Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economic situation in Zambia then and since has prevented any such ambitious project from being carried out . |
| 2 | The survey figures also suggest very clearly that the lack of really severe cold in any winter since has enabled many resident birds to maintain increased populations in woodland , although this may not be so in other habitats . |
| 3 | But no subject received more attention than Mathematics and no curriculum project then or since has received such massive support as the Entebbe programme and its successors . |
| 4 | The Open University 's Patterns for Living : Working Together has generated much interest in this area ( Open University 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Television is excellent for this , and Chomsky for long has had that great domain in which to show how governments and the big businesses linked to most television powers are very , very careful to be sure that few views are presented which violate the currently useful consensus . |
| 6 | A hard-to-define British artist , Long has attracted much attention in America with his use of stones and landscape . |
| 7 | The Mental Health Act 1983 's exclusion of compulsory admissions for alcohol detoxification alone has led many to believe that alcohol related mental health problems are outside the Act , but this is not the case . |
| 8 | It is a difference which explains why Britain alone has privatised most of her industry , whereas her neighbours have not ; and why she spends 1.1 per cent of her gross national product on industrial subsidies while her partners spend 3 to 4 per cent of theirs . |
| 9 | It 's just that Peake 's trilogy Titus Groan , Gormenghast and Titus Alone has attracted such a cult following that Glass was apprehensive about doing justice to the novels in the eye of fans . |
| 10 | But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world . |
| 11 | ‘ The publicity which rightly has surrounded this situation may have one good effect ; it draws our attention to the awful consequences of unemployment and business failures in our society ; and it reminds us of our genuine responsibilities towards the individuals and families damaged by this ; we must have care for our brothers and sisters in need . |
| 12 | Erm I think it 's really very sad that i it 's just the society we live in has put these kind of pressures on marriages and you know we 're all human and we can all be tempted to look at other people and be unfaithful but in those times of er you know temptation you just I well I I 've found that that 's where my faith comes in you 're sort of helped through those times . |
| 13 | ‘ We should perhaps have started this indoors , but my mother is there . |
| 14 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
| 15 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 16 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 17 | The bestowal of a right upon a third party gives rise to expectations on the part of that third party that the parties will act in conformity with the treaty in their relations with itself ; without necessarily having made any commitment of its own it will see itself as the beneficiary of the exchange of promises between the parties . |
| 18 | ‘ In the circumstances , it would have been folly to set up another [ earlier ] inquiry which would only have hindered those already in progress , ’ said JDS head Sir Anthony Wilson in a letter to the Independent . |
| 19 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 20 | The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it . |
| 21 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 22 | So having said that , I advise you , Aunt Ellen , to see to your own plans . ’ |
| 23 | So having got that figure er fixed in my mind that 's what we 'd like to go for but erm and we pay thirty percent commission on all advertising sales , whatever you do however many you sell , you will get thirty percent commission and you will get it the following week , providing you do one or two things for us . |
| 24 | So having got that first one out of the way |
| 25 | Besides , he had keys if he arrived while she was out , so he would wait for her , especially having come all the way from Hong Kong , she comforted herself , with a vague feeling that she was somehow cheating . |
| 26 | Among orthodox men of learning the biblical axiom that species are fixed entities established by God at the Creation gradually became qualified by the doctrine of plenitude , the Great Chain of Being , which declared that God , as artist creator , would necessarily have created all possible creatures in all possible worlds , and that the creatures which we now know on earth are but a fraction of those which exist in the universe . |
| 27 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 28 | Here Ipswich were unquestionably the better side , but Southend 's football was skilled enough to have beaten most teams in the Second Division . |
| 29 | Death happened — they were old enough to have acknowledged that . |
| 30 | Britain and America are worried enough to have produced enough serum to immunise their troops against anthrax , one of the biological agents he is most likely to have . |