Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its initial growth was interrupted by the subdued stock trading that followed the 1987 stock market crash , though it has since resumed to trade in reasonable volumes . |
| 2 | Mr Taylor has constantly refused to bow to public pressure and select certain players , sticking instead to his guns a policy that may now lead directly to his downfall . |
| 3 | The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof . |
| 4 | This comes as no news to anyone who has ever tried to render into English verse so much as a strophe of Horace . |
| 5 | Mr Deng has repeatedly promised to retire in recent years , but yesterday was the first time he had reissued the pledge since the Tiananmen Square massacre and a shake-up of the party leadership . |
| 6 | Although Kapil 's arrival led to some sportier tracks around the country , he has often had to contend with unhelpful pitches , which makes his overall record at home even more praiseworthy : 204 wickets in 58 Tests , at an average of 26.73 . |
| 7 | The success of such authors has probably contributed to the view that the inspiration for postmodernism in Britain has often had to come from foreign models rather than a native tradition of this form of writing , or even much of a disposition towards it . |
| 8 | In the past the National Front has sometimes managed to enter into local pacts with the two mainstream right-wing parties . |
| 9 | One woman told her that " the men get the more experienced and difficult work " , while another reported that she thought " the work very pleasant and suitable for women … but has sometimes found working with small type to be a slight strain on her eyesight " . |
| 10 | As recently as April 29 at Olivetti 's annual meeting , De Benedetti said , ‘ Olivetti has never provided financing to political parties or associated entities . |
| 11 | She has never had to compete with private collectors for company archives and hopes she never has to . |
| 12 | They may also have naively failed to distinguish between genuine British opposition to American demands and a tactical stance designed to wring aid from Washington . |
| 13 | The kind of planning which the FBI had in mind — ‘ indicative planning ’ involving the gathering and exchange of information on the development of the economy and the improvement of co-ordination , rather than the formulation and compulsory implementation of a central plan — had already been attempted under the Tories with the formation of the National Economic Development Council ( NEDC ) in 1962 but had effectively remained subordinated to conventional stop-go demand management practice : Labour promised a form of planning which would be ‘ purposeful ’ and ‘ effective ’ , which would ‘ have teeth in it somewhere ’ ( Budd , 1978 , Chapter 6 ) . |
| 14 | I think we 've all grown used to small loasses of fruit and vegetables but not on this scale . |
| 15 | You know , you 've only got to go to Eastern Europe and China , you know , these places have been completely erm , insulated from any world trade . |
| 16 | well you , you 've only got to get to subsid science |
| 17 | The Prelude , which is , in fact , the nearest thing to the great philosophical poem which Coleridge hoped Wordsworth would produce , was mostly written while Coleridge was in Malta , and it is as an exposition of Wordsworth 's ideas that we must read it ; for Coleridge , as we shall see , had already begun to return to orthodox Christianity and in 1803 was shocked at Wordsworth 's irreverence : ‘ O dearest William ! |
| 18 | When they left the following day , the eastern end of the park had already begun to fill with tattered bivouacs and shelters of thorn and tarpaulin . |
| 19 | One possibility is that he had already begun to campaign in western Saxon territory and that additional troops joined him from his supporters there . |
| 20 | On the other matter , however , inciting unrest in the city which had already led to trouble between Moslem and Copt and might still lead to massacre , Andrus was , if not the prime mover , then definitely a prime mover , and for that he must be made to pay . |
| 21 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 22 | The shares had just started to recover on faint hopes of a busy festive season . |
| 23 | The Norfolk worsted manufacture , unique in having spread from Norwich to an arable farming district , had always remained dispersed in small units without great clothiers and had never recovered from its recession in the previous century . |
| 24 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 25 | He was not clear about it , had no notion of his objective or destination ; he knew only that he had once felt filled with high sense of purpose , that aimlessness had not then been his condition , but a starry conviction . |
| 26 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 27 | It had also returned loaded with magnificent botanical , zoological , and geological collections for the Crown . |
| 28 | The judge was therefore right to admit evidence of oral admissions. ( 2 ) the prosecution had originally elected to proceed on substantive counts rather than conspiracy under the Practice Direction [ 1977 ] 1 W.L.R. 537 which was designed to avoid overloading indictments : Novac ( 1976 ) 65 Cr.App.R. 107 ; Thorne ( 1977 ) 66 Cr.App.R. 6 . |
| 29 | Sendei and Rodomonte were forced to navigate the tiny passages for themselves , and had narrowly avoided falling into open pits at least twice . |
| 30 | Ro Jai Bong , 54 , hitherto chief presidential aide and a former university professor , was appointed to succeed Prime Minister Kang Young Hoon , whom Roh had reportedly asked to retire from public life . |