Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 To date , Dunrossness has received by far the largest proportion of the immigration of young professionals associated with various oil-rig servicing industries , based at Shetland 's major airport .
2 Many times an idea will be rejected simply because it has come from outside the department .
3 Gedge has seen at first-hand the reactions of people who have come into contact with the group .
4 Of these , technology has had by far the greatest impact , by permitting structural changes in internationally linked production systems .
5 Moreover , the ‘ transition to democracy ’ has occurred at exactly the time when the international economic crisis was making its presence felt with greatest intensity .
6 Sir Ranulph said : ‘ After leading expeditions to remote goals , hot and cold , this endeavour has proved by far the most difficult , and near lethal .
7 Sumitomo Metal Industries , Japan 's third-largest steel company , has abandoned at least the first phase of a big refinancing scheme .
8 The mass is apparently about right , and the Z o has appeared at just the right frequency .
9 It has remained at approximately the same latitude since its discovery but it has changed in size , reaching its maximum size of 40 000 × 13 000 km about 100 years ago .
10 Though it has remained in much the same place , it has undergone very extensive modifications and these have profoundly influenced the distribution of its wildlife .
11 The growth rates of productivity in Japanese manufacturing have consistently outstripped those of its major economic rivals over the past quarter century and output per worker has increased at twice the rate recorded in other OECD states .
12 Mrs Barzach will have a much more difficult time retaining her seat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , which she has represented for only the past three years and where she is standing against the well-established local RPR mayor ( and deputy mayor of the capital ) .
13 He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment .
14 In the past , however , the spent fuel from both civil and military reactors has gone through exactly the same reprocessing line at Sellafield .
15 Devonport 's proposal to convert reclaimed land at Rosyth for oil tanker work — which it has passed to both the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Trade and Industry — initially caught the Babcock Thorn management unawares .
16 In his anguished soliloquy on awaking from what he thinks has only been a dream , we see that the hypocrite has lost for ever the advantage he has had over other people .
17 A class of special days ( and weeks ) that has survived in both the Roman and Anglican Churches is that of ‘ Ember Days ’ and ‘ Ember Weeks ’ .
18 And instead of distancing herself from her subject with the language of ‘ scientific ’ detachment , her message is one of passionate commitment to the primates she has studied for almost the whole of her adult life .
19 With a ready supply of the raw material , chalk , at hand a thriving lime burning industry has existed in both the Thames and Medway valleys for several centuries .
20 But every cave is unique — none will have formed in exactly the same way .
21 It would have stopped in exactly the same way if only one of the two had stepped on his pedal .
22 Any structural change — that is one which changes the rules of the game on the basis of which bargaining takes place — would have to come from outside the system .
23 Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out .
24 Paul 's teaching must have come with all the more force to his original hearers .
25 Hidden for centuries under plaster , the architrave of the main doorway is now revealed to be a monumental inscription from the time of the Emperor Trajan , which must have come from either the Roman baths or the imperial mint , both of which are nearby .
26 I think we shall have to look at just the last two years . ’
27 Well they 'll probably have to put at least the bone in there , it 's a bone graft .
28 Leslie Brown told us adamantly that no one could possibly have tampered with either the fodder or the water .
29 She would have reacted in exactly the same way if she had been stone-cold sober and standing in a bare room under a fluorescent light .
30 it would have gone to either the sales manager or the regional managing director of the Eastern region of at the time
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