Example sentences of "and have [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Dalyell has made his views known to West Lothian District Council and has pledged to raise the issue in parliament if necessary .
2 He has decided not to appeal against his conviction and sentence and has pledged to renew his contacts with the PLO immediately upon his release from prison .
3 Maxus has held talks with a Waorani organization , and has pledged to prevent colonizers coming up the road by setting up a checkpoint system .
4 Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff .
5 Perhaps , ’ I added , ‘ Santerre 's a Templar and has gone to warn his masters that one of Mandeville 's men has already been killed . ’
6 Resorts : Kranjska Gora , just over Yugoslavia 's border with Austria , stages regular World Cup races and has limited advanced as well as intermediate and beginners ' slopes ; Bled is an historic town with pistes 20 minutes drive away ; Bohinj is a pretty village ; in the Balkans , Kopaonik 's purpose-built apartments are the cheapest of the cheap ; in Bulgaria : take your pick between neo-Alpine Borovets and purpose-built Pamporovo ; in Romania , Poiana Brasov .
7 HP has decided not to take Sun 's move on its Apollo base ( UX No 394 ) , lying down and has decided to retaliate in kind .
8 Addison , 31 , did n't compete on the track last summer and has decided to hang up her spikes .
9 It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket .
10 Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos .
11 He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract .
12 Fault-tolerant systems manufacturer Stratus Computer Inc will join the exodus out of the Intel Corp 80860 RISC camp after one more iteration and has decided to switch to the Hewlett-Packard Co Precision Architecture RISC .
13 But he may have also been told by Mr Major that it is unlikely he would be promoted much further , and has decided to seek his fortune elsewhere .
14 A spokesman said : ‘ She had a very busy weekend and has decided to have an easy day today . ’
15 A spokesman said : ‘ She had a very busy weekend and has decided to have an easy day today . ’
16 The Inland Revenue has reviewed the arrangements under which it issues booklets of payslips spanning two deduction years to employers and has decided to revert to supplying employers with booklets containing payslips which relate to one deduction year ( p 103 ) .
17 As a relative newcomer , political sociology has made wider claims and has sought to extend the notions of power and politics beyond the confines traditionally set by political science .
18 Theology , like other studies in the broad field of the ‘ humanities ’ or the ‘ liberal arts ’ , has been compelled to face the implications of that challenge , and has sought to do so in a variety of ways .
19 ‘ The impetus for change has been driven by the charities rather than the City , but the City recognised this and has sought to make the most of it . ’
20 Although Sun will not sell the Open Terminals directly , it will cooperate with Labtam , as its preferred partner , on contracts that stipulate the supply of X-terminals to be used in conjunction with Sun equipment , and has sanctioned Labtam to use its worldwide distribution network as an outlet for the things .
21 In some ways Alison seems very cool about her condition and has remained detached from the experiences she is describing .
22 He has just heard that Pringle 's is not reordering , and has phoned to inquire the reason .
23 Education has , as a consequence , become a highly charged subject , with the opposition arguing for greater state expenditure and closer attention to the needs of the majority of the population , while the government has shown little concern for improving state facilities and has repressed dissenting academic opinion .
24 Mrs Cresson is more interventionist than her predecessor and has made cutting unemployment a priority .
25 Glasgow University 's principal , Sir William Fraser , has already expressed concern at the Secretary of State 's decision and has written seeking an explanation of the ruling .
26 China has fiercely opposed the introduction of democracy to Hong Kong , and has threatened to reverse any moves in that direction made by Britain before 1997 .
27 The Committee is sensitive to the concerns of local residents about the disruption they experience when major events take place at the stadium , and has undertaken to pursue all possible steps to maximise the use of public transport to take crowds to and from matches .
28 The company has , however , gone ahead with £1 million of research into public attitudes to nuclear power and has completed filming at least one television commercial , although it is not known when it will be broadcast .
29 Commitment to quality and customer service has allowed Johnson Matthey to forge key supplier relationships with many of the world 's leading semiconductor manufacturers and has led to steady growth in our market share .
30 ‘ Women 's Lib ’ has matured and has become incorporated into the language and into the superficial behaviour of most self-respecting liberal socialists .
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