Example sentences of "[noun pl] and have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " . |
| 2 | The amazing naked cat — the Canadian Sphynx — lacks both guard and awn hairs and has only a soft fuzz of down hairs on its extremities . |
| 3 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 4 | But , while this is broadly true , many do this within only general guidelines and have therefore an important , if subordinate , policy-making role . |
| 5 | He had done a reasonable amount of pilot work , firing for some of the older shunt link drivers and had also fired on the local ‘ pick-up ’ , but this at last was the real thing . |
| 6 | I can name you players who have over 50 caps and had only half a dozen good games and still keep getting picked . ’ |
| 7 | You will find that since Mr Madison 's British visitors left Washington , we have added a number of attractions and have greatly improved the roads . |
| 8 | Despite the scepticism which accompanied the launch of Pump technology and surrounded the whole concept of custom fit , it now has a strong band of converts and has even spawned a series of copycat technology among competitors . |
| 9 | Observers have simply failed to remark the scientific nature of much of the thinking of so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples and have perhaps overstated the ‘ scientific ’ nature of thinking in their own societies . |
| 10 | The drama for women , of course , is that we have been encouraged to become dependent and hold others in dependent relationships and have rarely sought to differentiate : womens ' groups can be as tyrannical as any other when they do not allow diversity and disagreement . |
| 11 | Mr Stillings , 59 , had been Rector of Trefnant for 18 months and had formerly been curate at Rhosymedre and Minera , Vicar of Bagillt and Rector of Llanfynydd . |
| 12 | She had lost three stones in four months and had extremely slim hips and thighs to prove it . |
| 13 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 14 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 15 | Several Q.T 's have joined us over the months and have greatly enjoyed getting to know the students and working with them . |
| 16 | Landowners have bought old farms for use as holiday homes and have then claimed planning permission to house local workers , provide employment and manage the land . |
| 17 | Population growth , the need for foreign currency earnings , and foreign aid have , in the past three or four decades , stimulated agricultural development in developing nations and have thus prompted environmental change . |
| 18 | He then made several shorter runs , which thereby accumulated fewer neutrons and had correspondingly larger uncertainties . |
| 19 | Leaving aside the famous names , which will inevitably be more costly , great numbers of obscure and humble folk have chosen this friendly and attractive method of identifying their precious books and have thereby secured a small niche in the history of bibliophily . |
| 20 | Inner London is dominated by teaching hospitals and medical schools and has traditionally taken in a significant number of patients from outside its area . |
| 21 | The bureau has been involved in several local residents ' campaigns for improved amenities and has also produced a report on racism in North Tyneside , aimed at persuading the local authority to look at its range of services within the borough . |
| 22 | At the same time , the Secretary of State has revealed his attitude to developments in his response to structure plan policies ; in many cases , while approving the general outline of the structure plans , he has also given more emphasis to permitting further development in rural areas and has substantially reduced the proposed limits for some green belts ( Elson 1981 ) . |
| 23 | We began with our partnership companies and have now moved on . |
| 24 | That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ . |
| 25 | It is clear that the Banks are preoccupied with keeping staffing to a minimum ; have no regard for retaining Key Posts and have totally disregarded Relief Staff . |
| 26 | One can only hope that we , as the panda 's worst enemy , can somehow right our wrongs and have finally learnt how much we have to lose . |
| 27 | They have played their part well in industry And in other directions and have also contributed largely on the National Savings Schemes . |
| 28 | Since December 1989 President Havel as head of state had visited 23 countries and had officially received 140 foreign guests . |
| 29 | In its 1991 annual report published on July 10 , the human rights organization Amnesty International claimed that human rights violations had occurred in 141 countries and had actually worsened in some cases . |
| 30 | With its large population and massive dependence on foreign exchange from oil exports Nigeria is regarded as the most vulnerable of the OPEC countries and has constantly battled to increase its production quota above the 1.3 million barrels per day laid down by OPEC . |