Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some patients become disoriented , a more likely reaction if the patient is elderly or has already shown signs of mental confusion ( Clarke , 1987 ; Ford et al , 1986 ) .
2 The artists in the show were a young and academic group , many completing or having recently gained postgraduate qualifications .
3 It is relevant to recall in this connection that Younger did envisage situations where mere observation could seriously impair privacy — where , for example , the person observed had a reasonable expectation that he would not be subject to observation , or had deliberately taken steps to prevent surveillance , but special technical devices , either optical or electronic ( bugging ) , were used to spy upon him .
4 No paper or Have n't got pens there .
5 Most of the other companies included in the table are also developing or have already developed liaisons of this type .
6 A 1992 survey revealed that 39% of large companies either fear or have already experienced litigation due to lost or missing records .
7 This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) .
8 The ‘ positive vetting ’ questionnaire also queries whether members of the Army Navy or Air Corps take or have ever taken drugs .
9 For the 1960s had also seen the beginnings of the stylistic pluralism that has increasingly characterised music in the last quarter of the 20th century .
10 But the local-tax fudge is dangerous because it concentrates attention on a great dilemma facing Mr Major : how do you lead a party that has just overthrown Margaret Thatcher ?
11 This may have been the collection that has finally established medium to good pieces of this period as part of the mainstream of serious American furniture collecting .
12 The Good Restaurant Guide ‘ I 've found one that has n't gone bust ! ’
13 You must be the only MP in the country that has n't had fathers coming to you .
14 perhaps I should n't of told you , so I said well look Timothy I said this is a conversation that has n't taken place I said when Christopher comes back in I said if you want to say anything you can , but feel free not to and we 'll just , if he comes we wo n't know anything about it
15 It was Nimrod , it was Nimrod with Univers , it was , except occasionally there 'd be Grot nine , not because you felt they wanted to use Grot nine , but because they 'd said well what 's this one that has n't got serifs .
16 It 's the guy that has n't got glasses , that 's the guy you 've got ta worry about .
17 Mackenzie Walcott lamented ‘ it is almost inconceivable the waste that has mercilessly made havoc of the ancient Memorials that gave renown to Stamford ’ .
18 As the responsibility of the Department of Employment , TVEI represents a determined government effort , practically by-passing the government department that has traditionally exercised responsibility for the schools and the school curriculum , to effect a swift and decisive orientation of the curriculum towards what is considered to be of immediate relevance to the skills and know-how required by a technological society .
19 And to cap it all , in my front garden , a taxus that has already outgirthed Sir Cyril Smith was making a takeover bid for my car runway , so that friends would smilingly open their drivers ' doors only to get a mouthful of evergreen .
20 The reference to income tax at the basic rate not being charged in respect of income that has already borne tax at the basic rate is designed to ensure that there is no double taxation where the overseas entity receives income which has already borne UK tax .
21 It is equally clear , however , that it is a remarkable phenomenon and that the chances of its leading to the detection of a diversion that has already taken place , or is in the course of taking place , are reasonably good and are improving as the Agency 's technology in this area develops …
22 They will be ignoring the slide that has already taken place — and is accelerating .
23 April 1 sees the arrival at the Accademia Italiana of an exhibition of artefacts from Pompeii that has already toured Houston , New York and Malmö .
24 The ‘ defensive ’ stock-picking strategy that has recently served Wall Street investors well will now fail badly
25 He relied upon the great development that has recently taken place in the law of judicial review whereby the courts have asserted a general jurisdiction to review the decisions of tribunals and inferior courts .
26 Their goal was to create a building that would remain functional after an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 , as big as anything that has ever hit California .
27 It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life .
28 That is why the market is so worried by the budget deficit and a Labour agenda that has fatally confused government spending with economic recovery .
29 ‘ Over a period of one year we were continually evaluating our frac pack job performance , changing one component at a time until we achieved well performance that has virtually eliminated problems caused by damage near the well bore , ’ Park says .
30 White elders today , and even more so black elders who arrived in the 1950s , belong to a cohort that has often experienced assessment in earlier life as something that selects or rejects .
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