Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Police have so far adopted a watching waiting game … vastly outnumbered … they hoped they would gradually leave of their own accord … earlier this month … |
| 2 | Foreign investment banks have so far made a big chunk of their profits from earning high interest on the 10 billion won ( $12.6m ) they must deposit to do business . |
| 3 | My heart pounds , and my throat closes up with fear when this happens , but they have so far beaten a hasty retreat after a selection of Anna 's words , not to be found in any A-level vocabulary book that I 've ever seen . |
| 4 | The children sit for normal exams at the local school and have so far maintained a necessary standard . |
| 5 | I have only once seen a serious fight between badgers , and the sounds on that occasion were terrifying . |
| 6 | The locals have obviously never tried a good pint of 6X ; how can they drink this stuff ? |
| 7 | Austria , Denmark , Germany , the Netherlands and Norway have already unilaterally imposed a 1 January 1995 deadline , and the German chemical industry federation , VCI , has called for a uniform phaseout timetable to be adopted by all signatories to the Montreal Protocol , who will be meeting in Copenhagen later this year . |
| 8 | However , accountants , who also ought to be concerned with the concepts of accountability listed under Divisions I and II , have not traditionally played a major role . |
| 9 | IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SENT A DIRECT DEBIT FORM TO THE COUNCIL , YOU SHOULD PAY THE APRIL INSTALMENT IN CASH OR BY CHEQUE . |
| 10 | The Salvadorean women 's organizations which support the FDR-FMLN have not yet formed a united front , although there have been several initiatives in that direction and a growing recognition of the need to do so . |
| 11 | Fitting must be precise , and in the case of young children who have not yet developed a firm bridge to the nose this can be difficult . |
| 12 | However , British Rail have not yet developed a suitable systematic approach for predicting the demand for new , or radically improved services . |
| 13 | Similarly , young emerging leaves and shoots that have not yet developed a tough skin are easier for fungus spores to penetrate as they are for sucking and biting insects , and this is why the first signs of mildew especially are always to be found on such tissue . |
| 14 | But because EC ministers have not yet agreed a common regime on irradiated food , it can now be put on sale in countries which do not allow food irradiation ( such as Germany and Luxembourg ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It was not what I expected , but I have not yet had a real chance to find out what went wrong . |
| 16 | The information is duff partly because the polls have not yet found a reliable way to deal with non-voters , or with Do n't Knows ( who may become Do Knows on election day ) . |
| 17 | Though we have not yet attained a full system of compulsory registration , we may be said to be moving , surely and at an increasing pace , in that direction . |
| 18 | New converts , on the other hand , have no such problems because pre-Christian experience is still fresh in their mind and they communicate their faith in an everyday language because they have not yet learned a new jargon . |
| 19 | That is very different from the approach of the Government , who have not only abandoned a serious commitment to training , but have suggested that sectors do not have a valuable role to play . |
| 20 | Individual properties and relations have been with us since Aristotle , and have had the support of such diverse philosophers as Peirce and Stout , but they have not always got a good name . |
| 21 | But they have not usually involved a direct challenge to the principle of democracy : that has ceased to be a politically acceptable position in most parts of the world . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you know , ’ he said , ‘ in all my stay here I have hardly ever seen a Russian soldier . ’ |
| 23 | Drinking is caught up in this debate because of the health and social problems associated with alcohol abuse — even though these problems have probably always affected a small minority of people in most societies . |
| 24 | ‘ You have n't exactly had a peaceful birthday ! ’ she 'd reminded Laura , who 'd smiled as she had recalled the twins ' boundless energy , which had left the two adults feeling quite exhausted at the end of the day . |
| 25 | I have n't even mentioned a single detail of the Mattli collection . ’ |
| 26 | I have n't really taken a full part in the congress . |
| 27 | over round the left hand side in the first place , but she must have been in the wrong so they must have seen it as well , they have n't really got a strong case so they threw it out of court and last week he had a letter , he opened it , from the , from the court , and he thought oh gawld here we go again , he 's got jury service , oh |
| 28 | Farmers say in previous years the public have n't always got a fair deal , as Simon Garrett reports |
| 29 | But the celebrations in the Diaspora and in the Yishuv have very often had a different spirit behind them . |
| 30 | Secondly , we have ‘ unnatural ’ recordings , in which original sounds ( or in some cases electrical waveforms which have never even had a separate acoustic existence ) are subject to processes which make them into something new . |