Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not very easy to arrange ventilation schemes when the designer has forgotten to do so and often the best that could be done was to arrange to leave the inspection doors open when on the ground . |
| 2 | The inquiry said the deferment of projects involving large capital expenditure , frequency of reorganisation within BR , and lack of control of projects did not stem from any individual 's decision , but ‘ from the way in which the railway has come to do things . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's alright Kerry it 's just that Graham has come to do , to observe my teaching and he 'll be wanting to sit there , is that alright ? |
| 5 | Mosley said : ‘ We 've been listening long enough and the time has come to do something about it . |
| 6 | She has applied to do a nursing degree . |
| 7 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 8 | Iceland left the IWC at last year 's annual meeting and Norway has threatened to do so this year , saying it will resume whaling whatever the IWC 's decision . |
| 9 | If Mr Hussein has decided to do so — by ordering a full or partial withdrawal from Kuwait before January 15th — he will find it less humiliating to say so to the European Community , or to Arab mediators , than to Mr Baker . |
| 10 | Making the most of a vital resource The profession has decided to do something positive about women |
| 11 | Here again , AEG has decided to do away with the system of locking the motor at the required height by twisting one of these handles . |
| 12 | If an authority has decided to do an act which is allegedly illegal but has not yet done it then , of course , the applicant will want to challenge the decision to act and to obtain an order instructing the authority not to carry out its decision . |
| 13 | A teenager concerned about the plight of the homeless has decided to do something about the problem herself . |
| 14 | It has sought to do this by fostering popular capitalism in the hope of reintroducing the entrepreneurial streak into the British economy and revitalising British industry , through the introduction of incentives to both management and workforce . |
| 15 | Theology , like other studies in the broad field of the ‘ humanities ’ or the ‘ liberal arts ’ , has been compelled to face the implications of that challenge , and has sought to do so in a variety of ways . |
| 16 | Having only recently arrived in the Province , this is the first ti me he has had to do them , and they are taking him some ti me . |
| 17 | Paul Baker has had to do a lot of work on his own up front and he will benefit more than most from Lenny 's arrival . |
| 18 | She of course is in a hurry to return to Rome where she left a sweetheart and has offered to do the ironing there to save on laundry expenses so great is her anxiety to be taken . |
| 19 | Luckily someone has offered to do the washing up . |
| 20 | ‘ Helen has offered to do anything necessary in that way . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't see what that has got to do with anything , ’ she said . |
| 22 | Any winged craft has got to do better than Mach 5 to get into space . |
| 23 | So I I 've digressed er from er considering what erm erm er what this has got to do with the er erm congress of Vienna but I think it 's er hopefully er er a worthwhile erm er digression . |
| 24 | But the stab man , and the man on piecework rates … has got to do it , possibly spending more than half his time in trying to decipher it . |
| 25 | America has got to do that , Russia is broken up so it 's lesser than it is , in fact it 's going down , if only they 'd look , but you see they ca n't do it now without outside help . |
| 26 | ‘ But I still do n't see what the distance between humps and dips has got to do with colour ? |
| 27 | He said , ‘ I do n't see what that has got to do with murder . ’ |
| 28 | My mind wants to know what the theft of the Wolvercote Tongue has got to do with the murder of Theodore Kemp . |
| 29 | Whether it be aspirin or 10 mg. of morphine , a trained nurse has got to do both . |
| 30 | Rocastle has got to do the business , score a hat trick or something . |