Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | He said he would be pressing for the expulsion of several members of the local association who had privately aired derogatory views about a black candidate while publicly supporting him . |
2 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
3 | By that time I had made drinking friends in the Hotel Cabo de Hornos with a couple of young American teachers down from Ecuador who had long wanted to visit the Towers of Paine , the very spot where — geologists had written — the two tectonic plates in which I was interested had come together . |
4 | There is no champion tennis player who has never served a double fault ; no professional musician who had never played a wrong note ; and no doctor or nurse who has not made an error of diagnosis . |
5 | It was then Aberdeen 's turn to stare elimination in the face , and expulsion of the most embarrassing sort for a side who had earlier enjoyed a supposedly comfortable lead over the team from the lower league . |
6 | ‘ But it will definitely be rescheduled for the New Year and fans who have already bought tickets will find they are still valid or they can have their money back if they prefer . ’ |
7 | In the meantime there was Matey to reassure — Matey who had always given him her love and support , whom he had taken for granted , as though her love and loyalty were simply his due . |
8 | Hobson Brown , in Russell Reynolds ' New York office , maintains that his firm , more effectively than the other headhunters , has attracted the first real career-search consultants , graduates from business schools who have deliberately chosen to make a career in executive search ; it was always the goal of Reynolds himself to build up a business as prestigious and high-powered as Morgan Guaranty , in which an ambitious graduate would seek to work right through to retirement . |
9 | To those readers who have already contributed to it , the Foundation again expresses its gratitude . |
10 | It was a difficult decision which must be much more difficult for many of our readers who have never used a computer before . |
11 | ( This also applies to LEAs who have equally taken issue with HMI reports on their provision of education . ) |
12 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
13 | And er , as I say , observing this and watching Hector 's work and how things have gone on over the years , er as you know , there 's been a tremendous revival of interest in driving , so many people have er , restored carts or had new ones built and erm the young farriers who 've never had the experience with driving horses , they have run into problems with erm , keeping them going soundly and overcoming problems which crop up when horses are driven on the road a lot . |
14 | Those who dismissed the movies were also dishonest in the sense that they very rarely conceded that the whole tone of feature films had been moulded by politicians and largely middle-class pressure groups and religious organizations who had ceaselessly clamoured for censorship and for films to be morally edifying and uplifting . |
15 | Inside are five potential recruits who have just spent twenty-four hours being briefed , tested , interviewed and assessed . |
16 | R.L. Soale 's ‘ Peace Perfect Peace ’ ( above ) , is a more typical entry to the marquetry classes , and won the Jack Fletcher Trophy for the best piece in the Secondary category , for marquetarians who have never won an award . |
17 | The part was originally written for Antonia Bernasconi who had earlier appeared in Vienna in Gluck 's Alceste in 1767 . |
18 | As Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit , Elizabeth Renihan and Jenna Russell battle entertainingly for Macheath 's dark heart , and there 's strong support from Susan Jane-Tanner as an entertainingly sour Mrs Peachum , Anthony O'Donnell as a rotund Lockit , Nick Holder as a hilarious Brummie highwayman and from Alan Cox as the beggar who has supposedly written the opera . |
19 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
20 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |
21 | An analogy is the need to serve a notice of intention to adduce additional evidence of a witness who has already given evidence in the committal proceedings . |
22 | Each defendant calls a witness who has also submitted a statement with the facts of his or her life , particularly where that life crosses that of the defendant . |
23 | She turned to the stranger who had just finished talking to a mechanic who was now giving her car the once-over . |
24 | He waits a long time before seizing her , getting to know her habits and other information about her , but she is really a complete stranger who has never met or loved him , unlike Daisy and Gatsby who at least know each other before the book begins . |
25 | They compared her , in advance , to similar women in the States who had manifestly succeeded but when they interviewed her , and found how she differed from the stereotype , they were even more intrigued . |
26 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
27 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
28 | ‘ I do not presume to counsel my sovereign on the choice of her advisers , ’ he once grandly told a journalist who had rashly asked him how he was going to vote in a parliamentary election . |
29 | Every secretary whose word processor refuses to talk to its printer , every technologically-challenged hotel receptionist , every journalist who has ever seen his scoop disappear forever through the hole in the ozone layer can walk a little taller . |
30 | Too many so-called experts in business schools are drop-outs from industry who 've never succeeded in making any profit in their life : hardly a qualification for teaching business success . |