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

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1 However , the latest amendments to the Building Regulations require much higher standards of insulation than ever before and have also belatedly recognised the problems that over-insulation can cause as far as condensation is concerned — both inside the house itself and also within the building 's structure .
2 In the Bristol area , Willses have given donations to Clifton College ( where many of them were educated ) and have also successfully launched an educational experiment at Rendcomb College in Gloucestershire .
3 Officials , wary of the effects the soggy going could have on horses tackling a long hilly course , have taken the precaution of cutting the fences from 38 to 34 and have also slightly reduced the length of the course .
4 People have entered its secret paths and entrances and have either never returned or , if they were fortunate enough to do so , came out with their minds mazed , their wits scattered . ’
5 We are therefore exploring opportunities for divesting it from the group and have already successfully negotiated a number of disposals , including the sale of its processed meats division .
6 Significant works which have appeared in Latin America have not yet been translated ; and the Asian studies published are still provisional and have thus not contributed either substantively or ideologically to communication studies in the South .
7 Influential advocates of existing religions have persistently resisted the use of reason being applied to the word ‘ 'god ’ , and have thus inevitably ensured the ultimate failure of those religions .
8 On the occasions I have played this course as the guest of a member , I have never had to queue to start play , and have rarely even seen other players on the course .
9 Some licensees have seen catering as a profitable sideline and invested their own cash and other resources into developing it , while others have either not been interested or have lacked the capital to do so , and have accordingly only provided minimum facilities .
10 Similarly , the interglacial periods have not been of the same duration and have presumably not resulted in equal melting of the ice .
11 CCTV made no criticism of the ways the rules have affected their editorial discretion ; indeed , they have interpreted them pretty freely , and have recently even used close-ups of the Chairmen , Members and witnesses .
12 European governments have tended to take a more lenient view of merger activity and have sometimes actively encouraged it .
13 But I am so fond of the people in A Wreath of Roses and have so lately re-read it , that I am perhaps tiresomely asking you to do the same thing again .
14 The 1993 editions are therefore concentrating on different areas of the world and have so far covered the Middle East and the United States of America .
15 The children sit for normal exams at the local school and have so far maintained a necessary standard .
16 Ministers have been worried about reactions among voters and among Conservative Mps and have so far shown little interest in pushing the more radical free-market policies advocated by the Adam Smith Institute and IEA .
17 These people depend on public transport , and have certainly not experienced a ‘ price holiday ’ .
18 ‘ People always comment on the large number of pictures , but we 've always displayed things on the walls and have never particularly liked putting up flowery wallpaper — or wallpaper at all , ’ Catherine explains .
19 They have concentrated almost exclusively on public housing and have never really challenged owner-occupation as a form of tenure , or the quality of housing and its organisation and control .
20 When Manly-Warringah dropped out of the chase , St George stepped up the pressure and have never really let off .
21 Further , recall Channon 's argument that many such multi-unit enterprises in Britain have , over recent years , found the ‘ functional ’ model of organisation — i.e. the monolithic top-down hierarchy — to be too inflexible and have quite deliberately changed over to a multidivisional form , reforming the managerial apparatus to restrict the role of the general office and permit a greater degree of autonomy for the management of the operating units .
22 They went to give emergency help during the height of the oilspill disaster and have only just returned after setting up an animal hospital .
23 The British firms were forced into defensive mergers and have now almost disappeared .
24 In Britain the reforms which were introduced in the White Paper Working for Patients in 1989 were never widely understood and have still not won public support .
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