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

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1 Dealers are confident that the market has stabilised or is even on the up-turn .
2 Last week 's leaked report revealing that five old people 's homes could close resulted in a wave of protests like this one in Woodstock yesterday.But the Director of Social Services has said that was just one piece of the jigsaw .
3 At the top of the backswing , note how the left shoulder has turned and is now in front of and slightly underneath the chin .
4 Coopers deplores what has occurred and was as much the victim as everyone else ’ .
5 Neither the court nor a Chief Constable could compel an officer to do acts which can only lawfully be done if the officer himself with reasonable cause suspects that a breach of the peace has occurred or is imminently likely to occur .
6 " The changeable international situation , " he said , " has affected and is still affecting Xinjiang 's social stability .
7 ‘ Whether the child has arrived or is yet to be born is unclear .
8 The area of cropland has peaked and is now static .
9 As the girl dances close to me I can smell her perfume and all that has gone before is completely forgotten ; the slit trenches , the mosquitoes , the wounded and my dead comrades .
10 The ability to modify and alter what has gone before is therefore a necessary part of any system .
11 The KGB has survived and is even taking on new tasks , such as distributing western food aid .
12 The only doubt about this was raised by the Court of Appeal in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 where the court specifically left open the question whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired but is merely selling the knowledge to a third party ( see p79 above ) .
13 Markby asked twice if she were cold and she knew he 'd noticed and was politely trying to find out what was wrong .
14 ‘ I should 've thought that was pretty plain . ’
15 Another im prominent toxoid vaccine which you should all have received and be regularly receiving boosters for is the tetanus vaccine , and really , a very similar situation pertains here , that the toxin is so important in the pathogenesis of disease , tetanus , that simply immunity to that one factor can lead to immunity er to the disease as a whole .
16 What this would have looked like is sometimes difficult to imagine — it may have been no more than a larger-than-average farmstead , or it may have been a palace such as those found at Yeavering and Cheddar .
17 They were actually my first choice to do the Stooges cover ( new jazz wacko John Zorn eventually thrashing through ‘ TV Eye ’ ) , but they must have thought that was too predictable .
18 They were actually my first choice to do the Stooges cover ( new jazz wacko John Zorn eventually thrashing through ‘ TV Eye ’ ) , but they must have thought that was too predictable .
19 ‘ I 'd have thought that was fairly obvious , ’ Jessamy retorted .
20 She trailed a hand along an imaginary banister , sweeping the other behind where the skirts of a ball-gown would have trailed and was so tangibly created that when she sat down on the sofa Delia Sutherland moved to make room for the folds of that gown .
21 Maybe she had achieved her present position because she was a woman breaking into a man 's world , but she would n't have survived or been so successful if she had n't been good at her job .
22 If ever there was any documentation relating to this episode , none appears to have survived or is yet to be unearthed .
23 By the 1960s the London ring 's increase had fallen and was no longer able to compensate for core losses , leading to a massive net loss in the SMLA as a whole .
24 This was much more than we had expected and was largely due to the need to raise the path to the front door , which involved relocating two man-hole covers .
25 She almost asked whether he had not been there the previous Friday but stopped , unsure whether he had forgotten or was deliberately misleading her .
26 Some members of staff at the school felt that it had suffered and was still suffering from the effects of the reorganization .
27 FitzAlan had turned and was now half sitting , half leaning against the table .
28 And the performance , both at this branch and as a spin off , our city centre branch in Street , which has benefited from us being here , and the contacts we m we 've made while been here .
29 Many of my envelopes came back ‘ Return to Sender ’ , and it was clear that most members had died or were very elderly .
30 But this — was as though Fox had died and was still dying , and had enjoyed her own kill … .
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