Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 2 | Control children who were found to have died or to have moved out of the study area before their matched case had cancer diagnosed were replaced . |
| 3 | But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all . |
| 4 | Nearly all were undertaking their own personal therapy or had done so in the past , and all were appropriately supervised . |
| 5 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 6 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 7 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 8 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 9 | His job is rated Grade B on the Civil Service Scale , so he is on £31,747 a year — a figure that has risen dramatically from the £21,000 he started on in February 1989 . |
| 10 | Since the first edition of this book both the Matrimonial Homes ( Co-ownership ) Bill introduced in the House of Lords in 1980 ( which would have made provision for statutory co-ownership of the matrimonial home ) and the Land Registration of Law of Property Bill ( affecting the practice that has grown up following the case of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland ) [ 1981 ] AC 487 ) have failed . |
| 11 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 12 | The capital that has grown up around the old village of Muscat is a place of broad roads , shops , trees and flowers , imposing offices and graceful buildings in great variety . |
| 13 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 14 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 15 | Giger was asked to produce designs not only for the full-grown monster , especially its head , but also for the two earlier stages , the ‘ face-hugger ’ ( the piece that comes out of the egg to attach itself to an animal/human and force an embryo down their throat ) and the ‘ chest-burster ’ ( the small creature that has grown enough within the host to burst out to an independent existence , killing the host in the process ) . |
| 16 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 17 | Now , with the same director , part of the original company , and an influx of the new wave of circus talent that has surged up from the streets something magical has happened . |
| 18 | I feel his glare now , but let my own eyes wander past the fence to the yellow lattice of the heavy lifting gear and the big iron disc of the magnet hanging down , and the motorcar-mountain that has built up over the holiday season . |
| 19 | Meconium is the foal 's faecal material that has built up in the rectum before foaling and sometimes gets quite firm and impacted and must be passed within the first 24-hours of life . |
| 20 | Another slight problem is that when the filters are cleaned , much of the bacteria colony that has built up in the foam could be washed away . |
| 21 | Spring-cleaning , repainting and clearing out cupboards can all be good ways of dispelling any unpleasant or heavy atmosphere that has built up in the home . |
| 22 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 23 | ‘ You tend to forget all the hard work that has gone in over the season . |
| 24 | That is the note that has played softly behind the media blare of New York . |
| 25 | There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On the evening of Thursday 1 August , The Royal Academy will open its doors for Country Living readers to view the exhibition that has become on of the highlights of the London Season . |
| 28 | In posing the idea of such an ‘ iron law ’ Bukharin unwittingly predicted the actual course of events in the Soviet Union that has persisted up to the present time , that is , the continual shortfall of consumer goods production as compared to the growing population and the growth in monetary incomes . |
| 29 | For most of the past decade at least one major thoroughfare in the city centre has been shut to traffic while workmen repair a large hole that has opened up in the tarmac after the collapse of one of the old brick sewers beneath . |
| 30 | It is a town that has changed subtly with the subtly changing times and yet has maintained a distinct identity and a strange diversity of atmospheres , steeped in interest and beckoning to times ancient . |