Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Stirling has yet to be convinced even by Samuel 's figure .
2 Although Ian Wright will be included and is likely to get another chance , Taylor has yet to be convinced he is the right man to play alongside the Blackburn striker .
3 She had obviously been well cared for throughout her illness — but then , Shiona had never for one moment doubted that .
4 Arriving in East Berlin at the height of the country 's most serious political crisis for more than three decades , Mr Gorbachev had earlier in the day , in a brief encounter with enthusiastic East Berliners , spoken of the need ‘ not to panic — that 's the most important thing ’ .
5 What he had loved about Sylvie had always in part been his inability to pin her down , to capture her .
6 Travis had enough on his plate just now without being asked to go against his promise to Rosemary to reveal nothing about her .
7 Under this alliance the Black Prince agreed to give Pedro help against his enemies , and the enemy whom Pedro had chiefly in mind was his illegitimate half-brother Henry of Trastâmara , who was in exile at the French court and was seeking French support for his designs upon the Castilian crown .
8 Quakers ' manager Ray Hankin has yet to be informed of the FA verdict but the punishment could only be a one-match ban .
9 Well of course , and er , and er Lithuania has right from the beginning er embarked on a , a sort of a campaign for independence in a most impeccably peaceful way .
10 Hedges as boundaries have not been invented , and England has yet to be enclosed by the landlords in neat and formal fields .
11 The Rio Group 's relationship with Cuba had yet to be resolved .
12 The drove-roads of England have yet to be identified and pieced together .
13 Thirty-five years later diplomatic relations with North Korea have yet to be established .
14 OSF says final contracts specifying who is responsible for re-working and integrating which pieces of DME have yet to be exchanged , although Tivoli Systems Inc boss Frank Moss says ‘ we now report to IBM , not OSF . ’
15 It says final contracts specifying who is responsible for re-working and integrating which pieces of DME have yet to be exchanged , although Tivoli Systems boss Frank Moss says ‘ we now report to IBM , not the Open Software Foundation . ’
16 A one-piece red culottes suit given by former Eastenders star Anita Dobson has still to be sold .
17 The loss of defensive co-ordinator Dave Wannstedet , to become the new head coach at Chicago has yet to be fully assessed but it was his planning that neutralised the Bills ' threat .
18 For example , the Allianz group in Munich has close to 25% of the Bavarian Hypo Bank , one of Germany 's biggest .
19 A successor at Corporation Road has yet to be appointed .
20 McCreery had already by the afternoon of that day recognised that the question of what should be done about the Croats posed a particular problem .
21 ‘ Mr Aycliffe had better post an advertisement to that effect , then , before I am burned at the stake ! ’
22 The only part of the globe not mentioned is the Antipodes , for Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander had not yet returned from their voyage with Captain Cook in the Endeavour and plants from Australia , New Zealand and the Pacific Islands had yet to be described .
23 The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation .
24 Louis had more in common with Carl than with Sam , Jerry or me .
25 The case against ITV had initially to be made against something that did not yet exist .
26 As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married .
27 A major conclusion of the workshop was that ‘ A biological impact by [ Cape fur ] seals on commercial fisheries in southern Africa has yet to be demonstrated . ’
28 Whether it will be launched in the UK has yet to be decided .
29 Prime Minister Amadou Cheiffou had earlier in the month held talks in Algiers with his Algerian counterpart , Sid-Ahmed Ghozali .
30 His position in England had to be secured , and early difficulties in Denmark , Thorkell , Olaf of Norway and Anund Jacob of Sweden had all to be overcome ; thus , not until 1028 did Cnut 's position in Scandinavia rival Swegen 's in 1013 .
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