Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is all well and good until you go looking for a sound that the Quad will deliver only when the output level is quite a way up — at which point your mixer has long since run out of headroom . |
| 2 | Both of these recent releases from the duo 's Threshold House label tinker with material that has long since gone out of print in an attempt to create something else . |
| 3 | This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas . |
| 4 | Saying that Germany as a whole has not yet bottomed out of recession and that recovery could come in 1994 at the earliest , the management board chairman of IBM Deutschland GmbH said that the government 's solidarity pact to help recovery in the depressed east of Germany had been over-valued — ‘ The pact received praise I do n't think it deserved ’ Hans-Olaf Henkel said . |
| 5 | Paradoxically the miriad-mind is the ‘ I ’ mind , the mind which does not simply observe , but enters into the essence of other substances or beings , be they people , animals , things or even the ghosts and spirits , angels and demons , which Reason itself has not yet driven out of the world we experience in waking and sleeping , in loving and in hating . |
| 6 | Computer Associates International Inc has just about run out of available US software products companies to snap up , and now it has crossed the Atlantic , making landfall in Dublin , where it has bought the assets of C++ object-oriented C specialist Glockenspiel Ltd . |
| 7 | The three businesses comprise 60.9%-owned San Diego-based subsidiary GTI Corp , which makes magnetic components for the local area network market ; UK-based Zetex , a specialist analogue semiconductor manufacturer for the data storage market ; and Trend , which has now completely moved out of defence to concentrate on dedicated telecommunications test equipment . |
| 8 | Counterpoint of the fugato or canonic type was used as accompaniment in Baroque times , but has now largely fallen out of use , as it fails to express individual mood or atmosphere . |
| 9 | ‘ She has n't exactly gone out of her way to make anybody else happy , has she ? ’ |
| 10 | Are you sure it has n't just run out of petrol ? ’ |
| 11 | Of course , he 'd long since grown out of it . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've obviously just come out of a shower . ’ |
| 13 | You 've only just got out of bed , |
| 14 | ‘ I 've only just got out of bed . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've only just got out of it ! |
| 16 | I mean I 've only just come out of hospital and as it is I 'm still fairly well Macked with it . |
| 17 | ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago . |
| 18 | The windows have heavy moulded oak mullions mortised into massive oak sills and lintels , a reminder that in the heyday of the Lugg valley , medieval stone mullions had only recently gone out of fashion . |
| 19 | In the past , he had only ever spoken well of his mother , when he spoke of her at all . |
| 20 | His mouth was clasped to her breast but she had long since run out of milk to feed him . |
| 21 | She had long since grown out of her disco dingbat phase . |
| 22 | All landmarks that he knew had long since sunk out of sight beyond the rise . |
| 23 | The people who had not yet moved out of hospital showed no clear trend in their level of participation in meaningful activity , strengthening the case for attributing changes in the group that moved to the community services rather than passage of time or general improvement in all services . |
| 24 | The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake . |
| 25 | At twenty he had not quite grown out of the gangling stage either in the control of his long limbs or in the expression of his most deeply felt thoughts and emotions . |
| 26 | His sister had come over with her family from the next valley and was standing just behind him ; Shaun had flown home as well , a taller , broader Wayne-that-might-have-been , but he had n't yet come out of the church . |
| 27 | ‘ Let's just say I 'm about as helpful as you are practical — it would n't surprise me if you had n't just run out of petrol . ’ |
| 28 | A young woman who had evidently just got out of the Mini was approaching . |
| 29 | He dared not do so for he knew one thing for certain — that he had never really fallen out of love with this stunningly beautiful girl . |
| 30 | ‘ Not unpleasant , perhaps , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ but you have n't exactly gone out of your way to make me feel welcome — either here or back at the television studio . ’ |