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

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1 Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film .
2 He has used Cow Gum but this has eventually resulted in a yellow stain coming through the paper .
3 Herman Bosman , a friend of mine , has written about one of his regular clients , who has long resided in a mental hospital .
4 At the other end of all this research is the sick child , whose life has suddenly altered in a most dramatic way .
5 Whatever its merits , however , it will have to live in the shadow of W T Stearn , whose magisterial Stearn 's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners is already out in a revised edition ( Cassell , 1992 , £16.99 , 0 304 34149 5 ) , and whose Botanical Latin has just appeared in a 4th edition ( David & Charles , £25 0 7153 0052 0 ) .
6 She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov .
7 The secretary , who also organizes the church flower rota , has just resigned in a huff , because she says the Sunday school has taken over some shelves in the vestry flower-vase cupboard without asking , so I have to take the minutes . ’
8 The hon. Member for Edinburgh , South ( Mr. Griffiths ) has just spoken in a debate on a United Kingdom Bill and is entirely entitled to do so .
9 This subject has already explored in a series of articles for this magazine throughout 1991 .
10 The book has already featured in a double page spread in the Independent on Sunday , and given the importance and enduring fascination of the subject , further coverage is expected .
11 Oily fish is a topic this page has already covered in a previous issue , so you 'll know that a regular meal of oily fish — herring , mackerel , trout and the like — can actually halve your risk of having a heart attack .
12 Ayia Marina has already put in a proper sewerage system .
13 Costco has already put in a second application to answer some of the criticisms .
14 In July 1980 a dispute at the Lenin shipyards in the Baltic port of Gdansk led to the formation of an inter-strike committee and shortly afterwards to the establishment of Solidarity , the first ( and so far the last ) genuinely self-governing trade union that has ever existed in a communist-ruled country .
15 Includes every cricketer who has ever played in a first class match in the British Isles .
16 Anyone who has ever participated in a voluntary organisation , youth work or parents ' association will know what a central place is taken by jumble sales and selling raffle tickets ( see Table 9.1 ) .
17 DEC says the announcement will feature ‘ more systems than the company has ever announced in a single day . ’
18 ANY Scot who has ever sat in a drafty hall , feeling a mounting sense of doom while staring blankly at an exam paper has probably cursed Edinburgh-based Pillans & Wilson for collaborating in their misery by printing the question papers .
19 In the past , many of us at WASL have worked closely with FAN which has always operated in an entirely different way from ourselves , offering another important voice for women in the arts .
20 It is noticeable that though Derrida is a philosopher , albeit one interested in literature , and has always worked in an academic-philosophical context , even if on the margins of the subject , his major impact in North America has been in literature departments .
21 Evolution in bilateral animals has usually consisted in a tendency towards more effective integration of segments .
22 Mr. T. has also said in an affidavit that ‘ there has never been anything whatsoever in [ Miss T. 's ] actions which led me to believe that she wished to become a Jehovah 's Witness . ’
23 1973 ) , has also resulted in a closer relationship between the disenfranchised and the solicitors .
24 Lord Hartington said : ‘ This highly successful campaign to find a fair solution to the VAT problems besetting the breeding industry has also resulted in a tremendous boost for racing .
25 Inner London is dominated by teaching hospitals and medical schools and has traditionally taken in a significant number of patients from outside its area .
26 In fact , media education has often developed in a very explicit way concepts which are of general importance in English .
27 She has now called in an exorcist from Beverly Hills to get rid of her celebrity ghosts .
28 Do n't miss Fay Weldon 's complex , clever story The Cloning Of Joanna May , which centres on a woman who discovers she has unwittingly participated in a genetic experiment .
29 Its collaboration with Evans & Sutherland has reportedly resulted in a breakthrough 3D graphics accelerator family that 's two to three times faster than anything SGI currently has .
30 No form of socialism has yet prevailed in a contest with nationalism , and no other social movement has directed its efforts against nationalism at all on a world scale .
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