Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , however , a variety of factors have rather changed this state of affairs and encouraged the search for a third road to socialism . |
| 2 | Right er number four er the National Entertainments Conference organized by the N U S. I have since secured some money from Executive Committee to send two representatives to this Committee , and it 's in the last week of the summer holidays . |
| 3 | They certainly do not justify Geoffrey Cowley 's absurdly optimistic claim in Newsweek that , ‘ They have since dispelled any doubt that apes can really understand signs ’ ( Cowley 1988 : 54 ) . |
| 4 | no , I , there 's get , a little confusion coming into this case I think , I 'm not blaming anybody , as I understand your case Mr as put to er as put to Mr , you have expressly disavowed any suggestion to this witness that there was any deliberate attempt to deceive any prospective purchaser |
| 5 | Thus executives have successfully prevented most forms of cancer from being included in the list of occupationally-induced illness , even though the documentation on carcinogenic work environments is substantial ( Epstein 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Until now , I have unfalteringly exercised that choice to postpone motherhood . |
| 7 | By thus consenting they form one body politic and it is implied in the contract that the majority have the right to conclude for the rest and let me quote for when any number of men have by the consent of every individual made a community they have thereby made that community one body with a power to act as one body which is only by the will and determination of the majority it being necessary to that which is one body to move one way a single body ca n't move in two opposite directions simultaneously . |
| 8 | They have thereby developed few class allegiances and few commitments to large-scale theories about how society is , or should be , organised . |
| 9 | I have rarely heard such stability and depth of image from a moving-coil loudspeaker and these are factors which applied , moreover , across a remarkably wide listening area . |
| 10 | ‘ I have rarely seen such elegance , such grace of line , such sobriety of colour . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have rarely known such stultifying of the personal touch between speaker and audience . ’ |
| 12 | Yet , because of other commitments , I have arguably spent less time than ever with my fish . |
| 13 | It so happens that other chemists , supporting more conventional organic ‘ primeval soup ’ theories , have long accepted that clay minerals would have been a help . |
| 14 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 15 | The above examples have all assumed some prescience on the part of the investor . |
| 16 | Recent decisions have all supported this view . |
| 17 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind , ’ she says , ‘ that we have all lived many lives before and that we have an individual life-force which never dies but chooses to come into incarnation at various times . |
| 18 | Some are the familiar ones that we have all seen many times , but most will be new to the majority of readers . |
| 19 | The previous examples of the use of bioceramics have all included some dependence on mechanical strength and uses have focused on replacing diseased or damaged tissues . |
| 20 | Robin Fox ( 1971 , 1972 ) and Lional Tiger ( 1969 ) in influential books have perhaps pushed this approach to an extreme , but they have thereby generated an important renewal of interest in biology among anthropologists . |
| 21 | ‘ We have perhaps exceeded most people 's expectations by the way we have played this season , yet we are very conscious that we still have one more game to go , ’ he reasoned . |
| 22 | Many converters of churches which incorporate this arrangement have naturally regarded this space as a zone in which living-rooms might be accommodated , and the beneficial use of such roof space has largely been made possible by the widespread employment of standard reversible ventilating and double-glazed roof windows . |
| 23 | ‘ I have so enjoyed this afternoon . |
| 24 | Erm but I just thought that it is appropriate in the circumstances because we have basically provided this facility , that there should be erm |
| 25 | I mean I think it 's , I mean I I have personally asked this question a number of times and pressed for everybody to be paid properly in inverted commas , I E monthly , but this is an assumption about a certain lifestyle and a certain way of budgeting which er I do n't think we have necessarily the right or , you know it 's not necessarily our |
| 26 | My diesel shortly is a terrible smoker , I have only had this vehicle for three months ( 1985 vintage ) but have covered about 3000 miles and tried all of the adjustments to reduce its habit , The clock reads 30,000 miles and the distributor pump is adjusted to its maximum in an attempt to reduce the smoke , but I can not stop it . |
| 27 | Such spectacular animals have obviously attracted much attention , and one might suppose that the problem of how they lived would have been satisfactorily solved long ago . |
| 28 | ‘ We have obviously had more successes in the Shankill where we frustrated many UFF operations . |
| 29 | ‘ You made an undertaking with Ronni to do so many hours a day and you have flagrantly disregarded that undertaking . ’ |
| 30 | Indirectly , we have already explored this way of thinking in our consideration of the proposal that pragmatics is " meaning minus semantics " , and the idea that some distinction from sociolinguistics is necessary was responsible for some of the dissatisfaction with a number of the definitions above . |