Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sinead has since said of her time at Grianan : ‘ I have never , and probably never will again , experienced such panic and terror and agony over anything . ’ |
| 2 | Of the 18 patients who were alive at short term follow up , one has since died of coronary disease ; a second patient with coronary disease died of carcinoma of the lung ; and four further surviving patients have angiographic evidence of disease . |
| 3 | After sharpening the other end , I had a long needle , which has since proved of value in a number of other jobs . |
| 4 | Fujitsu Ltd says it has successfully implemented of the world 's fastest Gallium Arsenide gate array . |
| 5 | If the renowned sciences of the ancient Indian sages consisted of all these extravagant follies , mankind has indeed been deceived in the exalted opinion it has long entertained of their wisdom . |
| 6 | One has only to think of the range of services to which an old person may or may not be entitled to see that , even if power is in general exercised responsibly , old people and their informal carers are particularly vulnerable to professional neglect , abuse of power or , more often and more excusably , to inexpert or biased assessment . |
| 7 | One has only to think of the way in which the Shah of Persia reinforced his position by claiming direct descent from the Achaemenids of the third century BC , to give depth to a genealogy that in fact started with his father — a Cossack officer — assuming the throne in 1920 when the previous dynasty collapsed ( see Avery , 1965 ) ; or the use in Britain of the ‘ historical ’ roots of the Royal Family to support such current political structures as the House of Lords . |
| 8 | One has only to think of the British motorcycle industry and its once-prime position to see the folly of believing you can sustain a world leading position without constant innovation . |
| 9 | One has only to think of the remarkable story of growing , harvesting , and weaving cotton with its social and industrial history to realize the enormous learning potential of such a project . |
| 10 | One has only to think of the Romantic period where poets became their own heroes , and their lives were seen as part of their poetic output . |
| 11 | One has only to think of the variety of positions that can be taken with respect to qualitative and quantitative research . |
| 12 | One has only to think of the time it took and what was necessary to develop the now largely taken-for-granted temperature scales ; an effort involving not only technological developments , but also developments in physics , thermodynamics , mathematics , and more . |
| 13 | One has only to think of the simple arpeggios and ostinatos based on triads in Les Illuminations ( 1939 ) , or the seemingly effortless , tuneful setting of well-XXXX known poetry in the Serenade ( 1943 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway , it amazes me that none of you has apparently thought of comparing the print-outs of yesterday with today 's work . |
| 15 | It seems the lost little boy behind the chicken mask has finally come of age . |
| 16 | ONE OF the first railway privatisations of the century has finally come of age with the clearance of a unique hire purchase agreement with British Rail . |
| 17 | ( 198 ) above , for example , is uttered by a young lady who is recounting to her horrified mother the experience she has just had of being thrown into prison and badly treated after being arrested in a bar brawl . |
| 18 | Head comes in , has already thought of this , and agrees to organize a collection from staff for fruit or whatever . |
| 19 | ‘ Bill Martin , chief UK economist at Phillips and Drew , has already spoken of the need for an independent watchdog to ‘ protect the interests of non-Treasury use of economic data ’ . |
| 20 | We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia , and she tells us to be quiet . |
| 21 | The show exhibitor 's horse ‘ has presence and a smart way of going' ; the pony clubber 's horse may be ‘ willing and lovable' ; whereas the horse dealer 's horse has every virtue that anyone has ever heard of : ‘ What ya want , she 's got ! ’ |
| 22 | Yet outside the computing industry who has ever heard of Intel ? |
| 23 | WHO HAS ever heard of a popular tax The American colonists certainly took exception to Britain 's tea levy in 1773 . |
| 24 | BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them . |
| 25 | The sad fact remains that , though hoolock gibbons are indigenous to Burma , no one has ever heard of any captive-breeding programme for them there . |
| 26 | Very slender ideas with which to cover such large areas , very slender indeed , but nobody has ever complained of monotony ; rather we are filled with wonder by an experience so moving and poetic . |
| 27 | It 's so delicious , you 'll wonder why no one has ever thought of it before ! |
| 28 | No one has ever spoken of the child who must have been born to Dierdriu , and who had given birth to himself and Grainne . |
| 29 | Neneh Cherry , daughter of a restless soul , has always dreamt of a place called home , ‘ that happy little space where I can be free ’ . |
| 30 | But , along with the other twelves in this column , New Element 's single spits from the speakers with the sort of beefy sound the UK has always dreamed of achieving . |