Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 Blackburn sent a written apology to the umpire in question and has since apologised personally to him .
2 Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper .
3 Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry .
4 At the other end of the scale GM 's long-expressed desire to achieve significant sales of its US cars in Europe has finally settled down to more realistic levels .
5 Palo Alto , California-based Neuron Data Inc has finally got around to releasing version 2.0 of its Open Interface in the UK ( UX No 386 ) .
6 MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election .
7 After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs .
8 The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real .
9 There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains .
10 Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) .
11 He would always teach trainees : " If a client asks you a question you do n't understand , say — " Hold on a minute sir , a call has just come through to me from the States " — put him on hold then , and ask me .
12 There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones .
13 ( In good humour he has already turned back to the mime : the two SPIES awaiting execution at the hands of the PLAYER ) Audiences know what to expect , and that is all that they are prepared to believe in .
14 But that was three weeks ago , as the Substitute Prosecutor has already pointed out to you .
15 So precisely what Mr Hill has already pointed out to you in the discussion which he 's had with you .
16 The Spirit has been given us to enable us to understand not the future , but the gracious gifts God has already made over to us ( 2:12 ) .
17 Colour Sergeant Skuse has already driven down to the Soviet Checkpoint , one kilometre away in East Germany , to warn the Russians that a British military convoy is expected to enter the city .
18 One of the men has already come back to Britain voluntarily , the older one is fighting extradition
19 Let him start talking up our achievements rather than pointing to an agenda which his party has already signed up to which would destroy millions of jobs through statutory works councils , statutory minimum wage and statutory compulsory working week .
20 ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said .
21 ‘ The ultimate rock guitarist for me is Hendrix — for me , no-one else has ever come close to what he did .
22 A crystallisation of hundreds of currents , from Gaelic lyricism , personal reminiscence , folk , pop , soul , Dylan , emotion , pain , salvation and the best string arrangements of all time , ‘ Astral Weeks ’ still sounds like nothing else ever recorded ; it is a unique album whose experiments and innovations have often been imitated ( those who have tried , like Mike Scott , how had a plough through ‘ Sweet Thing ’ , have made appalling fools of themselves ) but no-one — not even Van — has ever come close to its achievements .
23 A number of programs followed rapidly in PageMaker 's footprints but none of those launched for the Macintosh has ever come close to either challenging PageMaker 's lead or to matching its intuitive user interface .
24 But in successive writings Hare has gradually worked around to seeing the account of the very meaning of ethical language which he regards as correct as offering a kind of proof of utilitarianism .
25 Since then broadcasting has gradually opened up to the continuing debate over the place of homosexuality in British society , albeit confining it to a number of fairly distinct genres of drama and factual television .
26 Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order .
27 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
28 All through this Cruickshank has carefully sought not to be the outsider caught between what could have been the conflicting demands of minister-in-government and workers and patients in the field , ‘ by brining in the ministers and whoever and getting that shared view .
29 It has also contributed greatly to the funding for grass roots tennis in many parts of the world .
30 It has , for example , become the principal breed in subarctic Finland and the Finnish Ayrshire is now widespread in several northern countries , including the USSR , but the Scottish cow has also adapted well to hot climates and is found in Kenya and South Africa in particular .
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