Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEC Corp has already has contracted to make the PICA chip set for Acer , and plans to second-source the set to systems developers worldwide . |
| 2 | The junior adventure story has always had to reconcile two contrasting points . |
| 3 | Potter says this approach has been satisfactory , although he would not say how many times the company had used it , but Psion has never had to take a case to court . |
| 4 | Patrice pretended not to have heard . |
| 5 | Merchants trading overseas had to cover the diplomatic and even military expenses which in later centuries would be met by their governments . |
| 6 | Whitehall has also had to find office space and officials to staff the new ministries promised by both parties . |
| 7 | During this period the Board has also had to find its feet , build up its staff resources to the planned level and concern itself with the production of some weighty discussion documents . |
| 8 | Neil Murray has often had to come into bands and reproduce another player 's bass part , or even their bass sound … |
| 9 | Intelsat has already had to stretch the lives of six older satellites over the Pacific Ocean and last summer repositioned a satellite over Indonesia to increase capacity . |
| 10 | Remarkably , Mr McGovern has never had to sell equity in his firm to outside investors , though he has given away nearly 30% to motivate employees . |
| 11 | Neither man gave evidence but their counsels argued neither had believed they were breaking the law . |
| 12 | Apart from power concerns , consistency seems also to be an issue here , with designers preferring not to have to construct composite 5V and 3V boards . |
| 13 | Appeal courts are expected to show some mercy because the defendant has twice had to face the ordeal of being sentenced . |
| 14 | Add to this the thin margins on which the industry has traditionally had to rely and a very unstable and uncertain environment for individual firms emerges . |
| 15 | Gaitskell was probably the brightest and most administratively experienced Minister the industry has ever had to deal with . |
| 16 | Of 70 injectors interviewed in depth , only 25% reported never having shared syringes ; 57% reporting reusing syringes in the previous six months , using a range of cleaning agents including household bleach . |
| 17 | As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process . |
| 18 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 19 | He reads : ’ Not that way , ’ cried his pessimistic friend grasping Toad 's arm and directing him away from the especially grim and oppressive corridor into which his laboured steps seemed automatically to have led him |
| 20 | Having her mind made up had done very little good , Jenna mused next day as they sped down the motorway that led to the Dordogne . |
| 21 | Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn . |
| 22 | He could only have been chosen had there been no other credible candidate , and Baldwin 's performance from the date of the Carlton Club meeting forward had destroyed this possibility . |
| 23 | The lower , parochial clergy seem often to have had wives and children ; but the ladies and children of the close , of whom Heloise herself had been one , become a thing of the past . |
| 24 | ‘ Like , maybe your parents were just fattening you up until you would make a decent meal for these dragons , or it was an intelligence test ; the kids smart enough to have sussed out the fact there were dragons around were the ones that would survive , and the ones that just lay there , trusting , each night , deserved to die , and their parents could n't tell them or the dragons would eat them , and stories about dragons were the only clues you were ever given ; that was all the adults could do to warn you … |
| 25 | The book 's first Russian readers seem not to have taken up its principal insight , that the most dangerous moment for an authoritarian government arrives when it tries to reform itself . |
| 26 | At least no trace of an attempt to do so has survived among the voluminous Cossack and British sources . |
| 27 | This study appears not to have allowed for transactions costs . |
| 28 | This morning 's result appears instead to have suffocated him . |
| 29 | On the other hand , there are cases in which the existence of an alternative remedy seems not to have given rise to a discretion to refuse a remedy but to have operated as an absolute bar to the award of a judicial remedy . |
| 30 | Away from Stroudwater the industry seems rather to have remained in the hands of independent craftsmen : in eight places where cloth was made , the structure of wealth resembled what was commonly found in parts where it had not taken root , with perhaps three of the four £100 men belonging to the gentry . |