Example sentences of "[vb -s] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir John enjoyed the Thatcher party ; Sir Denys has suffered a Major hangover . |
| 2 | Whatever the mix of capital investment and labour , new designs only rarely emerge from Glascoed : each has to have survived the tortuous processes of ministry procurement and the logistical rigours of subcontracted production — often involving half a dozen other factories , sometimes more . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , strike partner While there has been no doubting the high regard Beardsley is held in around Everton , many had begun to question Mo Johnston , whose future at Goodison had been in doubt after two months in the cold , looks to have earned a temporary reprieve following his equaliser against Liverpool . |
| 4 | As with mangrove forests , they do not consist of a single species that happens to have exploited a particular niche , but of a whole group of species , not necessarily related to each other , each of which is adapted to the rich pickings . |
| 5 | The Povahs ' predicament appears to have become a common one , and of course there is sympathy , but one does wonder at the borrowings and the strategy upon which they were based . |
| 6 | ‘ WONDERS ’ appears to have become the principal event in the cultural hub of the Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi tri-state region . |
| 7 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 8 | Unfortunately on these occasions , all too often the prick of conscience , if it has operated at all , is instantly suppressed before it can take control , and it is this which appears to have become the normal response . |
| 9 | Attempted suicide appears to have become an acceptable way of expressing distress among some people , and has therefore been likened to a fashion . |
| 10 | Now Daniel , 10 , appears to have made a remarkable recovery with just chemotherapy treatment and cancer tablets . |
| 11 | ‘ Your ankle appears to have made a remarkable recovery , ’ he said caustically , switching the subject . |
| 12 | ‘ As I say , sir , my father appears to have made a full recovery and I believe he is still a person of considerable dependability . |
| 13 | Also whilst Women 's Studies , particularly in Higher Education , appears to have achieved a certain respectability and is flourishing , Black Studies is on the decline and receives little public support from those concerned about racism . |
| 14 | Brooke appears to have joined the Alien Office around 1796 , and he was clerk from about 1798 to 1813 . |
| 15 | Chairs , plates , umbrella stands , waste-paper baskets , lavatories : no household object , however lowly its function , appears to have escaped the ironic Fornasetti touch . |
| 16 | But while he has anguished over his role in life , to the point where it would surprise no one if he just threw in the towel tomorrow and went off in search of obscurity , Steffi appears to have suffered no such agonies and self-doubt . |
| 17 | The General Theory appears to have assumed the dubious status of a ‘ classic ’ : a work to which everyone refers but which no one reads . |
| 18 | This betrayal appears to have provoked a large-scale opposition — as it were , an alternative ‘ fundamentalist ’ priesthood , militantly at odds with the established one which had prostituted itself to an illegitimate king . |
| 19 | His uncertainty is comprehensible , but he appears to have jumped the wrong way . |
| 20 | After Melusina she appears to have written no more poetry , and retreated further and further into voluntary silence . |
| 21 | Mary Leapor appears to have given a great deal of thought to Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ . |
| 22 | Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers . |
| 23 | During the first four years of PNP , the Authority appears to have mounted no fewer than 376 primary in-service courses at the Primary Centre . |
| 24 | Some ministers , like some clergymen and bishops in the Church of England , were extremely well paid : Parker appears to have received an annual salary of £1,700 ( nearly £60,000 in 1990 ) while Spurgeon received £1,500 . |
| 25 | If he appears to have produced a static image of Celtic society , as if the Roman impact was not yet to be observed , he must have known what he was doing . |
| 26 | Taxation appears to have taken a higher fraction of profits in the United States than in some other countries ( around one-half in the USA in 1960 as against about one-third in Japan ) . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , Irwin appears to have reconciled the two to his own satisfaction , though the arguments to which he resorted owed more to the theological aptitude displayed in his youthful biography of Keble than to ordinary practical intelligence . |
| 28 | But small or not , it appears to have left a nasty bite mark on her arm . |
| 29 | At the end of his life he appears to have held the prestigious title of magister militum , an office he had probably held after Ricimer 's death in 472 . |
| 30 | Five years under Deng Xiaoping appears to have started the mighty machine rolling in the right direction again but , in energy terms there are a number of problems to be overcome which are mainly to do with lack of adequate capital investment and resources management . |