wold to the restless flight of ironmasters ’ , but it is his housekeeper 's son who now wields the moral authority , for he has come to remove his future daughter-in-law , the lady 's maid Rosa , from Lady Dedlock 's charge because he thinks that position is unsuitable . |
| 29 | Every ache and pain , every common cold , every bout of indigestion , every headache , every broken bone has its emotional meaning , and has come to help us — if we will listen to its message . |
| 30 | At last Robert Sheldrake said , ‘ Good veterinary nurses are sometimes difficult to find , but Dawn is an old friend who has come to help us out in our new venture . ’ |