Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] have " in BNC.
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1 | Subsequent attempts to diversify the economy have foundered not only on corruption and inefficiency , though these have played a part , but because Zambia could not mobilize the funds for new investment , since the growing debt burden took a larger and larger share of the national cake . |
2 | Repeated attempts to amend the Constitution in order to accommodate the Compact had been approved by referendum but had failed to achieve the requisite 75 per cent majority . |
3 | Every diocese that is actively pursuing the problem has appointed a Redundant Churches Uses Committee whose task it is to seek out suitable alternative uses . |
4 | If you are interested in pursuing the opportunity having read the sales pack , we would be pleased to discuss any questions you may have . |
5 | ‘ I had n't realised the news had already reached you . |
6 | Holt ( 1981 ) saw the setting up of LEASIB as the biggest threat to schools , allowing the APU to have more direct impact . |
7 | Allowing the buyer to have access to the goods , e.g. to paint or repair , will not amount to giving him possession provided the seller retains control over the goods . |
8 | Both policies are in accordance with the principle of allowing the individual to have control over more of his own income . |
9 | His allowing the customer to have possession of the car did not amount to a representation that the customer had the right to sell it . |
10 | The first order prohibited the father from having any contact with the children and prohibited the mother from allowing the father to have contact with the children . |
11 | The justices made prohibited steps orders ( i ) preventing the father from having any contact with the children and prohibiting the mother from allowing the father to have contact with the children and , ( ii ) prohibiting the mother from having any verbal or personal contact or contact by correspondence with the father , and the father from having any form of contact with the mother . |
12 | If the above arguments possess cogency , how can control be achieved without review becoming like appeal and without allowing the tribunal to have unlimited power ? |
13 | Some teachers said that they would have completed the questionnaire had they been asked to do so anonymously . |
14 | Between the grantor of a leasehold and the tenant ( lessor and lessee ) there is a relation of tenure , and while the lease subsists the lessor has a reversion . |
15 | The research , entirely funded by a charity , Quest for a Test for Cancer , has come up with a way of determining exactly how much stain the DNA has taken up . |
16 | The leg that had stopped the newspaper had borne me up . |
17 | ‘ Last time I was stopped the car had a bell . |
18 | The answer is that we politicians exist to enable the public to have its cake and eat it . |
19 | If someone has sold the goodwill of his business , some restraint to enable the purchaser to have that which he has bought may be recognised as reasonable . |
20 | When a cancellation is received the reservation has to be cancelled throughout the system , in the diary and reservation chart and noted on documents in the filing system . |
21 | Thomson invites Ormanroyd to move forward and he drives it on and as he did so presume the referee has whistled for a free kick for the challenge by Gemmell , yes he has . |
22 | The endowment was too limited for an establishment of this extent , and it was evident that the cost of maintaining the infirmary had been seriously underestimated . |
23 | Ukraine claimed that only 10 per cent should become CIS property , as the cost of building and maintaining the fleet had been borne by Ukraine . |
24 | The regional shades of red brick and yellow stone which once coloured the cityscape have disappeared , replaced by the grey monotone of concrete . |
25 | The regional shades of red brick and yellow stone which once coloured the cityscape have disappeared , replaced by the grey monotone of concrete . |
26 | Touching the Rock has been featured in the Sunday Telegraph and on BBC Radio 4 's Sunday and In Touch programmes , and is shortly to be the subject of Michael Burke 's 40 Minutes on BBC2 . |
27 | As I heard no explosion , I presumed the danger had been averted . |
28 | Reluctantly , he agreed the exchange had taken place , and I rushed the story to London . |
29 | The men went back and searched the trains but the man had disappeared ; all the men agreed the man had been there , they had all seen him , they were all completely baffled . |
30 | Members of the policy and resources committee agreed the Government had also failed to take into account inflation , changes in grants and transitional arrangements . |