Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mordecai has only carried out instructions . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even though the Ministry of Defence has already drawn up plans to pull Britain 's 2,400 troops out of the danger zone swiftly , they could find themselves caught in the crossfire very quickly . |
| 6 | He has always turned out teams who , until recently , were the cream of the crop in terms of style . |
| 7 | Until recently , the word has always conjured up pictures of food , which imposed an artificial limit on the range of plants . |
| 8 | It has also scaled down payouts for redundancies , so as not to exceed the $1.5bn restructuring charge it was hit with two months ago . |
| 9 | The Lady Prioress has also sent out riders . |
| 10 | As before , Thomson , who has also put out calls for biographical material on other subjects , including S G Brown , signs himself a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , helping establish credibility with editors unaware of the fact that he started collecting original papers in 1972 . |
| 11 | William Hill said it refuses to accept wagers on the state of royal marriages and has often turned down bets on a Charles and Diana split . |
| 12 | Dr Steve Harris , who studies foxes in Bristol , has often picked up scabies , or mange . |
| 13 | The recession has cut the number of Thames 's commercial customers and has virtually killed off profits from selling redundant properties . |
| 14 | Dr Vicharn Vithayasai , from the University Hospital in Chiang Mai , northern Thailand 's biggest city , has recently carried out surveys there and in nearby towns and villages . |
| 15 | High-tech weaponry has certainly kept down casualties during the air war ( it will have less ability to do so on the ground ) . |
| 16 | She 'd no one left to fight with , and Fred , on whom she 'd always called down curses , turned into a sainted memory . |
| 17 | Having already turned down Fields 's first licence application in December 1983 , Raymond Colegate , the CAA 's commercial director and the chairman of the licensing panel , was ‘ deeply sceptical ’ of Fields 's ability to get the project airborne . |
| 18 | MPs are getting letters complaining that fathers may have already taken on commitments they ca n't get out of and they were only expecting to pay whatever the courts had fixed . |
| 19 | Many , he said , were convinced that they had had no managerial experience , yet they had successfully brought up children , run a home , and far more . |
| 20 | By resorting to a money-lender it became more difficult to conceal their embarrassment — than if they had merely run up bills with retailers . |
| 21 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 22 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 23 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 24 | In the past , Mrs Thatcher had easily fended off challenges from Tory ‘ wets ’ . |
| 25 | He had not worked out tactics to deal with what was not so much a surrender as a bid to form an immediate alliance . |
| 26 | Morton had not taken up arms previously , but he knew that some of his friends would have gone to the conventicle and would have volunteered to take part in the unequal contest against the soldiers . |
| 27 | Members of the Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) , led by Rachid Ghanouchi , were reported as saying that they had not put up candidates because of the government 's continued refusal officially to recognise the party . |
| 28 | There was a lot of teasing and we had soon thought up nicknames for each other . |
| 29 | France and Italy had also put up candidates for the post . |
| 30 | ( For " The Dry Salvages " he had even written out lists of rhyming words to assist him . ) |