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

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1 In the United Kingdom the legislature has effectively long since surrendered the power of the purse to the executive , but that is far from being the case in the United States .
2 Mr Honecker , 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation , has so far flatly rejected all notions of change .
3 It has so far only managed to produce a sample P5 running at 40MHz — just two thirds of the 66MHz speed Intel intended — and can not get the thing to work at a faster rate .
4 A feeling of mystery irradiates the scene at the house which he has so far only glimpsed from a distance :
5 There is a deep feeling among those who practise fundamental science a feeling that has so far always proved reliable — that the way to true understanding is the one that satisfies the canons of economy and elegance ; the way which , in a word , is mathematically beautiful .
6 British Rail has so far totally failed to do so .
7 Although the concept is proven at club level , it has so far never found favour in international competition .
8 They can be understood as mental projections of all those mind-searing fears mankind has all too frequently suffered .
9 ‘ My father has only just fully recovered from his grief .
10 The body requires food for a number of reasons , which scientific study has only relatively recently revealed .
11 At a minimum , Solidarity is expected to present more than one list to the voters at the next general election — if it has not already formally split by then .
12 As these notes are being written he has not yet officially decided to shelve teaching .
13 The majority of the analysts interviewed believe that the cash flow statement is an improvement on the funds flow statement , although it has not yet radically changed analysts ' approach to their work .
14 Its powers , however , do include a measure of budgetary control and the Commission is responsible to it and can , in the final analysis , be dismissed by it , so that in political terms it enjoys a potential influence of considerable substance which , however , it has not yet fully developed .
15 Legislation has not only so multiplied that it is now the characteristic activity of the modern state , but it has been addressed to complicated matters which have increased the complexity and bulk of individual statutes so that they often go unread even by the legislators who pass them .
16 As things stand , sadly , Bailey , one of only 13 homegrown batsmen to begin the summer brandishing a career average in excess of 40 , has not so much tripped between two stools as toppled into a black hole .
17 To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic .
18 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati ( b. 1919 ) used to be a prominent name in a certain music publisher 's catalogue , but his music has not so far achieved wide circulation , or extensive recording .
19 Most of it happened thanks to tireless negotiations with opera houses , TV crews and recording companies in the west , but it has not so far turned out to be anything like a pact with the devil .
20 that this conference congratulates our Bolshevik comrades of Russia on their splendid efforts to bring about a general peace , and their unflinching opposition to the brigands of international capital , though we deplore the fact that their efforts to stir the workers of all the belligerents to revolutionary action has not so far met with success , yet we promise to do all in our power to awaken the proletariat of this country to class consciousness so that a speedy end may overtake the tyranny of capital .
21 The government has not so far given ground on Mozambique , and has insisted that it is committed to keeping its troops in Cambodia .
22 Disorder in the Chamber or the galleries — or even the blazoning of slogans — has not so far created the problems that some had feared .
23 Many materials have been produced for different languages by individual teachers : these have been shown to succeed in the very specific circumstances facing a particular teacher/author in his or her classroom , but it has not so far proved possible to generalise from the successes in terms of easily accessible materials usable by different teachers under differing circumstances .
24 it has not so far provided any really noticeable challenge to the Secretary of State 's views .
25 To the people of his little island , two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide , ‘ Isle of Muck ’ fetched a tailor from the mainland twice a year and a blacksmith from the Isle of Eigg ( Johnson has not so far reflected upon the name of the laird of Eigg ) .
26 The government has not always fully funded the nationally agreed pay awards , leaving health authorities to fund part of the increase from existing budgets .
27 Mechanization has not therefore necessarily involved any decrease in job satisfaction among farm workers .
28 As Leo XIII has already so clearly set forth : ‘ …
29 Man in his feelings towards man has now pretty well made up his mind on that head ; but in his choice of mountains probably he may like the tyrant best . ’
30 Mid /Ε/; has now almost totally replaced low /Ε/; in ‘ long ’ contexts ( pre-voiced stop , pre-sonorant + voiced stop , and pre-fricative ) .
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