Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , the minister has only once had to issue such a directive ( when the Conservatives after 1951 stopped any further action by the Iron and Steel Board ) as these reserve powers are quite sufficient to make the boards listen carefully to any suggestions made in a less formal manner by the minister . |
| 2 | Over the last 20 years or so , the growing youngster has not simply had to edge his way to acceptance by the adult community as one of them : he has had to gain entry to and then leave a comparatively regulated teenage society in addition . |
| 3 | The Chancellor says that all that is a price well worth paying to reduce inflation — of course , the Chancellor has not yet had to pay that price , but he will . |
| 4 | And he has made a lot of easy promises that he has not yet had to keep . |
| 5 | ‘ My swing has not really had to alter , but I am probably hitting my drives 20 yards shorter and I 'm needing two or three irons longer than I needed before the accident . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Keith ‘ Cheggers ’ Chegwin , the televisionist non-pareil who not too long ago spent ‘ several weeks ’ in a clinic being treated for ‘ stress ’ , has once again had to seek medical treatment . |
| 7 | However , it has also unexpectedly had to rewrite code for the vast numbers of device drivers and peripherals supported in the Intel iAPX-86 family of microprocessors . |
| 8 | Readers will be interested to know that Mr Mant , now in his 90th year , has also recently had published a book on the fall of Singapore in 1942 , another historic event to which he was witness . |
| 9 | Darkman has been billed as Sam Raimi 's move toward mainstream Hollywood , though given the current fascination for comic-book movies , he has n't really had to move that far . |
| 10 | With the shamelessness of the truly selfish man who has never really had to consider another 's feelings he stopped the Archdeacon dead and , taking his fork from his fish , said , ‘ What about Gray ? ’ |
| 11 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 12 | Former general Fidel Ramos , elected president last year , seems not only to have won over former coup plotters but also to show deregulatory promise . |
| 13 | Without entering into the substantive details of the agreement or of the 1990 convention for its application , which appears not yet to have entered into force , it may be noted that it sets out rules for crossing the signatory states ' frontiers not just for their own citizens but also for citizens of all EC Member States , and the Convention of Application distinguishes between treatment at the internal and external borders of the signatory states . |
| 14 | The Countess of Huntingdon 's Methodist Connexion , founded in the mid-18th century , was yet another Calvinistic organisation , we may note with interest ; what with Robert Titford being baptised at one of their chapels , and his sister Elizabeth having been registered with the Zion congregation in Frome , Calvinism seems once again to have cast its shadow across the family , even into the 19th century . |
| 15 | She appears also however to have had in mind the entry to the trade of unequivocally middle-class girls , arguing that " the most cultivated class of women could become proof-readers ( which was almost like " working in publishing " ) . |
| 16 | While there seems to be no reason to doubt the account to this point in Molla Yegan 's career , a question is raised about Taskopruzade 's statement that he did not again hold office by a note of Molla Yegan 's ( the only example I have found of his signature ) appearing on a page of the dated 839/1435–6 , of Isa Bey , the son of Bayezid Pasa , containing the signatures of a number of notable scholars of the fifteenth century : the page , which has been reproduced in facsimile by Unver , seems indeed almost to have become an autograph book for leading scholars of the period . |
| 17 | But they still received some protection from folk like the English kings who found profit in them , and especially from William Rufus , who seems quite sincerely to have disliked the Church 's intolerance ; and the Church itself strongly condemned violent persecution . |
| 18 | Marcel Proust was born in Paris , on the tenth of July , eighteen seventy-one , two months after the collapse of the Commune. erm His father was a well-known doctor , who seems curiously enough to have failed markedly to understand the causes of his son 's lifelong illness erm and his mother was the daughter of a Jewish stockbroker . |
| 19 | On one issue — the nature of the orcs — Tolkien seems very nearly to have arrived at a solution without quite being able to grasp it , a sign , perhaps , of exhaustion . |
| 20 | Once the notion of trust had become divorced from that of dependence on a testamentary heir ( which seems very soon to have happened ) , the way was open to set up trusts charged on beneficiaries under the will other than the heir , or even on persons who benefited where there was no will at all . |
| 21 | She does not have to prove any negligence on the part of the manufacturer and does not even have to rely upon the product liability provisions of Part I of the Act . |
| 22 | The user does not only have to overcome the physical aspect of dependency , manifest in withdrawal symptoms , but also psychological dependence . |
| 23 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 24 | Recent evidence suggests however , that the introduction of modern technology does not necessarily have to lead to a continuing decline in the agricultural labour force . |
| 25 | A a a member of staff may feel that they want to say something about a kid , and it does not necessarily have to agree with what the kid |
| 26 | It does not necessarily have to develop along Western lines to remain democratic . |
| 27 | Your proxy does not necessarily have to sign the form himself or herself . |
| 28 | This , he believes , has taught the group to be flexible — after 15 years of looking after multivendor systems , it does n't simply have to rely on managing subcontractors unlike many of its rivals . |
| 29 | And that 's third party carriage forward which is even , and Peter 's even happier because he does n't even have to wait two days now , he gets his delivery next day . |
| 30 | She does n't even have to ask … people just feel obliged to run her errands … as though they were atoning for something . |