Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Darren Pearce 's Sapphire 1.8 LX has racked up a remarkable 112,000 miles in four years without missing a beat — and without regular servicing
2 But rather than fade quietly from view , Colin Angus has racked up a hit album , ‘ Boss Drum ’ , hit singles and , with ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ , orchestrated a good old-fashioned tabloid fuss into the bargain .
3 But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine .
4 Erik Olin Wright , for example , has broken down the concept of ‘ determination ’ into six distinct relations : structural limitation , selection , reproduction/non-reproduction , limits of functional compatibility , transformation and mediation .
5 While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged .
6 Nine days after the first spillage the government 's Marine Pollution Control Unit declared : " The stormy weather has broken down the oil and driven it out to sea .
7 Yeah right it ca n't get out it has to go down the pipe .
8 The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage .
9 Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters .
10 But if that is n't bad enough , it is n't scheduled until April 24 — which means he has to sit out the inter-provincials .
11 Two special spending programmes , worth ¥23.9 trillion ( $114 billion ) , announced in the past year , have helped ward off full-blown recession , and the government has propped up the stockmarket by shovelling post-office savings money into it .
12 The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four .
13 It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works .
14 For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood .
15 Neal Zaslaw has pointed out a semantic correspondence to this : in German usage , the difference between ‘ old-fashioned church practices ’ and opera/concert practice ( dual-system ) was manifest in the two words tactieren ( literally , ‘ giving the tactus ’ ) and dirigieren .
16 Using traditional measures of religiosity , he has pointed out the apparent failure of English catholic schools to produce better catholics and fewer ex-catholics than state or other schools , and has inferred the likelihood of the same for Irish schools .
17 Scriven has pointed out the distinction between formative and summative evaluation .
18 As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand .
19 Miller ( 1981 ) has pointed out the dangers of sloppy terminology here .
20 Often the policies of individual railway companies determined what happened As Professor Simmonds has pointed out the Great Western was mainly concerned with long distance traffic in its early years .
21 Nisbet ( 1979 ) has pointed out the irony that this new distrust may itself be a product of modern education , since a number of new approaches to teaching and learning encourage children to ‘ think for themselves ’ .
22 Bishop John Taylor , in his moving and perceptive book The Go Between God , has pointed out the importance of this link between the Spirit , with all his undifferentiated power , and the Word , with all its particularity of meaning .
23 As Prime Minister , Rajiv Gandhi of India has pointed out the real practical problem is that the rich will evade very high rates of tax .
24 Reviewing recent historiography of the Reformation , Christopher Haigh has pointed out the constantly shifting conflicts between factions which existed in the English court between 1527 and 1553 .
25 Lionel Sawkins has shown that men did , indeed , sing soprano parts at the French court , and Lois Rosow has pointed out the appearance of male sopranos in the chorus at the Paris Opéra .
26 Thomas Adlercreutz of the Central Board of National Antiquities , Sweden , has pointed out an error in the guide to statutes of limitation published on page 2 of the last issue of The Art Newspaper .
27 She has to carry up the children , her shopping and any other goods coming into the household .
28 This situation — where one man , eminent as he is , nevertheless has to carry out a huge amount of work effectively on his own , mirrors the two previous demutualisations — is a situation many believe should not have been repeated .
29 The Rangers Service has to carry out a fine balancing act — too many visitors could destroy the very habitat the rangers are trying to conserve .
30 If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing .
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