Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] in [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One must pay tribute to her dedication , and the gratitude of all connected with the Club , past , present and future is her due for the patient hours she has obviously spent in researching club records , the Henley Standard and personal reminiscences of many people who have been associated with the Club 's story . |
| 2 | Kelly 's clumsy handling of the affair has done immense damage to the authority of his own office and he has only succeeded in attracting more attention to the ineptitude with which football is run . |
| 3 | Meanwhile in West Germany , Grundig has finally succeeded in building a video recorder with auto-reverse . |
| 4 | where the tenant has persistently delayed in paying rent which has fallen due ; |
| 5 | Now it is a fact that this creature so recently-come among us — gross , obscene and incapable of manipulating cutlery as it is — has nevertheless succeeded in getting itself equipped , just like big brother , with its own plastic spoon . |
| 6 | However , if the original social and education objectives of the course have not been met it has nevertheless succeeded in tapping the hidden intellectual and educational potential of many working-class men and women . |
| 7 | May I support what my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Selly Oak ( Mr. Beaumont-Dark ) has just said in urging the Government to give serious consideration to the establishment of a Securities and Exchange Commission in Britain . |
| 8 | But the pot of gold simply does not exist as he has already discovered in trying to pay for Labour 's initial promises . |
| 9 | These holes will probe the vertical relations between types of rock whose horizontal relations nature has already revealed in creating the Troodos massif . |
| 10 | And the University of Tokyo has already succeeded in developing a practical self-repairing photocopier — good news for anyone who is frequently frustrated in their attempts to use one . |
| 11 | For the moment , the ever more active opposition remains dominated by intellectuals ; it has hardly succeeded in joining hands with the workers . |
| 12 | Lakefield Canoe Club has always specialised in running wild water rivers and this is not the first of the clubs pioneering ventures into little known canoeing waters . |
| 13 | It has also helped in looking at the functions of the business in outline . |
| 14 | It has also helped in studying the kinetics of SNS+ cycloaddition reactions with nitriles , by monitoring , as a function of time , the diminishing reduction peak of SNS+ and the increasing peak of the 1,3 compound . |
| 15 | Yet Poulantzas ' wish to argue hypothetically is peculiarly revealing ; for as well as drawing attention to the slight explanatory power of his theory it raises the third of the questions with which I began — the question of whether he has really succeeded in casting off voluntarism . |
| 16 | But Mr Lawson has now succeeded in doubling rates since the spring of last year ; we are into the second half of this parliament ; and there can be no certainty that this is the top of the ladder . |
| 17 | But this argument is weakened when democratic arrangements break down and are not replaced by socialism , as has frequently occurred in industrializing countries . |
| 18 | The Dovercourt branch of the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders has volunteered to carry out the work free of charge and has even joined in raising funds . |
| 19 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 20 | A strong sense of regional identity characterises the Boards and has undoubtedly assisted in breaking down the traditional divisions between capital and labour . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , despite the weaker Merseyside economy , MDC has undoubtedly succeeded in transforming the docklands ' image from that of a decaying twilight zone into a popular and fashionable urban environment . |
| 22 | The removal of organs for transplantation is permitted either if the deceased person has previously indicated in writing his willingness to be a donor , for example by signing an organ donor card , or if , when enquiries are made of the surviving relatives , no objections are raised . |
| 23 | The difficulty , however , is to determine whether or not the transaction between the debtor company and the creditor is such as to make the latter a debentureholder , for no one has yet succeeded in defining ‘ debenture . ’ |
| 24 | Although to my knowledge no digital scanner has yet succeeded in penetrating the ravages of gall , that most seductive and most lethal of enhancing media so widely used by 19th-century archivists , electronic cameras and image processors are working effectively on fire damage , glue and other forms of obliteration . |
| 25 | Well aware that no Japanese maker has yet succeeded in making a serious impression here . |
| 26 | Macaulay has certainly grown in acting stature if not in height . |
| 27 | the Carrier has specifically agreed in writing to carry any such items and |
| 28 | In foreign and security policy , and in interior-ministry collaboration , the commission will have no monopoly of proposal ; nor will it have much say in carrying out policy . |
| 29 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 30 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |