Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AXA has since ploughed almost $100m more into Equitable Life , which is recovering from heavy losses on its property portfolio , and reckons it will soon see a good return on its investment . |
| 2 | The Southern Centre has successfully sued both Mississippi and Florida on this basis and they now have to pay $25 an hour to defence lawyers . |
| 3 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 4 | The President Group of Taipei , Taiwan has effectively paid about $150m for the Wang Laboratories Inc operations in Taiwan . |
| 5 | The President Group of Taipei , Taiwan has effectively paid about $150m for the Wang Laboratories Inc operations in Taiwan . |
| 6 | He uses around 100 cubic metres per year and estimates he has only saved about £10 each year because his house has a relatively low rateable value . |
| 7 | Mordecai has only carried out instructions . |
| 8 | Given the claims made for Basquiat 's historical importance in the show 's catalogue , it is surprising that the retrospective has only signed up sites at the Menil Collection in Houston ( 11 March-9 May , 1993 ) , the Des Moines Art Center ( 22 May-15 August ) , and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama ( 18 November-9 January , 1994 ) . |
| 9 | Much of the taxpayers ' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices , effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire . |
| 10 | Although Bill Gates has apparently firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , they still are n't finalised , according to the company . |
| 11 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |
| 12 | It is no accident that people in AI rarely draw flow-charts , and it is a cliché of programming in LISP that if one finds oneself drawing a flow-chart , one has not understood how LISP works . |
| 13 | Whatever the merits of these arguments , there can be little doubt that for much of its existence the LDDC has not sought out partnership arrangements with elected local bodies — it has pursued market-led strategies whose impact on local communities has proved far from advantageous ; it has largely ignored local planning procedures ; and there has been little public accountability of its Policies and spending . |
| 14 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 15 | But Mr Kelly has not given up hope . |
| 16 | Police in the Irish Republic have been alerted but the RUC has not given up hope of finding the chestnut thoroughbred which romped to victory in the all-Ireland derby two years ago and up to 100 other races . |
| 17 | He has not given up hope that he can recover in time , saying : ‘ I 've not ruled myself out of it yet I 'm just looking forward and hoping I can be out there . ’ |
| 18 | The debtor says that she has not carried on business in this country since 8 May 1987 , the date upon which the business was sold . |
| 19 | During the past 10 months of follow up this patient , who had bled on 11 occasions over the previous six months , has not required further admission with recurrent haemorrhage . |
| 20 | Not if I dare say so , if it is an opinion expressed by an onlooker who has not experienced either hearing loss or the unhelpful reactions of the unenlightened . |
| 21 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 22 | Die Hard director John McTiernan is putting one together at Fox ( ’ Grab that Uzi , Maid Marion ! ’ ) , and production company Morgan Creek has just shelled out £1.2m for Prince Of Thieves , a reworking of the Sherwood Forest legend . |
| 23 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 24 | The EC Commission has just put forward proposals to this effect . |
| 25 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 26 | But since it has already written off £5 billion worth of debts and thrown in an extra £1.6 billion ‘ green dowry ’ , that means that the entire industry — with thousands of miles of pipework , reservoirs , leisure land , sewage works and so forth — is being given away for minus £1.4 billion . |
| 27 | According to official sources , over the last twenty years the country has already lost nearly 80% of its icons or about 24 million pieces , some of great importance to the national heritage . |
| 28 | It has already raised over £360,000 under the BES and a further £350,000 from non-BES investors . |
| 29 | She has already raised over £500 towards the cost of this enterprise . |
| 30 | The idea is that all computers must conform to Russian standards , and the Committee has already singled out Summit Systems ( a Chips & Technologies Inc joint venture ) , the French-Italian-Russian joint venture Interquadro ; and Intermicro , a Russian-Austrian joint venture . |