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

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1 Some former course members have since obtained fulltime teaching posts in adult education .
2 Richmond have since sought help from Middlesex in pursuing the issue while Chilcott , dismissed for the fourth time in his career with Bath , awaits the result of tonight 's meeting of the Somerset Disciplinary Committee .
3 A PRIVATE member 's bill to introduce payments for Crown servants who were exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons tests and have since contracted leukaemia and other cancers , and to the dependants of those who have died , was presented to the Commons by Mr Bob Clay ( Lab .
4 According to the magazine , 29 of the top 50 paper millionaires in 1988 have since lost money on paper .
5 The great leap , however , took place long ago , round about 1930 , and private-eye stories have since produced progeny of their own , much as the detective story produced that chain of books culminating in the crime novel .
6 The affluent clients of the smartest shops of Hong Kong , Paris , New York , London or Tokyo respond to the same qualities in ivory as those which attracted Palaeolithic mammoth hunters up to thirty thousand years ago and have continued to beguile all who have since had access to the material .
7 ‘ I have since taken maternity leave for a second time and now also work to some extent from home .
8 The problem of determining by non-invasive means which left handers have right sided speech still resists solution .
9 Yet we have little detailed knowledge of how individual farm businesses and their associated patterns of occupancy are changing or how these changes influence those farm management decisions that lead to alterations to the agricultural landscape .
10 This approach is only worth attempting if full ab initio methods are used , as semi-empirical methods such as CNDO , INDO and MNDO are incapable of dealing with ions in states which have incompletely filled core orbitals .
11 Do we really want to go down in history as the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies , which have successfully built brand names and franchises of high repute over a century or more … ?
12 In the last year I have been helping residents with a variety of local problems and have successfully applied pressure on Oxfordshire County Council to act on the problems caused by the gypsies at the end of the Abingdon Road , near the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre .
13 Student members who have successfully completed Part A or holders of qualifications which give entry to the Professional Diploma are eligible to apply for Intermediate Membership .
14 The following modules from the 1989/90 Catalogue will continue to be available in 1991/92 for centres who have successfully sought approval from SCOTVEC .
15 Attention should be drawn to Foresman 's comment that the US Geological Survey ( USGS ) ( at the EROS Data Centre ) have successfully linked ARC/INFO to a model of groundwater flow ( Foresman 1986 : 260 ) .
16 The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s .
17 Two relatively recent developments have effectively created information technology .
18 Jury acquittals in obscenity cases , beginning with " Lady Chatterley 's Lover " , have effectively secured freedom for art and saved literature from the application of that controversial law .
19 In modern times we have effectively eliminated possibility 3 by incorporating it within our scheme : Quantum mechanics is essentially a theory of what we do not know and can not predict .
20 Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) .
21 If the reality is that through the inadequacies of the governance structure and of other pressures for conformity the directors have effectively wrested power to pursue goals which diverge from those preferred by the shareholders , then the necessary legitimating connection with property rights is not made out .
22 But many commentators have long regarded synergy as a will-o'-the-wisp , arguing for the strategy of critical mass in selected global markets that ICI has belatedly adopted .
23 Archaeologists have long ridiculed ley lines — the idea that prehistoric sites were deliberately aligned .
24 I have long coveted dictamnus in both white and pink forms .
25 The publicity given to the conference is important because both the propaganda department and the People 's Daily , the official voice of the Communist Party , have long preferred stability and ideological orthodoxy to the no-holds-barred economic reforms favoured by Deng .
26 For example in Germany , works councils have long had access to resources to investigate design of work systems under the Quality of Working Life .
27 You have long considered music to be a therapeutic force in modern society .
28 Certain newspapers and television programmes have long enjoyed surname humour — the mid-wife called Miss Stork , the taxi-driver Mr Hanger — but few such features have unearthed a Mr England , Miss English or Mrs Albion whose character is , in some obscure way , an embodiment of the national one .
29 Some LEAs have long collated information obtained from schools in such a way that the results might be described as performance indicators .
30 Mr Cojuangco comes from one of the families that have long controlled business and political affairs in the Philippines , and to some extent still do .
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