Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This point means that the stop line has been obliterated by mud , snow or rain etc. or has worn away .
2 Erm in nineteen fourteen , erm 's , who had a water turbine er as their sort of main motive power for their er milling operations , erm put in or had had , er not only this line , siding , but they had one put in round the back here , erm because that was to provide coal , for steam boilers which were er put in to augment the water power .
3 At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather .
4 It is far easier to let the fry feed naturally than to have to mess around with infusorians .
5 It was often used simply to mean a situation better than had prevailed before the war and it had a powerful if vague appeal .
6 ‘ You should know me better than to have to ask that . ’
7 However , it is an awful lot better than having to go out to DOS each time , so I still recommend it .
8 It was their talk on the cliff-top as the sun had gone down that had changed it all .
9 Obviously that had occurred to him too .
10 Can I ask erm what 's happening to the Harlow Playhouse based Youth theatre cos obviously that has left a big gap in performances cos there 's nothing in this programme .
11 So that had to go back and I had to find my Visa card much to the annoyance of people queuing behind me .
12 Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients
13 Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running .
14 Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness .
15 It was not the beauty alone that had made me draw in my breath .
16 Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future .
17 Turnout was in the region of 30 to 35 per cent of the 4,700,000 electorate , less than had voted in October 's presidential elections in which President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , Africa 's longest-serving head of state , was returned for a seventh five-year term [ see p. 37767 ] .
18 We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ .
19 In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team .
20 In any case Kent County Council is concerned that they do not go far enough and has produced its own traffic strategy designed to reduce the pressure on smaller roads .
21 Going Rates In recent years most SCE entrants have attained grades A , A , A , B , B or better and have returned for a sixth year at school .
22 But one local craftsman has gone one stage better and has made is own time piece .
23 It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill .
24 The deathbed scene ; the funeral ; the sadness of friends , and the smugness of certain relations who never liked you much and have outlived you ( just wait till my will is read ! ) .
25 The booklet is revised annually and has become widely recognised as one of the best guides available for local groups .
26 I had heard my mother and Robert come in and had gone to sleep much later .
27 Her red dress had not been made to walk in and had seen better days .
28 Indeed , so shaken was she that , without being fully aware of what she was doing , she had invited him in and had led the way into her sitting-room before she had got herself back together again .
29 It was only after we had settled in and had sorted out our luggage that we realised that although it was still broad daylight , our watches told us that it was nearly two o'clock in the morning !
30 Because some people came in and had offered sixty , that 's what I was told , the last lot that came in had offered sixty .
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