Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attention has most recently focused on ensuring competition in regulated public sectors such as telecommunications , postal services , gas and electricity . |
| 2 | Dainty 's work has so far concentrated on using the technique to grow silicon nitride on silicon , with the hope of a later move to III/V substrates . |
| 3 | However , my enjoyment in witnessing this rejuvenated Athletico is spoilt by the fact that Terry Wade has so far persisted in wearing white shorts whilst the rest of his team mates wear the customary black . |
| 4 | One is that Mr Lawson has not yet succeeded in getting a handle on domestic demand , and the signs of success this summer were misleading . |
| 5 | Worried by the reforms made by his predecessor Lionel Jospin , those directly affected fear any tendency towards publicity seeking by a ‘ Minister of Cultural Education ’ who , it seems , has not yet succeeded in shaking off his image as a lightweight . |
| 6 | There is Commonwealth authority that there is no obligation to disclose facts of which the firm is unaware " notwithstanding that prudent enquiry would reveal their existence " provided that the fiduciary has not deliberately refrained from acquiring them . |
| 7 | ‘ The recent change from Madam to Madame , ’ she said , ‘ though it has doubtless raised the tone and general tenor of proceedings in this low and benighted place , has not quite succeeded in erasing the traces of squalor and indeed sleaze which cling to that title in the popular or gutter imagination whenever it is applied to a hard-working woman . |
| 8 | They had only just recovered from dealing with all the correspondence and presents from the wedding ; six days later , when the pregnancy became official , lorry loads of letters , bibs and baby boots rained down upon them . |
| 9 | The whole episode was clearly a great embarrassment to my father , and by the time of that conversation in Lord Darlington 's study , he had long since returned to busying himself as much as ever . |
| 10 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 11 | She had not even thought about persuading Marek Nowak to write down what he had told her . |
| 12 | In the event , however , she had not even thought of doing so . |
| 13 | But Soviet leaders had not yet conceived of extending such formally guaranteed zones , as opposed to the looser idea of ‘ zones of peace ’ , to Third World regions . |
| 14 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 15 | It was the worst raid so far but Maureen who had not yet returned to driving was with her mother in the shelter and Anne , who finished work at ten o'clock , had reached home , dodging from shelter to shelter . |
| 16 | A woman , described by two Portlaoise psychiatrists , had not only taken to swigging Jeyes ' fluid she had also become dependent on it . |
| 17 | Looking for lines of descent with modification had not merely led to finding interesting fossils , but had also produced better understanding of how existing species fit together . |
| 18 | This tense relationship between bourgeois careerism and communist party political commitment was at the root of the accusation that during this period Nizan had not entirely succeeded in severing his links with his bourgeois past . |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone here believes in him and we 've not even thought of criticising him . |
| 20 | But he knew he would not see them here — they were much further north and anyway he would know he was near them when the crows gave way to a different more sinister corvid-the hooded crows , the vicious crows whose kind had once nearly succeeded in killing Minch when she was trapped near Callanish . |
| 21 | Accused of hen-stealing , fox and vixen had once again insisted on going back to their lair alone to look for feathers . |
| 22 | Alison had probably never thought about getting . |
| 23 | He listened , made soft encouraging noises , held the receiver an inch or two from his ear , and meanwhile noted that the writer , poor bastard , had n't even thought of altering the distinctive cross-bar of his small letter t . |
| 24 | I still had n't actually thought of doing anything until the woman ran towards me and cried , ‘ Help , please . |
| 25 | And Pete was relieved , because he had n't really felt like going anywhere , either . |
| 26 | Six years — six years in which I 've never quite succeeded in getting you out of my mind . ’ |
| 27 | I 've never really cared for driving . |
| 28 | At least some of the increase in late life fitness in ‘ old ’ lines could have been caused by reduction in the frequency of predominantly late-acting mutations , and a study of the effects of reverse selection suggested that this was the case , and that mutation accumulation had therefore also contributed to ageing in the base stock . |
| 29 | UNTIL two years ago Paul Grayson , Lancashire 's young fly-half with unlimited potential , had never even thought of appearing in a major representative match at Twickenham . |
| 30 | This task is an important one because of the enormous amounts of program in the hands of organizations whose original writers have long since left without leaving any description of what they had done . |