Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All rich , strange and remote , as if it had never happened or had happened to another person . |
| 2 | Most of us know , or have encountered in some way , an example of someone who speaks his mind , and does so with such gentleness and grace he rarely alienates anyone . |
| 3 | For all the first-glance goriness that has led to several bans , Jim Rose 's surreal sideshow is too fantastical and funny to be taken seriously , says Craig McLean |
| 4 | The new feature that has emerged from this study of the parallelistic couplet is not so much the identification of a particular relationship of the lines of the couplet ( greater precision ) as a movement towards a statement of relationships within the poetic couplet . |
| 5 | One theme that has emerged throughout this book , however , and which has been reinforced by the analysis presented in this chapter , is the importance of religion in determining people 's political identity . |
| 6 | The controversy that has arisen over this issue in recent days emphasises the importance of proceeding with this investigation with all possible speed and effectiveness . |
| 7 | The close association that has existed over many years between geophysicists and engineering geologists in multidisciplinary projects at BGS will be enhanced by bringing these staff into one group . |
| 8 | The Full Plans method is the old system that has existed for many years , whereby detailed plans of your proposal are submitted in duplicate , along with an application form . |
| 9 | Books on railways are generally expensive in these inflated days but considering the amount of work that has gone into this volume and the specialist nature of the work then £7.95 represents excellent value . |
| 10 | The title of this work suggests that it is an essay in the sociology of transport , a subject that has crept into some degree and other courses at University level . |
| 11 | Mr X is managing director of a limited company that has traded for several years . |
| 12 | Secondly we have not heard of anything that has changed in this county since nineteen eighty sufficient to warrant or justify in this alteration the addition of a policy the effect of which , one one with a similar effect having been thrown out at that time . |
| 13 | On economic development , we have failed to pursue the policies of partnership between Government and industry which are commonplace elsewhere in Europe and which involve not only management but trade unions and workers ' representatives in a much more positive way than anything that has happened under this Government . |
| 14 | In view of everything that has happened since that time , this distinction is important . |
| 15 | There was one in America , for example , where a hundred people died because a sulphalidomide preparation was wrongly formulated , erm and the biggest disaster that has happened in this country was in fact with asthma aerosols , where they were misused . |
| 16 | Everything that has transpired in this room has been recorded . |
| 17 | Some 45 per cent of British households drink water that has passed at some stage through lead pipes . |
| 18 | In short , an action succeeds when it fulfils ( i.e. achieves the object of ) the desire that has combined with some belief to cause that action . |
| 19 | Our society too still has recognized ways of marking the change in status that has occurred for some people . |
| 20 | IT IS a fact that having to deal with all aspects of VAT can give rise to considerable costs for business . |
| 21 | IT is a fact that having to deal with all aspects of VAT can give rise to considerable costs for businesses . |
| 22 | What happens is that having to serve on many Cabinet and other committees , anyone other than a top-grade and experienced minister tends to use the brief he has been given . |
| 23 | It is conceded by Mr. Leonard that having come to this conclusion , it is unnecessary now to consider further any of the other grounds of appeal which do not arise , and we refrain from doing so . |
| 24 | If we did n't know that terrible things like war had happened , or why they had happened , it would be so easy for us as a country to continue with the same policies that had led to these mistakes in the past . |
| 25 | The design and planning that had gone into these places was minimal . |
| 26 | He scooped a handful of marble out of a bannister as if it were plasticine , and briefly enjoyed the traces of the many fingers that had brushed over this patch of cold stone down the years . |
| 27 | And his notes for the course on lyric ( prepared in the spring of 1869 ) show him devoting ten times more space to the dithyramb , of which next to nothing had survived from antiquity , than to the epinician , the kind immortalized by Pindar and the only kind that had survived in any bulk . " |
| 28 | It was as if some authoritative being had decided that from that moment the names that had applied to such objects as soap , cheese , tree or book were to be exchanged for others , and all signs of delight registered by temper tantrums . |
| 29 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 30 | Answer guide : The point here is that at the date of the balance sheet the business did not own the asset nor had it any right to its use as all that had happened at that date was an order had been placed which could easily be cancelled . |