Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His silence encouraged her to be even more frank , and , looking to where the moonlight caught the line of his strong jaw , she said , ‘ I know you appreciate the help I 've given by stepping in to take Stella 's place , and for that reason I doubt that you would give me the sack — or tell me to go . |
| 2 | The silicon ingots are highly perfect single crystals and on the atomic scale the cutting has to proceed through breaking bonds . |
| 3 | Courtaulds Nippon Paint , a 50/50 joint venture between Courtaulds Coatings in the UK and Nippon Paint in Japan , will bring together the coil coatings technology of both companies and will make available to European customers the best Japanese technology and the systems Nippon Paint has developed for providing fast-response customer service . |
| 4 | This essential merging of primary rate and basic rate services will be achieved using the ‘ fractional Megastream ’ technology that the company 's Martlesham Laboratory on Martlesham Heath , Suffolk has developed for squeezing multiple ISDN channels over ordinary copper circuits . |
| 5 | Fundamentalists execrate someone for writing a book that they have n't read , and a famous novelist has to go into hiding for fear of his life . |
| 6 | But her mother is always distressed when she leaves , and dismayed that she has to go before doing just one more job to help . |
| 7 | The consequences for some nations or subgroups in a population of being without access to environmental data or the tools for analysing them while others have such access are potentially profound — as the European Commission has recognized in issuing a directive on public access to environmental data ( CEC 1990d ) — yet space limitations have also precluded their discussion . |
| 8 | ‘ Ultimately , rock'n'roll has to contend with carrying the burden of primitive music on its shoulders , the way Atlas carried the world on his shoulders . |
| 9 | The worse a woman 's education , the less she has to lose by dropping out of the jobs market to have a child . |
| 10 | Mr Debbasch has counterattacked by bringing charges for forgery and defamation . |
| 11 | Over the past two years the debate has veered between consolidating the remains as a war memorial and reconstructing the church ( see The Art Newspaper No. 9 , June 1991 , p.14 ) . |
| 12 | The University shall provide the accommodation , catering services and other services specified in writing in the booking and which the University has undertaken in writing to provide , except in circumstances in 6.1 of these Conditions . |
| 13 | Twenty-five years of exploitation have since been repaid by thirty years of largesse , but with dismal result : a situation which Professor Marshall Goldman of Harvard has likened to trying to cure a half-starved baby by overfeeding in old age . |
| 14 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the answer that he has given on paying the guaranteed minimum pension to the Maxwell pensioners is wholly inadequate ? |
| 15 | For relatively large volumes of antibodies , industry has relied on raising the hybrids in ascites ( fluid in the peritoneal cavity ) in mice , rather than in tissue culture . |
| 16 | Marion Dawkins has referred to suffering as ‘ involving unpleasant subjective feeling ’ . |
| 17 | The balance has tipped from viewing the problem entirely in terms of liability and expense to acknowledging that it also offers an opportunity … |
| 18 | The company has succeeded by selling insurance over the phone and cutting out brokers and their commissions . |
| 19 | Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance . |
| 20 | Point of sale systems supplier Riva Group Plc has succeeded in stemming its losses for the year to December 31 by drastic cost-cutting and leaving unprofitable market sectors . |
| 21 | The broadly favourable response from all quarters to the New Brighton and Vauxhall draft area strategies suggests MDC has succeeded in allaying local fears of inappropriate development and has responded to local aspirations in a way that will promote co-operation with the private sector . |
| 22 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 23 | But if Bair has failed to tie up all de Beauvoir 's loose ends in a securely fastened knot , she has succeeded in writing a very readable biography of a woman whose significance to modern feminism is never underestimated . |
| 24 | As for the author 's intentions , what counts is only whether or not he has succeeded in writing poetry , and that too can be discerned by reference to the text alone . |
| 25 | A firm favourite with the cognoscenti is Michael Bolton , who has succeeded in transforming Celtic and Anglo-Saxon models into thoroughly modern , wearable jewellery . |
| 26 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |
| 27 | J. D. North has succeeded in reconstructing the St Albans escapement from the purely verbal description given in the surviving manuscript . |
| 28 | Of course there are individual doctors who are well aware of the mess their profession has got itself into ; but the very fact that they are in a profession , and one which has succeeded in armouring itself against state intervention , makes it hard for them to get their ideas accepted . |
| 29 | Houston police are trying to find a man who has succeeded in getting teenage girls to pose nude for him by saying they will appear in a music video for NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK . |
| 30 | Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on Macedonian territory and it has succeeded in getting its neighbours to say the same . |