Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He concluded that commentary has conformed very closely to the Committee 's preference for a style that is appropriate and complementary to Commons proceedings . |
| 2 | Our body clock has adjusted readily enough to the delay in our life-style at the weekend ( remember that the free-running period is more than 24 hours ) , but is less easily advanced , as is required , on Sunday night and Monday morning ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ He has responded very well to chemotherapy so the question of radiotherapy has not risen again . |
| 4 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
| 5 | McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago . |
| 6 | Why should we assume the so-called contented majority has come even close to fulfilling its aspirations ? |
| 7 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 8 | The swing is pushed and is not pushed again until it has come right back to its starting point . |
| 9 | The volume may be judged by an anecdote of a teacher in Massachusetts , a comparatively liberal state , which has come only lately to such activity and to a degree which would be surpassed by many other states . |
| 10 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 11 | A MAN who fled to Australia to avoid a court appearance eleven years ago has come home only to be locked up . |
| 12 | However , Mr Murdoch has come dangerously close to an edge over which other debt-happy Australian entrepreneurs have already tumbled . |
| 13 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 14 | At the same time the cost of the proposed high-speed rail link from London to the tunnel has risen nearly three-fold to £3.5bn because of environmental safeguards demanded by the Government . |
| 15 | Eventually , after two or three weeks , he has moved so close to the females that he virtually touches them . |
| 16 | Our dislike of late has turned quite rightly to an excess of animal fats , combined with a lack of fibre in the diet . |
| 17 | Seizing on the early success of the ‘ Liverpool sound ’ has lead more recently to the establishment of the video business and a start in the revival of our film industry . |
| 18 | Lydia asks me to pass her thanks to everyone who has contributed so generously to the campaign and says that while little has changed in the way of living conditions for the prisoners and their families , the campaigners are confident of their victory . |
| 19 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |
| 20 | The British government , he says , has capitulated too readily to the demands of Peking |
| 21 | The mystic claims that the reality which monotheists call ‘ God ’ is essentially unknowable , but these revealed religions claim that he has spoken very clearly to men and that his divine Word has been expressed and can be experienced in very tangible ways . |
| 22 | The adjective that has stuck most consistently to Rubinstein 's renowned stereo recordings of Chopin ( as boxed here in BMG 's 11-CD ‘ Chopin Collection ’ ) has been ‘ aristocratic ’ . |
| 23 | A failed test means no progress that round , and a test failed by 30 or more means the character has slipped right back to the bottom of the stairs — anyone beneath him must make another I test at -20 to avoid being carried back down as well . |
| 24 | And she has entrusted the musical Midases who have turned all she has touched so far to gold with the job of making her a new Garland . |
| 25 | The implementation of Council Tax has gone reasonably successfully to date and we have managed to process the first stage of recovery , that is Reminders , at the end of May 1993 . |
| 26 | Maclean opens his account in Madrid against local player Alberto Codina a week today , while for Donaldson , who reached the semi-finals of the Danish Open last month , the Guernsey event at the end of next month marks another breakthrough in that it is the first time she has gone straight in to the main draw for a Grade A tournament . |
| 27 | It has happened too often to me to be mere coincidence . |
| 28 | Their digging has cleared right down to the gravel tidy — without it they would have rendered the undergravel filter quite useless . |
| 29 | Yes , as soon as the surface has hardened enough not to be marked , it should be covered with a polythene sheet to prevent it from drying out too quickly . |
| 30 | Despite the salutary scepticism of David Hume this scholastic convention has survived right down to the present day and is perhaps best explained by saying that when intellectuals who have the mental habits of university professors are invited to specify the distinguishing criteria of human beings they end up by producing a self-image of themselves . |