Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ?
2 the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to .
3 WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats .
4 If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) .
5 Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised .
6 JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump .
7 East Grinstead , West Sussex-based company Shakespeare Speechwriter UK Ltd , formerly EMG Software , has come up with the ultimate system for keyboard-phobes — a voice activated personal computer .
8 This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance .
9 The Social Democrat Edith Niehuis has come up with the dubious argument that , because of the Catholic approach to female priests ( who have practised in the Protestant Church here for two decades ) , the tax is an ‘ unconstitutional discrimination against women ’ .
10 One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening .
11 Now , last weekend 's cycle ride down the new section of the M forty once looked threatened by being blown away as the Met Office warned of impending storms , but in fact the sun shone down on the riders and today , less than a week the counting is done and Mike Biddolph from Oxfordshire County Council , who also took part in the event , has come up with the grand total of — how much have you raised Mike ?
12 In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing .
13 THE time has come round in the European Commission 's calendar ( see page 5 ) when another set of committee meetings will set out to define yet another ‘ framework ’ programme , the commission 's name for the programmes of largely applied research which it plans and administers on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) .
14 Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever .
15 ‘ This has come out of the blue , and we are due to go to Argentina next summer , ’ said Wood .
16 Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that .
17 From Wolhusen the circular itinerary now continues south on road 10 which has come in on the left ( ie east from Luzern .
18 It is remarkable that the present Government have never reflected upon the great increase in public expenditure , and the substantial change in its pattern , which has come about during the past five years in consequence of their policies in the field of the social services .
19 Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years .
20 I can inform the Secretary of State straight away that there is a much more immediate cause seriously impairing ’ the ability of the Agency to deliver a proper service ’ and that is the swingeing cuts in staff numbers of up to one third in each local office that the Secretary of State has carried through in the past two years under the operational strategy .
21 He certainly underestimates the effective recruiting campaigns that the CPS has carried out during the past year and he seems to have ignored the fact that , in order to carry out its work as well as possible , its total manpower requirement has been increased .
22 If that money has to come out of the existing budget , then we should , or the Chief Constable , or the Police Committee ought to look at the priorities again .
23 Uncertainty extends also to the question of Molla Yegan 's death date , about which a wide divergence of opinion has grown up amongst the various sources , who give dates ranging from 840/1436–7 to 878/1473–4 .
24 In this century , a substantial body of functionally differentiated statute law has grown up around the landlord–tenant relationship , such that today the nineteenth-century rules have limited — though still very important — practical application .
25 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 .
26 The town has grown up around the magnificent 13th century Scaliger castle which towers above the water from a sheer rock and offers the most fantastic views .
27 It has shot up in the recent hot sun , while the grass at the city 's other cemeteries has been burned off .
28 The Labour Party has moved on to the social democratic ground , it may even choose to call itself a social democratic party — in any case , it should complete the process with a constitution to suit .
29 An encouraging aspect of the Rossini celebration is the wider view of his art which has opened up in the past quarter of a century .
30 A third source of opportunity has opened up by the increased willingness of many firms to contemplate non-traditional forms of investment ( NFI ) , also in their marginal territories .
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