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

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1 Since then , it has rather dropped out of sight , especially after the ECJ in Cases 144 and 145/87 , Berg and Busschers v Besselsen [ 1988 ] ECR 2559 had seemed to adopt the analysis that the transfer of the contract of employment was compulsory as to both employer and employee .
2 The catering manager at Butler 's contract is Neil Patterson — a chef who joined Compass six years ago and has since moved across into management .
3 Has since travelled extensively in Africa , India and South America .
4 Luca Cumani 's promising colt , Montendre ( next best 3.15 ) , got even closer to Welney at Yarmouth and has since won easily at Brighton .
5 Knowing my luck I 'll only be able to afford a weekend break in Bognor Regis , especially as my measly wage has only gone up by fourpence in the last two years .
6 Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles .
7 The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again .
8 He has not given up on health care .
9 But England has not done well in test matches lately — partly , the experts say , because neither one-day nor three-day games are a proper preparation for five-day tests .
10 There is a rapidly-growing belief in Italy that Sampdoria are ready to part company with England defender Walker because he has not lived up to expectations since joining them last summer .
11 There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( CI No 1,697 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement .
12 There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( UX No 39 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement .
13 Iceland , on the other hand , is located on a mid-oceanic ridge and consequently has not moved significantly with respect to its hot spot since the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean over 50 Ma BP .
14 At times we may realise that we ‘ know ’ something in our mind that has not come about through reasoning .
15 Andrew Lloyd Webber has not slept properly for weeks .
16 Black gravel shows the fish 's colours well , but has not caught on in Britain as much as in Europe .
17 ‘ While the Chris Hani case did have a tremendous impact on South Africa it has not taken away from investigations into the murders of Julie and Elizabeth . ’
18 He has not performed even at county level or in tests when he played before .
19 Some perfect and well scarred nut slots protect a tricky move into the final groove , which is bridged pleasantly to the top , always assuming your rope drag has not got out of control .
20 Is it not time , though , to ask whether all this heady ferment over a mere conductor — Abbado or any other — has not got out of hand ?
21 Overall , the lead time involved is something like 50 years , a figure that has not shortened appreciably throughout history .
22 Research into classroom interaction has not focused directly on children 's explanations .
23 The two fundamental assumptions underlying the plate tectonics model are that the surface area of the Earth has not changed significantly with respect to the rate of generation of new oceanic crust , and that there is a lack of internal deformation within plates compared to the relative motion between them .
24 Budgets for prisons have hardly kept pace with inflation , and , despite occasional lip-service commitment to reform , the policy of the British before 1947- to run gaols as cheaply as possible — has not changed significantly in practice ( Baxi 1982 ; Khan and Chilad 1982 ; Bhatacharya 1985 ; Gokhale and Sohoni 1988 ) .
25 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany .
26 Stimulus-response ( S-R ) psychology has largely gone out of fashion now , yet in its day it carried the field , and even now its influence is still felt .
27 Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size .
28 The modem newspaper horoscope has largely taken over from dream-books , although they are still published , and still draw largely on the works of Artemidorus ( or claim to ) .
29 After all this is the woman whose husband has just run off with Felicity Kendal .
30 The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here .
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