Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This is much less systematic than the others described above , and has little claim to be representative at all . |
2 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
3 | And the child storms off in fury because you do n't understand , and because this activity you billed as ‘ fun ’ has suddenly ceased to be any fun at all . |
4 | The riff at the beginning of This Charming Man has just got to be one of the best guitar riffs ever ! |
5 | Huge sums will soon have to be spent to relieve road congestion ; persuading a proportion of the public to travel by a convenient alternative has already proved to be cheaper than building more roads in many areas . |
6 | Mr Kohl 's glossy coating of the bitter pill of economic union undoubtedly won him votes , but the coating has already proved to be thin . |
7 | To apply these characteristics as the criterion for dismissal or refusal to employ is to apply a gender-based criterion , which the majority of the House of Lords has already held to be unlawful direct discrimination in James v Eastleigh Borough Council [ 1990 ] 2 AC 751 . |
8 | Since the World War II , it has gradually changed from being selective , non-selective and then selective again , according to the Government and has been used as a great political tool . |
9 | Mr Bell , aged 39 , of Oakley Gardens , West Auckland , said he has always tried to be polite during his 17 years as a driver . |
10 | Another reason why language teaching has traditionally tended to be atomistic and bottom-up is that it has followed the historical development and procedures of linguistics . |
11 | The language used in Synod has often proved to be less than gentlemanly . |
12 | This section on internal buildings has necessarily covered a considerable amount of very detailed information and has inevitably had to be selective . |
13 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
14 | It has regularly proved to be one of the most popular options . |
15 | McCarley and Hobson , in an analysis of Freud 's psychological theory , have pointed out how deeply was his psychology informed by these neurological assumptions , which subsequent science has frequently shown to be wrong . |
16 | Particularly with the the s the strong belief that the flats were going to come down which has subsequently proved to be true . |
17 | But until this has actually proved to be possible — and Jakobson would have denied that it is — it seems reasonable to accept that both kinds of equivalence constitute a distinguishing feature , if not of all poetic language , at least of a great deal of it . |
18 | At the same price as your traditional cab and twice as speedy , riding pillion has never looked like being such a good bet . |
19 | The aristocracy , for its part , has never needed to be convinced of the importance of not working . |
20 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
21 | ‘ I 'd kinda hoped to be alone here tonight . |
22 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
23 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
24 | The question which teachers rated their pupils as having had most experience with was 112 - : 7 ; 71 per cent of pupils in the sample were said to have had " frequent experience , including this term " of this kind of item . |
25 | ‘ They 've obviously got to be able to speak to people at all levels , ’ said a supervisor of his field men . |
26 | We 've all got to be healthy enough to challenge the situation . |
27 | At the same time she had fiercely wanted to be proud of Phoebe , to support Phoebe 's admirable fight on her behalf . |
28 | If Eliot had only managed to be funnier , some had come to feel , he would also have been more accurate . |
29 | He had obviously decided to be pleasant to her . |
30 | The fact that the cold war lasted so much longer than the economic idyll meant that Americans never adjusted to the fact that , economically , their country had long ceased to be able to deliver the annual increase in prosperity they had come to consider a birthright . |