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

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1 No other wave since has deposited him in the river .
2 He also cared deeply for his sister , and their afternoon together had proved he had a sense of humour and could be a considerate and friendly companion .
3 oh my mum literally has had
4 When the chip is incorporated into a smart card and inserted into a mock up cash machine , the user only has to speak into a microphone to be recognized and given the cash .
5 Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him .
6 At this level BIS has encouraged co-operation through its conferences before and after main ALA conferences .
7 In a flash all has disappeared ’ , as the narrator realizes it was only a vision of his youth , now past ( ex.4 ) .
8 Most information is already printed on the form , and the retailer only has to add :
9 We 've got to recognise , if there was no following policy , any thief or drunk driver only has to put their toe down and drive away at speed , comfortable that police wo n't follow them and that is far more dangerous in the long run for the public .
10 The social scientist only has to live , and perhaps work , in a mental hospital or therapeutic community to experience the need for making sense of the words and actions of some people in these settings .
11 Hereford and Worcester has already voted for a similar ban , Northamptonshire 's decision only has to go to the full council , and Gloucestershire votes next week .
12 The camera was set to auto programme so the photographer only had to concentrate on focusing .
13 The situation is now so critical that the very structure that is needed to use the aid effectively has disintegrated .
14 The establishment of the mixed patrician-plebeian collegium of the Xviri sacris faciundis coincides with the full parification of the two orders in the Licinian-Sextian laws of 367 B.C. The members of the college presumably had to know some Greek if they were to consult the Sibylline books .
15 Why should the department suddenly have directed its policies to the benefit of the inner city ?
16 The Department of Trade and Industry alone has spent £1.5 billion in the past 10 years in the hon. Gentleman 's region , the success of which is shown by the success of local businesses and industry .
17 Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built .
18 The centre of Dixie 's shirt caves in instantly , as if a hidden mouth inside had sucked at it and vomited blood .
19 The Democrat Congressman Long has given full rein to his total unworthiness as a man and as a government functionary in his dealings with a country which is a friend to his government and to his nation .
20 The price of cobalt soared and the industry suddenly had to pour much time and money into redesigning the magnets in loudspeakers , using less expensive ceramic materials instead of cobalt .
21 The critic necessarily has to take a manifesto into account .
22 Because it is an interlocutory judgement it is usually heard before a master of the High Court , and a defendant only has to show a good arguable case for the plaintiff 's application to fail .
23 An educator only has to prevent one new HIV infection a year to save the NHS his or her entire salary in future AIDS treatment costs alone .
24 The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism .
25 However the homoeopathic physician will also administer a remedy , as well as giving a prescription for the antibiotic , with instructions that should the remedy not have worked within an hour or two , the antibiotic should be obtained .
26 Ireland prepared to face Cuba today ( 11.00 BST ) with the unenviable record of being the only side not to have scored a goal in the 12-team tournament .
27 Likewise the same range of factors as for industry generally has led to correspondingly poor performance in international terms .
28 ‘ We are the biggest club in football not to have had any recent success , but right now the city is rocking .
29 An unemployed actor went to his agent to complain about his agent not having found him any work in months .
30 The study thus had to tackle several methodological issues as well .
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