Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps the recession has actually helped us , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Perhaps the artery 's just compressed . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps the woman had already met Jesus previously , had changed her immoral life , in so doing had realised that her sins had been forgiven and was now showing gratitude for this . |
| 4 | Or perhaps the car has really given up and it 's time for a new , or good second-hand one . |
| 5 | Perhaps the time had now come to change the emphasis to more efficient production . |
| 6 | Perhaps the time has now come for specialist monographs . |
| 7 | Perhaps the picture had already begun to look better . |
| 8 | SO THE eagle has now landed and flown ( ’ Did the Eagle really land ? ’ by Christy Campbell , April 5 ) . |
| 9 | So the University has carefully weighed all the intractable issues and decided the African National Congress and the communist party are the good guys and the Zulus are the bad guys , huh ? |
| 10 | Unemployment of registered disabled is always at a much higher rate than unemployment generally and so the recession has severely damaged the chances of large numbers of disabled people obtaining work . |
| 11 | So the state has no had to tighten up the law to cut the cost . |
| 12 | So the band has now decided to take control of its own future . ’ |
| 13 | Many of 1992 's events will be recorded so the Festival has therefore adopted the policy of not admitting late comers into the auditorium until there is a suitable break in the programme . |
| 14 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 15 | It was n't that the Captain had anything specific to ask him , but on the few occasions they had worked together the Marshal had always had something helpful to offer . |
| 16 | Yet somehow the message has still to get through to British Rail that the communication of travel information is no longer a luxury , to be fed in titbits to grateful passengers . |
| 17 | At one time he had intended a whole chapter of The Complete History of Wimbledon to be devoted to the issue of Maltby , but somehow the chapter had never materialized . |
| 18 | Well actually I live just outside Shilton. erm they keep saying that it 's Shilton airfield , actually it 's not on the airfield at all — as you will know , Mr. Hayworth 's got planning permission for a golf course on the airfield — it 's Scrubs Lane , Shilton , and actually they 've already the Council have already turned down two applications for caravan sites there anyway erm because it 's unsuitable and yet they think that they you know that it 's going to be suitable for gipsies to live down there . |
| 19 | Moreover the Spirit has ever played second fiddle to the male Christ within trinitarian theology . |
| 20 | The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced . |
| 21 | There 's also a market there for people who ca n't afford to buy new product , and obviously still the engine 's still got life in it . |
| 22 | On her way to the consultation she hesitated and turned off the path into the hazel thicket where yesterday the treasure had quietly nested . |
| 23 | Hence the parser has only to decide on the syntactic structure that can be made from combining these different parts of speech . |
| 24 | Traditionally the chain has always relied on hardware and ironmongery sales . |
| 25 | By now the helicopter had almost sunk . |
| 26 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |
| 27 | For months Weatherbury people had been discussing the party that Mr Boldwood was going to give just before Christmas , and now the day had finally arrived . |
| 28 | Thirty five years later servicemen who were forced to witness the test say they are still suffering physical and mental side-effects.So far the government has consistently denied a positive link between the two . |
| 29 | I want to check downstairs to see just how far the water has now risen , ’ Maggie said . |
| 30 | So far the group has systematically visited all wards and departments in the Mental Health Trust as part of the quality monitoring arrangements , identified a number of quality improvement priorities and commented on quality measures in the specification which has led to revisions . |