Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television is excellent for this , and Chomsky for long has had that great domain in which to show how governments and the big businesses linked to most television powers are very , very careful to be sure that few views are presented which violate the currently useful consensus . |
| 2 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 3 | Recently there has been notable self-criticism among senior economists for not having given much more attention to the problem of income determination within the framework of Keynesian analysis [ Meade , 1982 ] . |
| 4 | The School was criticised for not having sent any pupils on to University for some years — not surprising , in view of the cessation of the Goldsmiths ' £50 Exhibitions . |
| 5 | He was a Southerner and a devout Catholic , like Moro himself , and I think he felt guilty for not having made more of the best chance anyone had so far had to rescue his hero . |
| 6 | He felt guilty now for not having paid more attention , but his thoughts had been on the groom . |
| 7 | When you are tired out and upset with yourself for not having taken that extra piece of lift some miles back , there can be a tendency to become apathetic and not even try to prevent an accident . |
| 8 | And this raises the question of whether Havel 's talent had begun to be affected by the nervous strain of writing under surveillance and of not having seen any of his work performed since 1969 . |
| 9 | In any event , I have no recollection of ever having had any differences with her except on one occasion when she telephoned me to make a request with which I was unable to comply . |
| 10 | Alan what I I do n't know the answer to what you 're proposing I really do n't know the answer and er I mean I can only go on the , my , my experiences and my experiences are I 've never ever consciously or not aware of ever having bought any as a result of |
| 11 | This exercise in planning research from outside has done little good to patients with cancer , and the politicians have given place to others . |
| 12 | No one until then had considered these subjects suitable for art . |
| 13 | The bestowal of a right upon a third party gives rise to expectations on the part of that third party that the parties will act in conformity with the treaty in their relations with itself ; without necessarily having made any commitment of its own it will see itself as the beneficiary of the exchange of promises between the parties . |
| 14 | Other aspects of his answers are equally interesting : he admits to not having won any prizes or scholarships , having apparently settled for doing what was required — that , and no more ! |
| 15 | Occasionally , is anyone going to own up to ever having said that to somebody ? |
| 16 | I hear what you say , what you 're aiming to do now , without ever having seen any form of proposal . |
| 17 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 18 | Tony and Matt are both experienced cavers , they have the right equipment , have had a guide to the mines produced by the Northern Association of Caving Clubs , and , more importantly , Matt at least has done this sort of thing before , or as he said , If I remember rightly … " |
| 19 | Overwhelmed by not having noticed this earlier , by his failure of politeness , observation and helpfulness , all that had been taught him from boyhood up , Richard proceeded at the double onto the Embankment , to escort her on to Lord Jim . |
| 20 | With his supplies he received news of Conflans ’ defeat at Quiberon Bay , which meant that his small-scale diversion had now become the main , indeed only , invasion , but he bravely pressed on to Ireland and , by now having lost another ship , finally landed a force variously put at from 600 to 1000 men at Carrickfergus , on the north side of Belfast Lough , on Friday 21 February 1760 . |
| 21 | You will by now have developed some facility with handling batches of data , summarizing features of their distributions , and investigating relationships between variables . |
| 22 | HAD SHE been born 10 years ago , baby Jessica Kelly would by now have spent most of her life in hospital . |
| 23 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |
| 24 | Ltd. , manufacturers of gas holders and iron and steelworks plant , became general manager of both companies in 1931 , managing director in 1938 , and in 1951 executive chairman of the Power Gas Corporation Ltd. , which by then had acquired all the assets of the subsidiary company . |
| 25 | 11½d. of the revenues of the New Forest from January 1246 until Michaelmas 1247 , and by then had paid most of it in . |