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

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31 Harper , who is the cousin of the former West Indian Test player , Roger Harper , has verbally accepted the offer of a contract with the Prestwick club for the 1993 season .
32 Stratus Computer Inc has duly expanded its XA/R line of Intel Corp 80860 RISC-based Continuous Processing Systems with nine new models , claiming about 2.5 times the performance of comparably-priced members of the 68000 family-based XA2000 Series ( UX No 391 ) .
33 Whilst ICL has duly announced that it is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix MPX for multi-processing , Open Desktop environment and the SCO communications suite on its Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers , the OfficePower-on-SCO validation work — see above — was actually carried out on an Apricot Computers Ltd box .
34 McLean , Virginia-based Excalibur Technologies Corp , has duly launched versions of its flagship PixTex/EFS document imaging and retrieval software for Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp RS/6000 Unix workstations .
35 Sweeping censorship and intimidation are common , and the violent destruction of printing plants has forcibly removed some of Zaire 's most respected newspapers and magazines .
36 The IAEA has vigorously denied all the accusations , describing some of them as " absolutely outrageous " .
37 At various times in the past a ‘ younger generation ’ has vigorously asserted its claims to cultural and political leadership ; a notable recent example , which helped to reawaken the interest of social scientists in the problem of generations , being the youth movements ( especially the student movement ) and ‘ youth culture ’ of the 1960s , which had , for a time at least , and perhaps in a more enduring way , a considerable impact upon cultural and political life in the industrial countries .
38 I know of the proposal to which my hon. Friend refers and I know that he has vigorously represented the concerns of his constituents .
39 My hon. Friend has vigorously represented the interests of views of those who may be affected by this project .
40 My Department has vigorously pursued reported delays with the authorities concerned .
41 The Commission 's record on attacking cartels and concerted practices is impressive , for it has vigorously pursued and successfully secured the termination of a substantial number and variety of concerted practices .
42 They concluded the company , which has bitterly contested the Fayeds ownership of the stores group , had ‘ taken the law into own hands ’ but cleared it of contempt .
43 The report has bitterly disappointed the mother of Tristan Watkins , who was found dead in a pool 11 days after being discharged .
44 The attack has bitterly disappointed Thames Valley police , who were hopeful that the disturbances which plagued the estate last year had virtually vanished .
45 The issue has bitterly divided the community surrounding the common ever since the complex was first mooted .
46 Redford , looking craggy and bemused , has thankfully jettisoned the po-faced sermonising of such bloomers as Havana and returned to what he does best : sprinkling an intelligent script with finely tuned , anarchic quips and exhibiting twinkling vulnerability to the ladies .
47 Against these factors , one must recall that in the Northern Tier countries ( Poland , GDR , Czechoslovakia ) , the earmarking of the national armed forces for participation in the cutting edge of offensive war against NATO has rarely provoked dissent from their commanders .
48 Mr Mitterrand has rarely missed an occasion to underline Germany 's obligation to make amends by arranging joint ceremonies on Franco-German battlefields .
49 But Mitchum has rarely raised any kind of hell .
50 The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent .
51 This writer has never attended a more populated exhibition of Old Masters and has rarely overheard so much intelligent discussion , particularly from ‘ ordinary ’ visitors .
52 Since the problems at Strangeways , prison violence has rarely appeared in the headlines , but John Bartell , chairman of the Prison Officers Association says that does n't mean violence in our jails has decreased .
53 In fact there has never been two-shift working at Kalmar and , because of the downturn in the car market after the 1973 oil price rise , production has rarely reached 30,000 per year at that plant .
54 There are slow tempos , though an overall timing of 55 minutes is not unduly extravagant , but the predominant impression is of the symphony 's dramatic conflicts and of Sinopoli 's remarkable ear for the subtlest details of instrumental colour : Elgar 's scoring has rarely sounded more translucent and fine-spun .
55 Funk has rarely sounded so heavy , or rock so groovy .
56 Funk has rarely sounded so heavy , or rock so groovy .
57 Sir Arthur Nicholson , a contemporary observer noted : ‘ should the peasants excited by socialist and anarchist agitators be led on … and should the working classes simultaneously rise in the towns there will be a catastrophe such as history has rarely witnessed ’ .
58 Britain 's growth rate has rarely exceeded that on the continent by more than one percentage point .
59 President Momoh has rarely made such a controversial decision .
60 One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny .
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