Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 2 | With this the criticism of traditional orthodox formulations , which had long been regarded as absolutely central and essential to Christian belief , came on the stage in a new way and ushered in a debate which has continued up to the present . |
| 3 | From then on there was a sustained increase in output and productivity , which has continued through to the 1980s . |
| 4 | Gentle had successfully recreated one Gauguin previously , a small picture which had gone on to the open market and been consumed without any questions being asked . |
| 5 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 6 | He found a ‘ poor fishing town ’ which had retreated on to the cliffs to avoid the winter storms ; but it was far better situated than Daniel Defoe allowed when he visited the coast in the 1720s . |
| 7 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 8 | Some injuries had apparently been caused by the explosion dislodging flooring and equipment on the overhead jigs which had crashed on to the men working on the shop-floor . |
| 9 | There are many topographical names which have lasted down to the present in a perfectly straightforward fashion ( the articles or toponymical qualifiers being dropped ) , such as Field , Bridge , Ford , Green , Lake , Lane , Orchard , Townsend , Gate and so on , but others are less obvious in their modern guises — Atwell and Attwood , Byfield and Byway are clear enough as examples in which the definite article has become assimilated , but others like Boveton = above town , and Binetheton — below town , are not so obvious at first sight , neither are Biart — dweller near the enclosure , Stanners = dweller at the stone house , or Leese = dweller by the pasture . |