Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 2 | Townsend , who has only just returned to Premiership action for new club Aston Villa , said : ‘ It has been a slight worry but I 'm in no pain and after today 's training I know I 'll definitely play . ’ |
| 3 | While it might look a bit strange , even antiquated , to anyone who has only ever thought of guitar tuners as pocket sized oblong boxes with LEDs or a needle and a retail price of around forty quid , the Peterson 's ability to accurately tune any musical instrument is known throughout the music industry . |
| 4 | This gripping drama owes much to the shades of menace hinted at in Caffrey 's Man , and the semi-hysterical flutterings of O'Mahoney 's King , who has long since toppled from his throne . |
| 5 | It is a fitting conclusion that God , who has so clearly guided at every stage , should set his seal on the marriage in the deep love of Isaac for Rebekah . |
| 6 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 7 | He was the first person who 'd ever really bothered about her . |
| 8 | All 59 had been classified as economic migrants rather than genuine political refugees , and the majority were " double backers " who had previously voluntarily returned with financial assistance from the UN , but had fled Vietnam a second time . |
| 9 | But the remarkable thing is that three years ago Euravia did n't exist at all — except in the mind of its founder , Denis Mendoros , who had only lately arrived from his native Greece . |
| 10 | The former ANC president Oliver Tambo , who had only partially recovered from a stroke , was given the largely honorary position of national chairman . |
| 11 | It was a comfortable victory and encouraging to see Macdonald , who had only just arrived in Australia to replace Stuart Reid , doing so well so soon . |
| 12 | The new Minister , Idris Wakil , who had only recently come from Zanzibar to join the new Cabinet after the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar , explained the reason for the new Ministry. : |
| 13 | But when Dr Neil Cochrane returned to the business of Miss Sally-Anne McAllister who had so strangely arrived in his home he was as firmly pressing of her as he was before . |
| 14 | I could so easily have divided Charlie 's six per cent between Sal , Grace , and that awful Kitty , who had so obviously lied about her brother 's death . |
| 15 | With Madonna he bought himself a whole new audience , kids under 21 who had never even heard of him . |
| 16 | Though impulsive in some ways , she was an ordinary , practical girl who had never really believed in grand passion or love at first sight . |
| 17 | Lanier , 66 , was a wealthy white property developer who had never before run for public office . |
| 18 | he advanced above three hundred debased field negroes who had never before moved without the whip to a state resembling that of contented , honest and industrious servants and after paying them for their labour , tripled the annual neat [ sic ] clearance of his Estate . |
| 19 | When he had first come to Maythorpe House as an ignorant thirteen-year-old who had never before lived in anything grander than a tiny gardener 's cottage , he had felt awed and frightened , and unable to grasp that this huge place was now his home . |
| 20 | Hassan , who was usually with him in Abu Dhabi as well as England , manoeuvred into the rear seat of the Mercedes and I took my place beside the young son who had long since graduated into a licensed driver . |
| 21 | He announced this to the Liberal ministers who had once again congregated in 10 , Downing Street . |
| 22 | In fact people who have never even heard of contraception and have never stepped inside a family planning clinic still plan their families . |
| 23 | They are standing ln for the WRAC Staff Band Who are away on an important engagement in Eastbourne and Who have only recently returned from a tour in BAOR . |
| 24 | You read CVs relating to head chefs who have only ever worked in pubs ; CVs of head chefs well experienced in take-aways ; you read the CV of the head chef of a 350 room hotel in an inner city who is seeking employment overseas ; and you have a CV which looks quite familiar . |