Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A frequent methodological problem in electrophysiological experiments has been that experimenters have either failed to exercise any control whatever over their subjects ' cognitive strategies or else have relied simply on instructions to subjects to engage in a particular mental activity . |
| 2 | In areas such as the Baltic provinces and the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland , the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where little had existed . |
| 3 | Vice-Admiral de Robeck , unaware of the true cause of the disaster and fearing the presence of land-based torpedoes , seems either to have lost his nerve or simply to have resolved on caution . |
| 4 | For this is the beach club that really has got EVERYTHING for the family . |
| 5 | Heath , ‘ the grocer ’ , showed the Tories in a truer light than Home had done , as an increasingly ‘ middle class ’ ( as opposed to aristocratic ) party . |
| 6 | She liked the way he shuddered and groaned , docile as the pets that once had surrounded her and Sycorax and who would have submitted likewise if she had chosen to maltreat them . |
| 7 | Lenin was willing to make concessions , but not on the centralized unity of the party — ‘ we must not weaken the force of our offensive by breaking into numerous independent political parties ; we must not introduce estrangement and isolation and then have to heal an artificially implanted disease with the aid of these notorious ‘ federal ’ , plasters ’ . |
| 8 | The writer has no access to immediate feedback and simply has to imagine the reader 's reaction . |
| 9 | It is also possible that surface dust is mobilized by electrical forces : indeed , such forces are of great importance to the minority of scientists who believe that very little lava if any has flowed from the lunar interior . |
| 10 | Prohibition does not work in preventing alcoholism and never has done throughout history . |
| 11 | The eunuch had made a cursory search and then had reported the matter to Prince Narouz . |
| 12 | He then became the resident guitarist at ECM and therefore has played guitar for everyone in the modern movement : for example , Paul Bley , Mike Gibbs , Eberhard Weber , Paul Motian and Jan Gabarek . |
| 13 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 14 | His grandmother , who lived with the family , was a diabetic and later had noticed her tablets had been interfered with . |
| 15 | In the first place , perhaps , as many social thinkers from Bernstein to Schumpeter and beyond have suggested , by the economic successes of capitalism . |
| 16 | She and Oliver ran through the downpour to Cobalt 's car and then had to wait in the inadequate shelter of the wall until he arrived . |
| 17 | She set off boldly towards the fence and only had to put her feet down speedily once . |
| 18 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 19 | She had shed 1½ st ( 9.1kg ) in two months and consequently had inspired Stephanie to come along too . |
| 20 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ I see no reason why the NHS management should give a higher offer in response to industrial action and then have to close down beds and reduce patient services to pay for it . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ I see no reason why the NHS management should give a higher offer in response to industrial action and then have to close down beds and reduce patient services to pay for it . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ I see no reason why the NHS management should give a higher offer in response to industrial action and then have to close beds and reduce patient services to pay for it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Clothes make man ’ said the German proverb , and no age was more aware of it than one in which social mobility could actually place numerous people into the historically novel situation of playing new ( and superior ) social roles and therefore having to wear the appropriate costumes . |
| 24 | He said that the oil , which was spilled more than two months ago , had seeped into cracks and crevices along the coast and more had settled above the tide mark and on the sea bed . |
| 25 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 26 | The women not only carried all the possessions they did n't want to risk losing in large baskets on their heads but also had to control their children and often had to sling them over their backs as they were too weak to walk themselves . |
| 27 | Schools in Lothian have been asked to commence Testing in the summer term but only have to test one group in each class in either Language or Mathematics , if that class has a group which is deemed to be moving from one stage to the next . |
| 28 | Now , having beaten West Indies three times in quick succession after not having beaten them for years , outclassing New Zealand 2–0 out there , the first team in over a decade to win a Test rubber there , and of course reaching the World Cup final , England are now a force to be reckoned with . |
| 29 | Ramsbum smiled the smile of pure malevolence that Amiss had come to expect of him . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , Sinfield makes the cogent point that the idea of a personal judgement that nevertheless has to approximate to an accepted opinion involves the candidate in learning tricks . |